Aivan Pushes Sustainable Design's Limits with Korvaa
Finnish studio Aivan facilitates one of the more impressive sustainable material explorations and it proves the viability of its findings through a pair of eco-friendly headphones.
Dubbed 'Korvaa,' the product highlights an engaging approach to manufacturing that utilizes a combination of microbially grown substances. Succeeding in the quest for a balanced relationship between biology and engineering, the eco-friendly headphones boast six different biologically derived materials.
To built the over-ear audio device, Aivan utilized trichoderma reesei — a fungus, mycelium from phanerochaete chrysosporium, yeast, spider silk, cellulose, as well as a cellulose-mycelium composite.
The eco-friendly headphones have been built in a tentative collaboration between Aivan, the VTT Technical Research Centre of Finland and Aalto University. The goal was to create a three-dimensional object that boasts the benefits of bioplastic and seeks to "showcase the potential [...] of synthetic biology."
Dubbed 'Korvaa,' the product highlights an engaging approach to manufacturing that utilizes a combination of microbially grown substances. Succeeding in the quest for a balanced relationship between biology and engineering, the eco-friendly headphones boast six different biologically derived materials.
To built the over-ear audio device, Aivan utilized trichoderma reesei — a fungus, mycelium from phanerochaete chrysosporium, yeast, spider silk, cellulose, as well as a cellulose-mycelium composite.
The eco-friendly headphones have been built in a tentative collaboration between Aivan, the VTT Technical Research Centre of Finland and Aalto University. The goal was to create a three-dimensional object that boasts the benefits of bioplastic and seeks to "showcase the potential [...] of synthetic biology."
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Sustainable Material Exploration — Disruptive innovation opportunity: Develop new manufacturing processes and products using microbially grown substances to create sustainable materials.
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Synthetic Biology Showcases — Disruptive innovation opportunity: Use synthetic biology to create three-dimensional objects with the benefits of bioplastic.
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Consumer Electronics — Disruptive innovation opportunity: Incorporate sustainable materials into the manufacturing of headphones and other electronic devices.
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Design and Manufacturing — Disruptive innovation opportunity: Embrace sustainable design practices and integrate biology and engineering in the manufacturing process.
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