DumoLab

BagasSERIES Awarded Second Place !!!
This hyperlocal project was selected from our 7325 Seminar on Biomaterial Architectures to compete at BioDesignChallenge and was presented to 200 people at MoMA today. Very proud of our team!!!

BagasSERIES reimagines local waste transformation into open-air market supporting products through material innovation and community collaboration. Centered at Philadelphia’s historic FDR’s Park vibrant Southeast Asian Market (SEA), the project identifies an opportunity to address bagasse waste produced daily by the many sugarcane juicing stands. To better understand this waste stream as well as park user and vendor needs, we engaged local agents with interviews and on-site research. The outcome is a catalog of biocomposite-based products made from hyperlocal organic waste collected directly from the market and transformed using non-toxic binders and low energy manufacturing. These products not only contribute to waste reduction but also serve meaningful and practical purposes of signaling, resting, wrapping, or paving, for the local SEA community.

Team: Yuanyi Cen (MLA’24), Kodak Han .tianqi (MArch ‘25), Simone Yang (MArch ‘25), Chun Zhou (MArch ‘25), Dr Laia Mogas-Soldevila.

Host: Southeast Asian Market Association at FDR Park, Philadelphia.

Blast from the past last Tuesday at N52 lecturing for MIT’s DASD 10 years after TAing it! Many thanks and for our conversation across scales and disciplines!

✨Blood-Air-Sugar✨ For our matrixes week at “7325 Biomaterial Architectures” we investigated animal blood and mango leathers, aerogel balls, chitosan, pectin, and alginate prints; while discussing projects and discoveries at the intersection of art, science, and engineering.

In our first session of “7325 Biomaterial Arch” we dwelled into some ✨animal-produced biological matter✨ able to inform design of new bio composites.
With the we explored dyes from mollusk glands and bug skeletons, keratin from shell, fur, and nail, silk fibroin and serecin from moth cocoons, and milk casein turned into fabric. Excellent semester start!