How can everyday waste become a translucent, light-catching material?

Circles of Peel

Linda Enrich

Student
Linda Enrich
Academic staff
Aart van Bezooijen
Course
DIY Material Kits
Program
MA Eco-Social Design
Semester
2024/25 WS

Circles of Peel invites you to turn everyday waste, like onion peels, into a sustainable, biobased material. This project combines creativity and environmental awareness, showing how waste can become a valuable resource. With this DIY kit, you’ll transform onion peels into a flexible, translucent material that can be used to create customizable curtains. 

Inside the kit, you'll find everything you need to create your own material from onion peels. Once made, this material can be used to design a curtain that interacts with light, casting dynamic, ever-changing patterns in your space. 

This project encourages you to rethink food waste by turning what would typically be discarded into something functional and beautiful. Explore your creativity and see where your designs take youCircles of Peel is all about turning waste into something creative and sustainable!

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The DIY-kit

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The material and the booklet with the guide

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The exhibition setup in the FabLab

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The material with a high amount of red

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The material with a lower amount of red

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The kit

A project made in the course

DIY Material Kits

Orange peels, peanut shells, avocado seeds, the daily consumption of our favorite foods often goes together with leftovers. What if we give food waste a second life? Taking scraps as the starting point to create something new? With these Do-It-Yourself (DIY) Material Kits we document and share our hands-on research with recipes to inspire and enable (future) applications.
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