
Bio, bio, bio!
From furniture to the automotive industry, natural materials are increasingly trying to reclaim application spaces hitherto firmly occupied by synthetic materials. Both large companies and start-ups explore this area in search of new possible raw materials, through experiments with increasingly interesting results.
Materially has dedicated two specific events to this theme: “Vivarium”, in collaboration with TotalTool, which brought research and applications of bio-based materials to the spaces of the Brera Academy, placing an emphasis on their educational potential; and Cooking is Real, proposed by Interface and Worksociate, in which teams of architects challenged each other in the creation of moodboards of materials related to the world of food.


Toyota Boshoku Design Center, tudies of Kenaf application in automotive interiors
Finally, even the world of furniture and fittings welcomes these stimuli: great space was given to bio materials in the Interzum Trend Forum, with a collection of materials produced starting from agricultural, food, industrial waste, from shells, up to innovative applications of traditional materials such as cork.
