🫒 REolivar, making biomaterials from olive pits

REolivar is a project by Silvana Catazine and Josean Vilar of Naifactory LAB, created in response to the open cal,l Remix el Barrio by SISCODE - El Barri Circular, to reimagine what is possible to make with locally produced food waste. Silvana and Josean used olive pits to create a new flexible biomaterial which can be shaped and used in a variety of creative ways. This recipe is easy to follow and with the right ingredients and equipment can be done in your home kitchen!

✍️Ingredients:
700ml water
24g agar
20g glycerin
40g olive pits

✍️Equipment:
Cooking pot
Scale
Spatula
Shredder
Fabric
Frame

SISCODE is an EU research project consisting of 10 labs and makerspaces across Europe – ‘El Barri Circular’ being the pilot of Fab Lab Barcelona. Remix El Barrio, an initiative from El Barri Circular, looks to understand how we might reimagine food waste in our local neighbourhood of Poblenou. This highlighted recipe is one of nine featured during an exhibition of designers and makers transforming food waste into new biomaterials. At Fab Lab Barcelona, our research areas look to further explore the role of maker spaces in creating a more circular economy - thinking global, acting local.

👀Check our some of our related research and education programs below.

👉SISCODE- El Barri Circular: https://fablabbcn.org/projects/siscod...
👉SISCODE - Remix el Barrio: https://fablabbcn.org/projects/siscod...
👉Exposición Remix el Barrio: https://fablabbcn.org/calendar/exposi...
👉Biomaterials 101 Blog Post: https://fablabbcn.org/blog/emergent-i...
👉Fabricademy: https://fablabbcn.org/education/acade...

The project receives funding from the European Union’s Horizon 2020 under grant agreement No 788217.

To read more about this project and other Fab Lab Barcelona initiatives around bio-materials, check out our latest blog post here:
https://fablabbcn.org/blog/emergent-i...