Print Email Facebook Twitter Crafting Materials During COVID-19 Title Crafting Materials During COVID-19: The Locked-Down Material Lab Author Duarte Poblete, Sofia Soledad (Politecnico di Milano) Bolzan, Patrizia (Politecnico di Milano) Parisi, S. (TU Delft Materials and Manufacturing) Rognoli, Valentina (Politecnico di Milano) Date 2022 Abstract Lately, designers have become deeply interested in the materials generation process. With an approach of transforming unconventional elements into possible materials, they discover many possibilities with new characteristics ready to explore. This article discusses a study proposing concepts of materials generation, focusing on self-production in a pandemic context of domestic isolation and resource limitations. It follows the Do-It-Yourself Materials approach to create homemade samples (organic waste-based) and the experience-based method called Material Driven Design (to search for new insights in the material samples) as a framework. The research presents some tools to measure and understand possible new materials. It evaluates the materials experience generated in users when using unconventional sources for their creation and shares some information to get a more straightforward path when choosing to work with an experimental approach to developing alternative materials. Subject Materials designDIY-MaterialsMaterials ExperienceCOVID-19 To reference this document use: http://resolver.tudelft.nl/uuid:a342c762-8b3c-4bf8-a9f1-ef266a8c07a1 DOI https://doi.org/10.30682/diid7722l ISSN 1594-8528 Source DIID - Disegno Industriale industrial design (77), 140-150 Part of collection Institutional Repository Document type journal article Rights © 2022 Sofia Soledad Duarte Poblete, Patrizia Bolzan, S. Parisi, Valentina Rognoli Files PDF document_1.pdf 1.42 MB Close viewer /islandora/object/uuid:a342c762-8b3c-4bf8-a9f1-ef266a8c07a1/datastream/OBJ/view