London Design Gold

2025

Art of Earth Care: Crafting Bioceramics from Kitchen Scraps

Entrant

Wenjia Sun

Category

Service Design - Art & Design

Client's Name

Eggshellshire(Fictional Brand)

Country / Region

Taiwan

In a world seeking harmony with nature, we invite you to a gentle practice of transformation. This material kit is more than a craft it is a quiet ecological promise to our planet, turning kitchen waste eggshells into vessels of enduring beauty and environmental justice.

Your Journey of Gentle Creation:

1. A Loving Cleanse: Tenderly wash or boil your eggshells, then bake them to purity and dryness.

2. Alchemy of lngredients: Grind the shells into a soft, white powder, then blend it with the natural sodiumalginate we provided and water into a smooth paste.

3. The Artist's Touch: With a spatula, lovingly apply this earth-born composite onto our 3D-printedscaffold, coating every curve.

4. Patient Formation: Allow your creation to air-dry for 1-2 days, a slow dance with time that yields aunique, artisanal piece.

These 100% food-safe tableware-a daily reminder of your ecological commitment. When its first service concludes, it embarks on a final, gracious return: nestle a seedling in it, providing lasting nourishment, or simply bury it in the earth, where it will dissolve gently back into the soil, completing a perfect cycle of earth care. This project is a Future Material research project for a fictional brand.

Credits

University Researcher
Wenjia Sun
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