STFI-Packforsk and the University College of Arts Crafts and Design (Konstfack) are participating jointly in the Milan Furniture and Design Fair on 18-23 April. Researchers at STFI-Packforsk are developing renewable composite materials and are working in close collaboration with designers in order to exploit the unique qualities of the new materials.,
,“The collaboration has been going on for a couple of years,” says Mikael Lindström, Research Manager at STFI-Packforsk.,,“The outcome is, among other things, a fruitful dialoge where the design students, who are looking for new materials to work with, achieve knowledge of the possibilities and limitations of the materials. As researchers, we can see the materials in new dimensions, and gain a better insight into which qualities are important to a designer and, in the end, the user of the product.”,
,Two of the students participating in the Milan fair are Farvash Razavi, student at the Interior and Furniture Department of the University College of Arts Crafts and Design (Konstfack) in Stockholm, and Nandi Nobell, studying Fashion at Central St Martin College of Art & Design in London. They are working in The New Materials and Composites group at the Division of Packaging and Logistics for one year in the cluster New fibres for new Materials. They have designed a ‘Kofes’*, a demonstrator that shows the possibilities with the moulded cellulose fibre reinforced with polylactide material developed within the project and on stand at Milan. ,,For further information:,Contact Mikael Lindström, mikael.lindstrom@stfi.se, or on +46-(0)8-676 7433,,www.stfi-packforsk.se,,,,*) ‘Kofes’ is an old word describing the wooden objects carved by the navvies when they had nothing else to do. It does not depict anything and does not look like anything else.,,
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