BagaSEAT is a modular urban furniture set with seat tops made of bagasse waste from sugarcane juicing at Philadelphia's historic FDR’s Park community vibrant Southeast Asian Market. This hyper-local transformation gives new life to unavoidable food market waste turning it into seasonal biocomposite seating.
On August 24th, 2024, a pop-up event explored the process of turning food waste into biomaterials through an interactive and playful installation offering a fresh perspective on material use and reimagining materiality and temporality of everyday products. Led by Yuanyi Cen, a graduate Landscape student at Penn and DumoLab researcher, and, similar to our recent CanoPIT work, this project gives new life to food waste turning it into functional seasonal objects.
On January 2025, the stools travelled to the west coast to be exhibited at the "Pioneering Biomaterials Symposium: Academia and Industry Accelerator" by CCA Architecture and Autodesk Research (https://pioneeringbiomaterials.com)
Team: Yuanyi Cen (MLA'24), Bhavana Balasubramanian (MSD '24), Dr Laia Mogas-Soldevila.
Host: South East Asian Market Association at FDR Park, Philadelphia
Sponsors: DumoLab Research and Sachs Grants for Arts Innovation
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