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BagasSEAT 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 will explore 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.
Team: Yuanyi Cen (MLA'24 @cenyyc_), Bhavana Balasubramanian (MSD '24 @_bbhav_ana), Dr Laia Mogas-Soldevila, PI, and DumoLab Director @dumolab
Host: South East Asian Market Association at FDR Park, Philadelphia @seamarket_fdrpark
Sponsors: DumoLab Research @dumolab and Sachs Grant for Arts Innovation @sachgrants