Invasive Material with Atelier Luma
Le club des plantes invasives (or invasive species club) project within the Workshop focuses on the recovery of the uprooting of invasive species in order to reduce their transformation into waste to be eliminated. So-called invasive plants are generally exotic plants that supplant other species because they do not have a predator and their method of reproduction allows them to spread more quickly.
It turns out that most of these plants are loaded with cellulose, about 20%, so with the help of Trajna, a Slovenian association, a process of transformation into paper pulp is possible by adding wood cellulose for a 50/50 ratio. However, it must be admitted that this paper pulp does not have the capacity to replace pulp from the wood industry and that this should in no way be the purpose of this material.
Thanks to the research carried out on this dough, I was able to conclude what would be its advantages and constraints once transformed. About 10 different dough processing techniques will have been used producing ready-to-use semi-finished products for some. It is therefore a material that seems necessary to me in the process of thinking about bio-sourced materials.
We therefore find ourselves questioning the place of paper and pulp, the need to be bleached, its very limited use in the world of volume and obviously the tools used to transform/modify.
