Famae Award
In May 2018, Famae awarded Precious Plastic 300.000€ to further develop the project.
Exactly 112 people came to Eindhoven to craft Precious Plastic Version 4. Living and working together. For 15 consecutive months.
In May 2018, Famae awarded Precious Plastic 300.000€ to further develop the project.
The city of Eindhoven invited Precious Plastic to work in a huge workspace in the centre of the city. Free of charge. Epic.
We lived communally in 10 houses about to be demolished. Living together. Like a (weird) family. With the occasional parties.
More than one hundred super skilled and qualified people came to work on Precious Plastic. Dedicating their time to the project. Unpaid. To push the project further. Heroes.
We followed a plant-based diet for the duration of the entire project as we see this as the most sustainable way of sourcing our energies. No one died. And it tasted delicious.
People poured in from around the world to develop Version 4. Skilled designers, engineers, developers and helpers volunteered up to 16 months to make it happen. Hats off.
18 months
Strategy, design and web. From dreaming Version 4 in Portugal to clicking that final upload button.
12 months
Land scouting in Portugal, community stalking and social media, documenting and moderating, and distributing hugs and smiles.
18 months
Developing business tools and business models for people to use when getting started.
14 months
Plastics research, Maldives pilot project, V4 starterkit workspace design, sometimes bread.
3 months
Product design on the extrusion and injection. Now in Kenya making recycled baskets.
14 months
Machine building, product designer (and a little bit of kitchen time)
3 months
Developing the business tools for the V4 launching to help the Precious Plastic Community to develop economically sustainable projects.
10 months
Observing human behaviour from an experimental sustainable plant based kitchen.
14 months
Coding, maintaining & organizing the development of the new Precious Plastic community platform.
6 months
Styrofoam recycling research and product design with the injection machine (Carabiner).
14 months
Coordinate 100 volunteers accommodation, part time photographer, international mama.
6 months
Developing low cost sensor for plastic identification for manual and Automatic sorting, hacking and improving firmware and electronics for v4 machines.
2 months
Feeding the community & exploring sheet press development, testing and improving machines.
14 months
UX design for the V4 Community Platform + working on the V4 Academy.
5 months
Setting up and running a collection Point, sometimes princess.
8 months (part-time)
Helping the digital team making the platform a better platform.
13 months
Researching into biodegradable alternatives to plastic / “making gross stuff” :)
3 months
Set up a zero waste corner, decorate cozy workspace with plenty of wall painting.
14 months
Research about plastic, design and build workspaces, and taking the firsts steps towards Project Kamp.
13 months
Shaping the “collection point” and doing research into synthetic textiles.
14 months
Research about plastic, building a washing system, working in the fashion tent, cooking sometimes, little product design.
13 months
Coordinating the product design team and researching techniques to process recycled plastic.
13 months
Illustrator, service designer and responsible amongst other things for all the Precious Plastic doodles.
13 months
Cooking for all the lovely people, being in charge with all the birthday cakes.
15 months (remote)
Designing and building the v4 extruder, testing coordination and project management.
7 months
Developed the Precious Plastic and One Army visual identity, and curated both Dutch Design Week Exhibitions.
15 months
Made the CNC machined injection moulds for the v4 project. Build a concept for a speaker made from recycled plastic and developed a first iteration of a v4 shredder.
6 months (remote)
Developing business tools such as the action plan and the calculator. Supporting strategic decision making
6 months
Helped design the recycled brick, related building methods and a quick release system.
6 months
Setting up zero waste kitchen, cooking delish vegan meals :)
2 months
Ideas, tests, sheet press, boatbuilding.
7 months
Fresh & dry food supplier, cooking vegan kitchen, growing plants & veggies. Assist coordination & accomodation, facilitate PlasticForGood challenge.
4 months
Experimenting with plastic films, research on synthetic textile waste.
6 months
Worked alongside the product design team, designing colour recipes for V4 products, and along side collection team, organising material and offcuts created by designers.
11 months
Focus on plastic sheet production and design. Also in Panama for plastic plate project.
11 months
Being part of this amazing movement by feeding the army.
3 months
Researched and designed products and processes. Co-designed the V.4 geodesic dome.
4 months
Designed and organised the exhibition for Dutch Design Week together with the amazing Charlotte Allen. After that, I helped coordinating the photo team and documentation process.
5 months
Worked on the BRICK project with Rory Dickens (Recycle_Rebuild). Designed and developed the ROBOTICS research-box with Bradford Johnson for DDW’19.
5 months
Helped in running daily operations in the workspace. Ran tests on the extruder and shredder. Designed a baby chair exploring multibending techniques.
3 months
Worked on the Shelving system with Ana. Designed and developed methods of making custom moulds for the T shaped beam with the extrusion machine.
9 months
Designed, built and tested several prototypes and the final design of the Shredder Pro.
1 months
Coding of new community platform and helping the Precious Plastic UK community.
7 months
Organising volunteer accommodation, managing finances, writing blog posts & how-tos.
6 months
Cold press sheet press system design and prototyping and testing.
3 months
Designing and testing molds and recipes using food waste for Beyond Plastic.
3 months
V.4 Sheetpress Team Designer and Fabricator.
3 months
Designed and manufactured the double axis Shredder Pro prototype (mechanics and electronics).
6 months
Managing finances, set-up projects and legal stuff.
Hundreds of people supported us with monthly donations throughout the year. We're humbled by so much love and support.
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