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Develop a personal tool that transforms your craft in a meaningful way. 
This tool needs to be relevant to your personal practice and the bigger context of your craft.

MY CRAFT

The essence of my craft is to investigate the characteristics of materials and to make use of transforming, moving characteristics of a material.
I'm moved and astonished by materials that can't be controlled, that live their own live. That's why I'm interested in Bio Design.
Examples of experiments with moving and natural materials.

I'm going to develop a tool that enables other people to see materials the way I see them.
I want to integrate the basics of Bio Design and DIY Bio into my tool.
Being critical about this movement is also important. Bio and nature is getting more and more important, also in design.
Designers involve natural processes in their designs and people are trying to self sufficient. They get their vegetables from their garden, energy from sun panels.
What if we see ourselves as a source, by using 'trash' from ourselves and our life style as a source for materials to create products from?
Is this gross? Realistic?

MOSS TEST

Moss is a familiar yet special material that grows almost everywhere: on the sidewalks, buildings and gardens.
It can absorb liquids up to 20 times it weight, grows at damp and shady locations and was traditionally used by North American tribals as wound dressing and diapers.

A test to combine textiles with moss: