Nicolò Baldi: Industrial Product Design . University of Bologna
Supervisor: Michele Zannoni
Co-Supervisor: Marco Mancuso . Akarsh Swamilingappa Annaiah
SPIRA is protected by Creative Commons (CC BY-NC 4.0)
SPIRA's goal is to take microalgae cultivation beyond the academic and research sphere, making the benefits and knowledge associated with this practice accessible. Although microalgae have demonstrated considerable potential, their applications on a personal scale are still little explored, remaining mostly confined to the industrial context.
SPIRA aims to reverse this perspective, highlighting how feasible and advantageous it is to adopt microalgae cultivation systems on a small, accessible and easily controlled scale.
The ambition is to exploit the biodesign methodology to bridge the gap between specialised research and general knowledge, promoting interspecific collaboration with microalgae as a viable and concrete tool to address the challenges of the climate crisis.
To achieve this aim, SPIRA has three main fronts:
ECOLOGIC STUDIO - URBAN ALGAE FOLLY 2.0 (https://www.ecologicstudio.com/projects/urban-algae-folly-2-0)
THE CORAL - HYUNSEOK AN (https://design-milk.com/the-coral-indoor-micro-algae-farm/)
ECOLOGIC STUDIO - PHOTO.SYNTHETICA CURTAIN (https://www.ecologicstudio.com/projects/photo-synth-etica)
BURTON NITTA - ALGACULTURE (https://www.burtonnitta.co.uk/Algaculture.html)
ECOLOGIC STUDIO - BIO.BOMBOLA
(https://www.ecologicstudio.com/projects/bio-bombola)
HANG SU - PHYTOSPHERE (https://www.gp-award.com/en/produkte/phytosphere)
