MOSEANIC

The idea of Moseanic, a new sustainable material, was born in the summer of 2019 on the Greek island of Crete. While enjoying our holidays, we discovered that every "paradise like" remote Cretan beach we visited, is polluted with micro and macro plastic. We have been a part of a team organising clean up actions which for sure are important and necessary, but we also wanted to approach the problem by developing a design driven solution... MOSEANIC Dine is a set of two ergonomically designed geometric plates that can be placed into various compositions. The set is made of locally produced mineral base (Kamnik, Slovenia) and micro and macro marine plastic from the shores of the Adriatic sea. While designing this set in collaboration with a Slovenian chef Jakob Pintar, we have been thinking about the ritual of dining. Are we - as users- willing to create new habits, accept new shapes, functionalities and even new materials? Can the ritual of dining be also an opportunity to co-create and..