How can design manage the interplay between the artificial and natural worlds and the interaction we have with them?
For example, the collaboration or competition with AI and technology, our relationship with digital life and artificial environments, or with natural, biologic, wild systems?
TEAM
Sanchit Agrawal
Aashna Daga
Manavi Dixit
CONTEXT
MITdesignX
2024
PROFESSORS
Svafa Grönfeldt
MIT, MITdesignX, Cambridge, MA, United States of America
Materials surpass planetary boundaries, whose extractive nature even today raises critical ecological concerns. CROP-ED tackles one such challenge of managing agricultural waste, a major contributor to air pollution and CO₂ emissions by transforming them into biogenic building materials. This initiative mitigates environmental damage while fostering social equity through collective measures. By integrating carbon-sequestering materials into construction, our proposal envisions a circular system that reduces pollution, empowers farmers, and redefines waste management in developing regions.