The idea of seeing a picture of yourself in the middle of a putrefaction process it may not sound very pleasing but we can assure you that is pretty cool
Some days ago we had a special visit to our Roastery, the girls from Organic Matters, an initiative focused on rethinking the future and the value of the regenerative economics through the organic waste and the local production. After a knowing a bit more their project we couldn’t reject to collaborate with them. Besides sharing values, our part of the deal was quite easy, we just had to give them our coffee wastage.
There is no doubt that nowadays, we need to understand, more than ever, that sustainability is not enough and that we must create circular and regenerative economies that avoids the lineal and extractive model that abuse of limited resources. This is the starting point for this project.
Nomad, as an alimentary company, had the chance to give value to those excedents and wastages that we generate, giving them a second life as well. Organic Matters, inspired on the example that Gunter Pauli exposed on his book “ The Blue Economy”, where the coffee wastages were used as a base to grow mushrooms, had the idea of putting efforts together to achieve their purpose: Build new regenerative business models, and generate companies collaborations in the area of Poblenou in Barcelona, using among others, our coffee wastage.
Tal y como nos cuentan, en el medio natural, no existen los residuos como tal sino que hay un ciclo de nutrientes y materia que se transforma. El encargado de este reciclaje es el micelio, una pequeña parte del hongo que propicia la descomposición de la materia. Este mismo agente del reciclaje es el utilizado por Organic Matters para crear biomateriales a partir de los desperdicios orgánicos de Nomad. Aunque el proyecto se encuentra en fase de experimentación el objetivo es generar materiales alternativos y conectar productores de excedentes y empresas interesadas en estos biomateriales.
Organic matters, que nace como proyecto fin de Máster en Diseño de Futuros Emergentes, dirigido por la IaaC, el FabLab Barcelona y Elisava, forma parte, ahora ya, del colectivo de materiales REMIX El Barrio, del proyecto europeo SISCODE y colabora con diversos diseñadores de materiales como Judith Gómez, Secil Asfar, Zoe Tzika, el estudio Taller Esférica y los productores Òria Cosmética además de Nomad.
Seguidle la pista a esta iniciativa, en su Instagram o en su web porque promete, os aseguramos que no os podréis creer que bonita puede llegar a ser la descomposición.