AÑO
2019
CATEGORÍA
Comunidad
OBJETIVOS
Producción y consumo responsables
PAL. CLAVE
Blood, meat industry, waste
PAÍS
Netherlands
CRÉDITOS
Basse Stittgen
LINK
http://www.bassestittgen.com/blood-objects.html
Blood related
Animal blood used by Basse Stittgen to create series of small objects.
Design Academy Eindhoven graduate Basse Stittgen has used blood leftover from the meat industry to create a collection of small objects. After discovering that slaughterhouses discard billions of litres of animal blood every year, Stittgen wanted to explore whether this liquid could instead be used to manufacture a new, environmentally friendly material: "Blood as a material can mean so many things – but there is no material notion towards blood. That is what I'm exploring. Can it actually be a material?" Stittgen says. "Blood is something really valuable, really precious, but in the reality of the slaughterhouse industry, it is a gigantic waste," he said. "We have to work with this somehow."