The Material Provenance Project emerged in the context of the BDC x Google Biodesign Sprint in 2021, where it was a semifinal project. Created by Global Listening over the course of 10 days, this film was the product of a 4 week research and design sprint looking into how synthetic biology can help to navigate the complexities of global e-waste in support of circular economies.
The Team
Sara Nejad, Max Lauter, Chris Lunney, Celeste Rose, Wiena Lin, Tess Adams, Michael Le
The system
The Material Provenance Project is an imagined nonprofit organization serving a global catalog of material data along with an eco-label specification for reuse. Empowering their work and others with a DNA-based data encoding system to track substance flows worldwide, the organization helps to support sustainable practices by providing insight into the provenance, properties, and journeys of materials.
The process
