Tashkeel Lecture: How can invasive species be used to create luxurious materials while improving our local biodiversity?

Tashkeel hosts monthly online lectures on specialised topics by industry experts who share their personal experience and knowledge. These lectures are designed to give artists and designers critical tools to further their professional development and careers.

Join this Tashkeel Lecture with Irene Roca Moracia, an architect and designer from Spain who has developed her practice rethinking abandoned and empty European structures. She believes that the scale in which we play with materials and furniture pieces allows us to test complex ideas around sustainability and social issues in a faster and more dynamic way than architecture.

For the past few years she has researched how the European construction system works. Making use of legal grey zones to obtain materials in perfect condition, discarded by construction companies, underpinned the production of Irene's recent collection ‘Appropriating the Grid’. This work illustrated how sustainability is a matter of operations and behaviours and not merely a matter of architectural design and technology.

Her recent work for LVMH came from the idea of creating a regenerative material that could target a problematic existing one, concrete, while generating a bigger impact. That is how the question: “How can invasive species be used to create luxurious materials whilst improving our local biodiversity?” came to life.

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