Johanna Gilan
Design MA
Konstfack University Of Arts Crafts and Design
Graduates: 2025
Specialisms: Product / Architecture / Interiors / Industrial Design
My location: Stockholm, Sweden
Johanna Gilan
First Name: Johanna
Last Name: Gilan
University / College: Konstfack University Of Arts Crafts and Design
Course / Program: Design MA
Graduates: 2025
Specialisms: Product / Architecture / Interiors / Industrial Design
My Location: Stockholm, Sweden
Website: Click To See Website
About
Just your average: talented, brilliant, incredible, amazing, show stopping, spectacular, never the same, totally unique, completely not ever been done before, unafraid to reference or not reference, put it in a blender, shit on it, vomit on it, eat it, give birth to it kind of girl. Master in design ecologies.
Dust to dust, from earth you came and earth you shall become again. Upholstered furniture today contains large amounts of materials based on fossil sources, such as PU foam, polyester and vinyl. In addition to this, they also contain various chemicals such as flame retardants and plasticisers with documented negative effects on humans and the environment. In addition, they are difficult to recycle, which results in upholstered furniture instead being burned or ending up in a landfill at the end of its life, and thus continues to leak both petroleum-based plastics and toxins into nature long after it has ceased to be used. I have therefore researched how to replace these fossil-based materials with hemp and mushroom mycelium alone to create a biodegradable and non-toxic piece of furniture that can be composted at the end of its life without leaving anything behind except nourishment for the earth and the memory of its existence
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