Aguahoja: A water based design approach and fabrication platform

Nature made us half water. With water, the biological world facilitates customization of an organisms physical and chemical propertiesthrough growth and degradationas a function of genes and environmental constraints. Designed goods, howeverincluding garments, products, and buildingshave little to none of the fluid that gives life. More than 300 million tons of plastic are produced globally each year, leaving harmful imprints on the environment: our seas, our trees, our bodies. Less than 10 of this ma