设计师 Sofia Porto Iannuzzi 的作品 Regen 生物设计传达 荣获了极具声望的 2026 A' Design Award 铜奖,竞赛类别为可持续产品、项目与绿色设计。
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Regen 生物设计传达
设计师: Sofia Porto Iannuzzi
客户: Universidad de Monterrey
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关于 Regen 生物设计传达
Regen 引入了一套图形系统,其中活体根系结构同时充当视觉语言与材料基底。传达不再印刷于惰性表面之上,而是通过受控的生物生长得以呈现。每一件作品同时作为视觉信息、活体生物与可生物降解产物而存在。通过将可读性与生态循环相协调,该项目将图形生产重新定义为一种再生过程,提出了一种替代模式——传达在其中不断演化、转化,并重新融入自然系统,而非产生废弃物。
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关于A' Design Award 铜奖
Regen 生物设计传达是 A' Design Award 铜奖得主,这是授予以创造力、独创性和敏锐见长的杰出设计的极具声望的认可。铜奖得主是技艺娴熟、创意惊人的作品,印证了其设计师丰富的经验、想象力与机智。预计Regen 生物设计传达将成为一件备受推崇、令人钦佩且被珍爱的物品,兼具显著的专业性与创新性。这件赢得 A' Design Award 铜奖的设计融入艺术、科学、设计和技术领域的最佳实践,并因注重细节而出类拔萃。Regen 生物设计传达出色地满足需求,触动渴望,迷住情感,并吸引好奇心。
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- 独特属性
- Regen uses cultivated root structures as both visual language and material substrate for communication. Instead of printing on inert surfaces, the message emerges through controlled biological growth. The project replaces linear production logic with a regenerative cycle: cultivation, communication, transformation, and natural reintegration. Each artifact operates simultaneously as a graphic piece, living organism, and biodegradable outcome. Regen positions biological growth as a design medium, proposing a scalable approach to regenerative visual communication.
- 尺寸与包装
- Artifact dimensions vary according to biological growth. Poster-scale applications range from approximately 300 × 420 mm to 500 × 700 mm. Thickness depends on root density accumulation. All materials are plant-based, compostable, and designed for full biological reintegration.
- 标签
- Regenerative Design, Biodesign, Visual Communication, Living Materials, Circular Systems, Material Innovation
- 生产技术
- The project utilizes root domestication techniques, biodegradable substrates, controlled humidity environments, and mold-guided growth systems to direct biological formation into legible graphic structures. Analog prototyping, material testing, and circularity assessment were integrated to align organic growth with visual clarity and structural stability.
- 设计挑战
- The main challenge was reconciling graphic precision with biological unpredictability. Root growth is inherently variable, requiring a design approach that balances control and emergence. Constraints included growth variability, time dependency, structural fragility, and environmental sensitivity. The solution required designing adaptive systems rather than fixed compositions.
- 研究
- Regen investigates root domestication as a reproducible substrate for graphic communication. Through iterative cultivation and material testing, the project evaluates structural integrity, visual legibility, and ecological performance. Circularity was assessed using the Material Circularity Indicator (MCI), demonstrating measurable improvements across prototype iterations and identifying pathways to eliminate remaining linear support materials.
Circularity was assessed using the Material Circularity Indicator (MCI), demonstrating quantifiable improvement across prototype iterations and identifying pathways to eliminate remaining linear support materials. - 灵感
- Regen transforms biological growth into a functional medium for communication, replacing inert graphic surfaces with living systems. Instead of relying on extractive, synthetic, and disposable substrates, the project proposes a regenerative alternative rooted in living processes. Informed by biodesign research and circular thinking, Regen studies root growth behavior and material life cycles to develop living graphic substrates. The result is a shift from static surfaces toward evolving visual systems that actively participate in ecological regeneration.
- 项目周期
- Developed between January and November 2024 in Monterrey, Mexico, Regen was produced through experimental research and prototyping at Universidad de Monterrey as part of an academic design research initiative focused on regenerative graphic systems.
- 操作流程
- Regen artifacts are cultivated through guided root domestication rather than mechanically assembled. Growth patterns are influenced through mold-guided pathways and environmental calibration, including humidity, light, and substrate density. Interaction occurs over time, as viewers experience gradual transformation, texture emergence, and organic variability. After fulfilling its communicative function, the artifact decomposes naturally, completing a regenerative material cycle.
- 专利
- All visual, material and graphic components of the Regen project are protected under academic and creative authorship. No patents or trademarks have been registered for this project.
- 团队成员
- Sofia Porto Iannuzzi
- 图片版权
- Main: Photographer Sofia Porto, Living Poster Series, 2025.
Image #1: Photographer Sofia Porto, Root-Based Artifact, 2025.
Image #2: Photographer Sofia Porto, Root Structure Close-Up, 2025.
Image #3: Photographer Sofia Porto, Biodegradable Artifact Detail, 2025.
Image #4: Photographer Sofia Porto, Biodesign Poster Outdoor, 2025.
Image #5Photographer Sofia Porto, Root Textile Surface, 2025.
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