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This journal is an ongoing log of our collective movement — a record of the people, projects and ideas that inspire our mission and move us forward. To keep up with the latest, check in here, follow our social media channels and subscribe to our weekly newsletter, Wavelengths.
Science vs Plastic: A new way to upcycle plastic, inspired by fungi
We catch up with materials scientist Dr. Yimin Wu to learn about a new catalyst powered by sunlight that breaks down plastic in a process inspired by nature.
How Spiber are Studying Spider Webs and Using Biology to Replace Fossil Fuels
We speak with the Japanese company about material innovation, the fashion industry and the importance of circularity.
How Making Wetlands Wet Again Can Help Change The Fashion Industry
We spent a day harvesting bulrush with Ponda, getting a close look at their revolutionary biomaterial.
How Wood Waste Is Being Used To Make The Color Black Safer
We speak with Jane Palmer about her company Nature Coatings and its mission to replace fossil fuel-based materials in every industry.
Parley x Positive Materials: Future Fabrics 2025
This year at Magazine London, we collaborated with the Portugal-based company on an exhibit exploring the future of color.
How Colorifix are using DNA code to create natural colours for clothes
Dyeing clothes is a toxic, wasteful process that harms the environment – one team of scientists is changing the future of fabric.
NUVI: Creating the Future of Textiles that Return To The Earth
We speak to the Frankfurt-based company about designing the future with ancient materials.
Meet the designer using mycelium in fashion and interior design to help us understand that death is a part of life
Maurizio Montalti is the cofounder of SQIM, a company on a mission to harness the power of mushrooms, collaborating with nature to design a fungal future.
SKY HIGH FARM: WHERE FASHION MEETS FOOD IN UPSTATE NEW YORK
Sky High Farm is a non-profit, a regenerative farm, a fashion label and recently, a Parley collaborator.
Meet the designer making luxury fashion from waste
We catch up with Uyen Tran, who reflects on her upbringing on the coast of Vietnam and time working in New York, foundations that inspired her to launch TômTex with the aim to design the future.
Modern Synthesis is the biotechnology company creating fashion with bacteria
We visited the Modern Synthesis lab in London to get a firsthand look at the products that they’re making using K.rhaeticus bacteria and learn more about their journey into the fashion industry.
How Sway is using seaweed to replace single-use plastic
We speak to Julia Marsh about her journey as a designer making ‘beautiful trash’ to being a CEO revolutionizing toxic food packaging.
The Unseen is revolutionizing the beauty industry using upcycled algae biomass
We speak to material scientist Lauren Bowker about why we need to be able to visualize the world that’s all around us, what alchemy means to her and her new pigment Algae Black.
How sustainable aviation fuel will help humanity fly into the future
We speak to AIR COMPANY founder Greg Constantine about SAF, learning from nature to create new technologies and the mission to end extinction.
This plant produces the strongest fiber in the world – and the fabric of the future
We speak to Hannes Schoenegger about Bananatex’s mission, how fashion can play a role in averting the climate crisis and why optimism is key.