Welcome to the Material Revolution
We can’t simply recycle our way out of the plastic crisis – we need to redesign the structures and systems that pollute our planet, along with the harmful materials that we’ve become addicted to. It’s why Parley is leading a Material Revolution alongside key collaborators and innovators. In this ongoing Parley series we meet the scientists, pioneers and start-ups reshaping our material world.
We spent a day harvesting bulrush with Ponda, getting a close look at their revolutionary biomaterial.
We speak with Jane Palmer about her company Nature Coatings and its mission to replace fossil fuel-based materials in every industry.
This year at Magazine London, we collaborated with the Portugal-based company on an exhibit exploring the future of color.
Dyeing clothes is a toxic, wasteful process that harms the environment – one team of scientists is changing the future of fabric.
We speak to the Frankfurt-based company about designing the future with ancient materials.
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 is a non-profit, a regenerative farm, a fashion label and recently, a Parley collaborator.
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.
Our team in Sri Lanka recently collaborated with the Academy of Design in Colombo on a new project exploring critical ocean issues and the role young designers can play in creating solutions.
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.
We speak to Julia Marsh about her journey as a designer making ‘beautiful trash’ to being a CEO revolutionizing toxic food packaging.
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.
We speak to AIR COMPANY founder Greg Constantine about SAF, learning from nature to create new technologies and the mission to end extinction.
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.
Explore the nature inspired innovations transforming the material world .
A new report from Biofabricate and Fashion For Good provides a bio-materials primer for the fashion industry
Parley’s ongoing collaboration with Biofabricate explores the future of grown materials.
Designer and biofuturist Suzanne Lee sees the future of materials in the convergence of design, biology, and engineering.
Ahead of the 2018 Biofabricate summit, we caught up with Algix – pioneers in turning algae blooms into plastic-free alternatives that biodegrade.
We catch up with Jeff Beegle of Mobius to find out more about how natural materials and polymers can combine to create plastic alternatives.
With Biofabricate 2018 just around the corner, we speak with Geltor about how the future of beauty and wellbeing will come from bioreactors, not the oceans.
In our ongoing series, we catch up with Ecovative to learn more about their pioneering work with one of nature’s most incredible builders: fungi.
Inspiration from the deep. We catch up with AlgiKnit to learn how they’re transforming sustainable kelp into biodegradable yarn.
We’re partnering with Biofabricate to bring together the world’s leading bio-designers. The goal? Kickstarting the next industrial revolution.