The Maize Project

Long description

The Maize Project is a classroom project (4 weeks) that I am developing while pursuing an MA in Design Products at the Royal College of Art (London)

In India, Maize (corn) is the third most important food
crop after rice and wheat. This project repurposes this
material (the husk) as a way of eliminating damaging
agricultural activities caused by burning them and
seeing them as a valuable resource. This project digs
deeper into the lifecycle of corn, it’s processing,
applications, stakeholders involved, and ecological
impacts while working symbiotically with this natural and regenerative
system.

The project explores whether this material’s processing
opens doors to being shaped for stability,
permanence, and predictability. Could smaller local
communities be involved and financially reinvigorated
by the bigger chain of processing and industrialization
of this material?

This project was featured in the Milan Design Week and London Design Festival 2022

Youtube Video  – https://youtu.be/te7ag_iBvPY

Check out the project photos – https://www.instagram.com/p/CjGn6i3rOO72fv_SCm7qR-HsI4uLc565tU5lNs0/

https://www.instagram.com/p/COXtqojpleY4BQ54Kkav8NtvokjO-HtaVEc07M0/

The Process Book (Material Insights and possible uses) – https://acrobat.adobe.com/link/review?uri=urn:aaid:scds:US:94301b47-6dec-345e-9a1c-0a551b742274

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