ReClaym our Compost: Biodegradable Clay for Intimate Making
Awards: Best Paper Honorable Mention at ACM CHI‘22
People: Fiona Bell, Netta Ofer, and Mirela Alistar
Year: 2022-ongoing
Description: We introduce ReClaym, a sustainable and personal clay-like biomaterial made from our composted food waste, and a corresponding practice for working with Reclaym called Intimate Making. By using our composted food waste, ReClaym reflects the makers' ever-changing relationship with food, resulting in an inconsistent and imperfect material. In turn, we use Intimate Making to build a collaborative relationship with ReClaym that supports such inconsistencies and leads us to create artifacts that we are emotionally invested in.
Outcomes: ACM CHI’22 Paper, ACM CHI’22 Interactivity, ACM TOCHI Journal Paper, ACM HTTF’24 Paper