Paper has been made from grasses and other non-wood materials for over 1900 years. Wood is a relatively new papermaking fibre, only 100 years old. Today the commercial non-wood pulp production accounts for 6% of the global pulp production. The main source for the raw material is plants of the Gramineae family. Research on nonwood material has concentrated on grasses like Miscanthus, Phalaris, S...

The raw material-centric and holistic designer attitude has become a subject of design education in recent years. This approach is expanding adapted itself to the full scope advanced capitalism, including consideration use materials, market reception, environmental aspects. pedagogic roots new perspective, such as DIY origins expressive sensory atlas, can be traced back Bauhaus foundation cours...