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"Joanne Odisho, a Melbourne furniture designer, collects thousands of discarded
eggshells from local cafes. Then she sterilises them, dries them and puts them
through a Nutribullet.
These are the first steps in creating the novel material Odisho uses to make
her Mod-u lamps, a collection of configurable Jenga-esque lighting pieces,
which recently won her the coveted Australian Furniture Design award, one of
the country’s richest design awards.
Odisho first explored the idea during a school assignment while studying
furniture design at RMIT in 2022, when she was charged with utilising food
waste in a product. Inspired by resources from Materiom, an organisation
dedicated to innovations in nature-based materials, she experimented with
coffee grounds “but they developed mould”, before landing on the unlikely
flexibility and fortitude of eggshells."
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mailto:xanni@xanadu.net Andrew Pam
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