AlgieWasteandIcelandicwoolforswimwear

This summer, two projects that received funding from the Student Innovation Fund have had facilities in the workshop of the Icelandic Design Museum.

Participants will give brief introduction to the process.

TEXTILES FROM ICELANDIC WOOL FOR SWIMWEAR
Ásgerður Ólafsdóttir – fashion design / business studies
Ingibjörg Íris Ásgeirsdóttir – product design / business studies
Supervisor: Katrín Káradóttir, docent in fashion design at LHI

The project is a study of Icelandic wool and the development of textiles for use in swimwear. Icelandic wool has properties that are particularly suitable for swimming in cold seas, and the project strives to find new, more sustainable solutions in swimwear.

ALGIE WASTE
Sólrún Arnardóttir – textile design
Ísafold Kristín Halldórsdóttir – chemical engineering
Supervisor: Jan Eric Vessen, Algalíf

The project is a research on how to use algie waste, which is a left over product at the company Algalgalíf, to make bioplastics, and subsequently what products such bioplastics would be suitable for