Our 3D printed tempeh mould and Domingo necklace were featured at Dutch Design Week in Eindhoven this October 21-29 as part of the Tools for a Warming Planet exhibition.

Thanks to Beth Ferguson, Sara Dean and Marina Monsonís for taking us on a journey with them.

We had the chance to participate in —and win— the Fab Island Challenge organised by Fab City during the Bali Fab Fest!

The Fab Island Challenge brought together local and international innovation communities to contribute to a regenerative economy by developing meaningful solutions that could address various challenges faced by communities in Bali. Teams from around the world learned about a number of local initiatives and their specific challenges, and then proposed and designed prototypes of potential solutions - the best of which were then selected to receive seed funding for implementation.

We were part of the Kopernik team, an organisation that finds what works to reduce poverty, by experimenting with potential solutions that address common challenges.

Our challenge focused on the inefficiencies of harvesting and post-harvest processing by smallholder coffee and cocoa farmers in Bali. After 10 days of research and design, we are pleased to announce that the Kopernik challenge and the prototypes we developed have been selected as one of the winners, which means that the initiative can now move on to development and implementation to help address the challenges faced by farmers.

We are pleased to have been invited to a live-streamed panel session from Bali for the kick-off of the Master in Design for Distributed Innovation by Fab City Global Initiative.

We had the chance to share our story, our vision, our mission and our projects with the new students of the master and other local guests of the Bali Fab Fest.

You can find the recording of the whole session here, we are talking at 22’36”. Or read the blogpost.

Here’s a glimpse of our Fermenter Necklace at the 10th edition of Maker Faire Roma 2022 this past October 7-8-9. Thanks to Fab Lab Barcelona for featuring us on their booth.

Pictures: Courtesy of Fab Lab Barcelona

We did participate with our Fermenter mini to the 2022 Hackaday Prize, a global hardware design challenge focused on widespread and impactful innovation and we were one of the top 50 finalists. Our project won the Challenge 04: Climate Resilient Communities Finalist Award.

We invite you to read Arya Voronova’s lovely blogpost and to check out the full documentation on hackaday.io. We are pleased to have shared our project with the world’s largest collaborative hardware development community.

Hey! Look who we met! The one and only Driando from tempemovement! If you don’t know him, he’s the food scientist and entrepreneur who started a great movement to promote and share Indonesia’s best kept secret, tempe(h)! We had the chance to show him our fermenter and fermenter necklace in person. It’s a small world!

Driando, it was a great pleasure to meet you yesterday in Barcelona, and we look forward to seeing you again in Indonesia very soon! Have a great trip in Europe!

These past weekend was the Fiestas de La Mercè, the big celebration of Barcelona. And with it came the festival of sustainable food at the Ronda de Sant Antoni. Our Fermenter Mini was showcased at the FoodShift2030 stand. We are very glad to have participated in the celebration of the beautiful and sustainable Barcelona!

Ciao Milano! We are very pleased to have been invited by PoliFactory, the Fablab within the Bovisa campus of Politecnico di Milano, to give a talk about distributed design for plant-based food for an event they organised called Open Food Factory. This event was held to inspire young designers and makers to participate in a challenge they had just launched. It was a great experience for us to be part of the selection of speakers, as we all had a different approach but one goal. We felt inspired and understood. The event ended with an aperitivo where we had the chance to exchange with the audience.

Many thanks to Andrea Ascani for inviting us and showing us the facilities and recent projects of their FabLab, and to the Distributed Design platform for facilitating our journey.

What great news came in our emails this week! We have received a grant to travel to Bali, to participate in the design challenge at the Bali Fab Fest, the world’s largest Fab Lab event. We will be researching and designing bio-materials made from mycelium, the roots of mushrooms!

We will take this chance to see Indonesia in a broader sense, to immerse ourselves in its energy. Indonesia is the birthplace of tempe(h), and we couldn’t have found a more meaningful destination. We will be able to learn everything we ever wanted to know about our favourite fermented product, to be with the people who make it, in its natural environment. The Domingo Club can only grow from this, and we can’t wait!

The Tools for a Warming Planet exhibition, of which we are a part, which was itself part of the La Irrupció exhibition, has ended. But the great news is that it will move to Ars Electronica, Austria! The Ars Electronica festival is a major event bringing together art, technology and society. We are very proud to be part of it with our fermenter necklace and 3D printed tempeh mould, continuing the discussion about the link we have with our food and the possible collaborations with fungi and micro-organisms in a crisis context.

Thanks to Sara Dean, Beth Ferguson, Marina Monsonís for curating and organizing!

Courtesy of the images: Tools for a Warming Planet