Biodesign, biophilic design & biomimicry with Danielle Trofe

Welcome to episode 43 of the Green & Healthy Places podcast, brought to you by Biofilico healthy buildings & interiors.

In this episode I’m chatting to Danielle Trofe, a biodesigner with her own studio in New York who also lectures in biomimicry for The Pratt Institute and Parsons New School.

Danielle’s MushLume collection of lampshades made from organically grown mushroom mycelium and hemp have featured in the seriously cool, eco-luxury 1 Hotel Brooklyn Bridge amongst other projects and she is a leading proponent of biofabrication - that is using naturally grown materials in product design.

Our conversation covers all of these ‘bio’ terms that may understandably be new for many of you, we also look into the full Life Cycle impact of a design product from production through to end of life, we discuss how biophilic design can when delivered poorly equate to a largely superficial greenwashing of the interior design process, and we introduce the topic of green chemistry, that is research and development around new bio-based materials that designers such s Danielle can then introduce into  future product development.

GUEST / DANIELLE TROFE / BIODESIGNER

• https://danielletrofe.com/
• https://www.linkedin.com/in/danielletrofe
• https://twitter.com/DanielleTrofe

HOST / MATT MORLEY / WELLBEING CHAMPION

• https://biofilico.com/
• https://www.mattmorley.net/