We are proud to announce the publication of a new article titled; "Creating a Circular Design Workspace: Lessons Learned from Setting up a "Bio-Makerspace". Authors: Bert Vuylsteke, Louise Dumon, Jan Detand, and Francesca Ostuzzi.

In this paper, we present our findings (barriers and incentives) from setting up a "bio-makerspace" in an academic design workshop, to educate our students about emerging biomaterials.

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This article was published in the special issue "Sustainability and Circularity: New Material Scenarios for Product Design" in the journal Sustainability (ISSN 2071-1050). The article is Open Access and can be retrieved with the following: link

The article is the result of a collaboration within the research group design.nexus-UGent (.pillar Sustainability). This article was also supported by Flanders Circular, switchrs and GLIMPS.bio in the framework of the prototyping circular project. Furthermore, the article reports on experiments that were made possible thanks to the support of CRAFTH (CiRcular design & manuFacTuring Hackathon), EIT RawMaterials and Prototyping circular.