Weronika Turowska
ma biodesign
Central Saint Martins UAL
Graduates: 2025
Specialisms: Material Innovation / Contemporary Craft / Design Research
My location: London, United Kingdom
Weronika Turowska
First Name: Weronika
Last Name: Turowska
University / College: Central Saint Martins UAL
Course / Program: ma biodesign
Graduates: 2025
Specialisms: Material Innovation / Contemporary Craft / Design Research
My Location: London, United Kingdom
Website: Click To See Website
About
Weronika is a biodesigner and material researcher exploring regenerative design, material innovation, and the emerging agency of living and responsive materials.
She recently completed her Master’s in Biodesign at Central Saint Martins, University of the Arts London. Her latest work investigates the intersection of agential materials and traditional crafts. Fascinated by microorganisms, she explores how living systems can be incorporated into material design.
With a focus on biodesign as a tool for storytelling and ecological engagement, Weronika examines how microbes and living materials might transform indoor environments into adaptive, responsive spaces.
SYMBI is a calming tactile ball/pillow made from grown bacterial cellulose and aquafaba/algae bioleather. Anthropocentric concern with human health has made us question the world we have shaped through design. Symbi questions our material culture, but also how we live with chronic pain - how tactility can help with conditions such as trigeminal neuralgia when a user constantly feels pain - through touch and a soft, calming, tactile feeling. The necessity of finding alternatives to currently available PVC and PU-based non-biodegradable vegan leathers has led to exploring the potential of utilising commonly perceived as waste bacterial cellulose film from kombucha drink and waste aquafaba. The inside of the ball is stuffed with kapok, which comes from the fibres of a kapok tree (Ceiba pentandra). Natural colouring was achieved from charcoal and hibiscus plant. Our bodies are host to vast populations of microorganisms. Based on the knowledge that we are the microbes we try to fight, the design challenges the perception of how we can collaborate with microorganisms to design a softer, more symbiotic world. Just as the calming ball can biodegrade, so is the hope that the chronic pain will find its cure too.
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