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Matico Project: Rethinking the Bandage/Plaster

Paula Cermeño Leon & Paloma Duarte Soldevilla
Peru
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Active bandages made locally with Peruvian flora. The bandage/plaster typology is practical and easy to use. This submission proposes to adapt the plaster to local environments by making it from plant fibres (a by-product of plant extraction) and by infusing it with healing substances coming from local medicinal plants.

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Alice Rawsthorn, Design Critic and Author

"By building on their experience of similar projects, the designer Paula Cermeño Leon and the forest engineer Paloma Duarte Soldevilla, have produced a thoughtful and compelling design proposal for reinventing a ubiquitous product – the plaster – more sustainably."

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