Fibrenamics Green Platform – for the development of innovative products based on wastes selected as winners of the first Green Think Tank creativity contest. Pedro Regadas won the first place in the “Fibre” challenge with the project “Dress your pans” and Sónia Soeiro was the fair winner of the “Wood” challenge with the “Facet Stool” project.

To the winner of each of the challenges was awarded a monetary prize of € 500.00, and at this time the development of the products is already under way.

Last Wednesday, on 27th September, Pedro Regadas and Sónia Soeiro also had the opportunity to publicly present their projects at an event sponsored by Fibrenamics Green, which took place at the Ateneu Comercial do Porto.

The Fibrenamics Green team chose the best proposal for each of the challenges, according to criteria of merit, innovation, creativity, sustainability and technical feasibility and, for this, sought the two best solutions that applied the development of waste products with new utilities, shapes, touch, finishes and emotions. The jury of the competition was formed by Raul Fangueiro, Fibrenamics Green platform coordinator, Bernardo Providência, from the School of Architecture of the University of Minho, and David Bota, professor at IADE Lisboa and ELISAVA Barcelona.

Until 11th October, the second Green Think Tank creativity contest is open, this time highlighting the “Mineral & Plastic” demonstrator models. Aimed at all members of the Green Think Tank (GTT) network, this competition intends, like the first one, to put ideas to the test in order to develop an innovative product based on waste. For more information consult: http://green.fibrenamics.com/concurso-mineral-plastic/.