Latest Biomaterial Podcast Episodes
City to Building his Eco-Village: Joshua Kwaku Asiedu's Journey Across Continents
Tiny Farm Friends - June 08, 2024 08:55 - 1 hourJoin us as we explore an incredible journey from Italy to the heart of Ghana's jungle. Our guest, Joshua Kwaku Aseidu shares his inspiring story of building a self-sufficient ecovillage and the invaluable skills he learned along the way. We delve into the profound impacts of colonization on the ...
Building an Earthbag Dome and Vanirah Farm with Pawan and Marloes
Tiny Farm Friends - February 18, 2024 12:30 - 46 minutesHow wonderful is finding a partner who shares your dreams and values? Pawan and Marloes are the founders of Vanirah Farm, a permaculture farm on the top of the Himalayan mountain in Uttarakhand, India. In this conversation, we trace their journey from finding land and building an earthbag dome t...
Red Earth House - Tattooing, Snakes, & Starting a Commune with Corrie and Abhishek
Tiny Farm Friends - January 23, 2024 12:40 - 45 minutesAbhishek Shirsat and Corrie Foreman Shirsat are the founders of Red Earth House, a place of exploration, rewilding, creativity, and initiative in a village near Chiplun in the Konkan region of India. Abhishek has lived his life in the forests, researching and rescuing snakes. Corrie is an artist...
Building resilience with Christina Ransbury
Tiny Farm Friends - December 25, 2023 06:30 - 45 minutesChristina Ransbury is an interior and architecture designer, who strives to use low-carbon building methods that not only stand the test of time but prioritize the health of our planet. She is also an artist and a dreamer who wants to make this world a beautiful example of what humans are capabl...
Creating Abundance with Sudhanshu
Tiny Farm Friends - December 18, 2023 02:11 - 46 minutesMeet Sudhanshu Verma, a passionate Cyclist and a Filmmaker. He is known for choosing the road less traveled, literally and metaphorically. He has bikepacked across India and now dreams of seeing the world on his bicycle. In this conversation, he shares his story of overcoming scarcity and creati...
Why Are Creatives Choosing Rural Life? with Karen Rosenkranz
Tiny Farm Friends - November 17, 2023 08:55 - 37 minutesMeet Karen Rosenkranz, the trend forecaster, ethnographer, and author behind 'City Quitters: Creative Pioneers Pursuing Post-Urban Life.' 📚 Join us on a journey as we explore the motivations behind creatives leaving cities for rural pastures. What's life like in the countryside, and what are the...
Building Earthbag Domes and Traveling in Exchange for Work with Raghu Raahi
Tiny Farm Friends - November 03, 2023 06:25 - 35 minutesRaghuveer Singh Rathore, famously known as Raghu Raahi, is a singer 🎤, songwriter ✍️, filmmaker 🎬, traveler ✈️, and natural builder 🌿. He passionately inspires people to fulfill their dream of traveling the world by teaching them how to travel in exchange for work 💪. When he's not exploring the ...
Earth to Shelter A Masterclass on the Science of Mud Buildings with Yask Kulshreshtha
Tiny Farm Friends - October 20, 2023 06:25 - 41 minutes🌱 Meet Yask Kulshreshtha: Founder of Muddled Studio 🏡🔬 A scientific researcher in sustainable construction materials, Yask's PhD thesis "Building affordable, durable, and desirable earthen houses" at TU Delft, Netherlands, tackles rural Indian housing challenges: affordability, durability, and d...
Building Forest Garden, Mud Houses, and Zero Waste Village with Utsow Pradhan
Tiny Farm Friends - October 13, 2023 06:25 - 38 minutes🌿 Meet Utsow Pradhan, founder of TIEEDI, an ecological forest training center, nestled in Darjeeling that focuses on 🌳 permaculture, regenerative tourism, natural farming, and sustainable land and building design consultation. They also work on experiential environmental education 🌏 and holistic...
Rethinking Food, Clothing and Shelter with Karan Patel
Tiny Farm Friends - September 29, 2023 06:26 - 43 minutesKaran Patel 🌱 is the visionary founder of Aanushrav, an awe-inspiring farm nestled in Anand, where he is reviving ancient lifestyle by practicing sustainable 🌾 agriculture, traditional 🏗️ construction, natural 🧵 textile dyeing, artisanal 🍞 sourdough bread baking, crafting 🍓 natural jams, extract...
Transitioning from the city to the countryside with Olivia Grundy
Tiny Farm Friends - September 22, 2023 06:25 - 45 minutes🌱 Olivia is a permaculture designer and the author of the captivating blog "Shared Earth Living," where she shares her journey of transition from the city to the country, 🌍 following her heart's desire for a more sustainable life based on respect for the Earth and all the creatures in it. What ...
Eggware and Beyond: Embracing Glocal Biodesign with Midushi Kochhar
Tiny Farm Friends - September 15, 2023 05:43 - 29 minutesMidushi is a visionary 🥚 Indian industrial designer and founder of YLEM, a circular design and research studio. Her practice revolves around researching materials and techniques for rebuilding symbiotic relationships and fostering the circular economy in our daily lives. Co-founder of Makers on ...
Honing Curiosity, Crafts, and Woodworking with Anjali Lohia
Tiny Farm Friends - September 08, 2023 13:27 - 41 minutesAnjali is a woodworker based in Delhi, India, currently studying fine woodworking at The Krenov School. 🪵 Her woodworking journey began with a desire to intimately connect with nature, understanding its ever-changing properties. 🌿🌳Anjali's passion and curiosity are boundless, inspiring you to em...
Lessons from Mountain living: Building Ecological Connections with Aarti Dhingra
Tiny Farm Friends - December 04, 2022 02:21 - 1 hourAarti is an architect, with a deep interest in ecological design and the visual arts. Her interdisciplinary practice - based out of a small village in Uttarakhand in the Central Himalayas of India - explores interconnections between ecology, design, climate, culture, and social identity. ⛰️ Wha...
Building Angai and Living Intentionally with Mansi Kabra
Tiny Farm Friends - November 17, 2022 02:05 - 1 hourMansi Kabra is the founder of Angai, a social enterprise located in rural Odisha that utilizes local resources to produce handmade soaps and supports the livelihood of tribal women. She works as an associate director and a storyteller at the Good Business Lab. 🧼 What you will learn: 🧼 Choosin...
Material Literacy with Shubhi Sachan
Tiny Farm Friends - November 16, 2022 06:46 - 48 minutesShubhi is a multidisciplinary designer who believes that everything we call waste, can be put to use. Her current practice, Material Library of India, focuses on investigating value chains and making waste materials come to life again. To read the show notes click here. For people who are v...
Bio-Architecture with Shneel Bhayana
Tiny Farm Friends - October 19, 2022 04:24 - 55 minutesShneel Bhayana is an Architect, a Biodesign Researcher, a social entrepreneur, and a TEDx Speaker. In this conversation, we talk about her journey from being an architect to becoming a bio-architect, the background story of her Indus project, the need for interdisciplinary partnerships, and her ...
Not Making sense with the Roy's: Sumit and Sujat Roy
Tiny Farm Friends - May 22, 2022 02:06 - 1 hourSumit Roy and Sujat Roy are two multi-faceted artistic talents. You cannot put them under a label. Sumit paints, designs, and raps. Sujat is a versatile visual and textile designer. Their art speaks for a generation of urban cultural practitioners who grew up in the face of globalization and cor...
Cheer Project: Creating a symbiotic circular economy with Gaurav MK Wali
Tiny Farm Friends - March 26, 2022 01:14 - 1 hourGaurav MK Wali is an industrial and material designer from India, working against design’s monoculture. His 'Cheer Project' is research into pine needles in which the abundant and unwanted material is developed into a 100% bio-based and biodegradable composite material. To read the show notes c...
Creating Sensistan, Tech art, and Communities with Stephanie and Shammi
Tiny Farm Friends - February 17, 2022 03:24 - 1 hourStephanie and Shammi are the creators of the unique tech-art social enterprise Sensistan - a space providing immersive and interactive experiences that expand people’s senses through combining technology and interactive art. To read the show notes click here. For people who are visually incli...
The intersection of science, art, and material design with Rushati Chowdhury
Tiny Farm Friends - January 23, 2022 09:08 - 1 hourRushati Chowdhury is a visual artist, material designer, and maker at the intersection of science and art. She is trained in textile and now aims to give a new definition to traditional craftsmanship and visual arts, explore new materials, and push the limits of what can be possible with all the...
Moving to the Mountains with Saanya and Sannat
Tiny Farm Friends - January 07, 2022 02:59 - 1 hourThis episode is about the heartwarming story of Saanya and Sannat, who moved to a quaint village in the Himalayas to create an intentional life in the countryside. Sannat is an accomplished trail runner, an architect, and a personal growth enthusiast. Saanya is an architect and the founder of St...
Dungse: Shit Matters. In conversation with Itika Gupta
Tiny Farm Friends - December 21, 2021 10:14 - 57 minutesItika Gupta is a founding partner at Studio Carbon, a studio that works at the intersection of design, systems, and storytelling. Through Dungse, cow dung bio-composites, created in collaboration with Studio Lindey Cafsia, they aim at giving the age-old natural material cow dung a contemporary s...
The Malba Project: Deconstructing C & D waste With Shamita Chaudhary
Tiny Farm Friends - November 30, 2021 02:22 - 46 minutesShamita a circular economy expert and the CEO and founder of the Malba Project. Through Malba Project, she strives to bring attention to the construction waste stream, and enable the transition to a circular construction sector in India. To read the show notes click here . For people who are vi...
Activism through Architecture and Permaculture with Sourabh Gujar
Tiny Farm Friends - November 15, 2021 02:48 - 1 hourBeing sustainable is not enough. We need to be regenerative. Sourabh Gujar, an ecological builder and permaculture designer, joins to discuss the human impact of living in the hills, the merits of permaculture, natural building, and regenerative design. To read more about Sourabh click here. ...
Rediscover Curiosity & the World of Fungi with Sharad Rai
Tiny Farm Friends - November 01, 2021 03:29 - 1 hourIn this episode, we not only deep dive into the queendom of Fungi but rediscover how to live a life driven with curiosity. Sharad is a self-taught multidisciplinary citizen scientist, researcher, and science communicator, with a keen interest in mycology and its applications. We talk about Fun...
Rediscover Curiosity & the World of Fungi
Tiny Farm Friends - November 01, 2021 03:29 - 1 hourIn this episode, we not only deep dive into the queendom of Fungi but rediscover how to live a life driven with curiosity. Sharad is a self-taught multidisciplinary citizen scientist, researcher, and science communicator, with a keen interest in mycology and its applications. We talk about Fun...
Introducing Tiny Farm Friends
Tiny Farm Friends - October 23, 2021 15:29 - 1 minuteTiny Farm Friends podcast is an initiative by Tiny Farm Lab, a growing research and design lab, literally. Every fortnight we converse with dreamers, makers, thinkers, city quitters, working with nature, using the best of their abilities to foster a more inclusive, beautiful, and sustainable wor...
BEYONDPLASTIC Coffee Talk :: Episode 9 with integrated designer Rania Elkalla
BEYONDPLASTIC Coffee Talk - January 05, 2021 12:00 - 7 minutesShell Homage is a biodegradable composite material out of egg and nut shells without toxic chemicals. It is completely biodegradable and can decompose when no longer in use. It can be used in several industries as product design, interior design, consumable goods and jewelry design. Shell Homag...
BEYONDPLASTIC Coffee Talk :: Episode 9 with integrated designer Rania Elkalla
BEYONDPLASTIC Coffee Talk - January 05, 2021 12:00 - 7 minutesShell Homage is a biodegradable composite material out of egg and nut shells without toxic chemicals. It is completely biodegradable and can decompose when no longer in use. It can be used in several industries as product design, interior design, consumable goods and jewelry design. Shell Homag...
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