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The Material Provenance Project emerged in the context of the Biodesign Challenge (BDC) x Google Biodesign Sprint in 2021, where it was a semifinal project. Created by Global Listening over the course of 10 days, this film was the product of a 4 week research and design sprint looking into how biodesign and synthetic biology can help to navigate the complexities of global e-waste in support of circular economies.

The Material Provenance Project is an imagined nonprofit organization serving a global catalog of material data along with an eco-label specification for reuse. Empowering their work is a DNA-based data encoding system that imbues material with metadata used to track substance flows worldwide. The organization helps to support sustainable practices by providing insight into the provenance, properties, and journeys of materials.

The Team
Max Lauter, Sara Nejad, Chris Lunney, Celeste Rose, Wiena Lin, Tess Adams, Michael Lee

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