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###1. Tools and templates for documenting "new naturals"
-[**a manifesto for archiving new naturals**](./outcomes/new_naturals_manifesto), comprised of a list of considerations I've come to find very helpful in thinking about the archiving practices of new naturals;
-[**a video tutorial**](./outcomes/tools_and_templates/tactilityvideo/) for capturing the tactile experience of material samples
-[**a template to document recipes**](./outcomes/recipe_template/), to help you capture the entire process, while asking the hard contextual questions and document relevant considerations when developing new recipes and consideration applications and scale. Colleague fabricademer Beatriz Sandini tested and used the templates to document the recipes of her project [Ephemeral Fashion Lab](https://class.textile-academy.org/2020/beatriz.sandini/projects/0-final-project/).
-[**a template to document ingredients**](./outcomes/ingredient_template/), helping you ask the hard questions and document relevant considerations for adopting new ingredients and additives, also in terms of upscaling.
-[**templates for labels**](./outcomes/label_templates/) to create your own physical archive with material samples (building on the work of Maria Viftrup who designed the original sample label designs for TextileLab Waag).
-[**a manifesto for archiving new naturals**](../projects/outcomes/new_naturals_manifesto), comprised of a list of considerations I've come to find very helpful in thinking about the archiving practices of new naturals;
-[**a video tutorial**](../projects/outcomes/tools_and_templates/tactilityvideo/) for capturing the tactile experience of material samples
-[**a template to document recipes**](../projects/outcomes/recipe_template/), to help you capture the entire process, while asking the hard contextual questions and document relevant considerations when developing new recipes and consideration applications and scale. Colleague fabricademer Beatriz Sandini tested and used the templates to document the recipes of her project [Ephemeral Fashion Lab](https://class.textile-academy.org/2020/beatriz.sandini/projects/0-final-project/).
-[**a template to document ingredients**](../projects/outcomes/ingredient_template/), helping you ask the hard questions and document relevant considerations for adopting new ingredients and additives, also in terms of upscaling.
-[**templates for labels**](../projects/outcomes/label_templates/) to create your own physical archive with material samples (building on the work of Maria Viftrup who designed the original sample label designs for TextileLab Waag).
*Measuring and logging shrinkage, Loes Bogers, 2020*
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Making material samples myself was the core part of the research process. It required making these (and actually many more) recipes, and trying to craft different physical forms to arrive at the important questions that need to be asked and documented. Questions such as: when do you demould a bioplastic? How long does it take before it reached its final form and doesn't shrink anymore? Where does this recipe even come from? What makes a material sustainable? If it is sustainable, what other arguments might there be that make a material contested or controversial to use?
As a result of that process of making, wondering and questioning, [a selection of 24 foundational recipes](./outcomes/24_core_recipes/) is documented here, showing the research process, but also allowing anyone to start a physical sample archive with "new natural" materials. All these materials are easily and harmlessly absorbed by nature within 90 days and/or can be turned into compost, *without* controlled conditions assuming industrial facilities. And/or the material can be re-used with no or little additional resources. Biodegradability as a sustainability label is too often used to greenwash e.g. disposable packaging materials, so these criteria were chosen as point of departure.
As a result of that process of making, wondering and questioning, [a selection of 24 foundational recipes](../projects/outcomes/24_core_recipes/) is documented here, showing the research process, but also allowing anyone to start a physical sample archive with "new natural" materials. All these materials are easily and harmlessly absorbed by nature within 90 days and/or can be turned into compost, *without* controlled conditions assuming industrial facilities. And/or the material can be re-used with no or little additional resources. Biodegradability as a sustainability label is too often used to greenwash e.g. disposable packaging materials, so these criteria were chosen as point of departure.
Three additional criteria were used to make the selection: it should be based on local abundance (ingredients sourced and/or produced around my location. Secondly, it should include a range of techniques, and lastly, these techniques should result in a variety of physical forms to accommodate makers and designers from different fields from product design as well as textiles and fashion.
