##towards a context-aware global material commons: what's in *your* local archive?
by Loes Bogers, 2020
The goal of this project was to explore and develop methods for open archiving of socalled "new naturals". "New" or "other" naturals are not a thing (yet). But we can see this concept being used in material archives, as container category for materials that don't fit the traditional material families of wood, hide, metal, glass, plastics, stone, etcetera. New or other naturals is a left-over tag to indicate composite or otherwise hybrid materials made from renewable natural resources such as food waste, plant fibres etcetera.
With the following tools and templates to facilitate collaborative, global - but context-aware and localized - documenting and archiving of "new naturals":
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*Shooting a tactility impression for archiving, Loes Bogers, 2020*
-**Wat is composteerbaar?** (EN: What is compostable?), Online composteerwijzer, Vlaco, n.d. [link](https://www.vlaco.be/thuiskringlopen/thuiscomposteren/wat-is-composteerbaar)