Design Indaba | 25.09.2026 14:46
At Paris Design Week 2026, Latvian design collective Found Associations partnered with Kalve Coffee to transform a familiar café into a working laboratory for material exploration and circular design. The project explores how everyday consumption can generate the raw materials for new forms of making, transforming coffee by-products and other waste streams into opportunities for creative production. The exhibition connects four material experiments into a continuous system. Used coffee grounds are transformed into biochar and activated carbon, which is then used in a filtration system developed by Mārtiņš Mežulis to treat dirty water collected from a coffee machine.
