Every year, we consume 100 billion tonnes of materials. Buildings, consumer products, furniture — everything is made up of materials like sand, clay, cement, wood, oil — and we’re running out. If we want prosperity, we need to replace the control and consume culture, towards a more collaborative & circular alternative.

A Material Innovation Center (MIC) is a space where we apply circular products & business models  at scale by bringing to light the world’s undervalued materials.

 

As a global network of innovation workshops— fitted out with  tools & machinery—MIC enables its community to exchange  pathways to transform undervalued materials into commercially scaleable circular applications. The online platform acts as a  limitless knowledge bank to enable learning flows between its Centers and bring to light exemplar circular material solutions. MIC believes that this cross-pollination is critical, and works actively to share technologies and business models, fostering partnerships and unlocking investments across its global workshops.

 

Through empirical examples, radical collaboration, and bona fide commercialization; we all take responsibility to capture and distribute the true value of materials, and  replenish our natural systems.