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Carbon Cell
What if you could create a 100% plant-based expanding foam?
In Sleeping Beauty, A Symbiotic Symphony, nothing is ever truly asleep. Beneath the surface, materials transform, ecosystems regenerate, and what seems like an ending quietly becomes a beginning.​
This question marked the start of our Sleeping Beauty research—and here in Milano, it finds its answer. Within this living narrative, we introduce Carbon Cell, a material innovation first discovered during Dutch Design Week.
Developed by Elizabeth Lee, Ori Blich, and Eden Harrison (RCA x Imperial College), Carbon Cell is made from agricultural waste, transformed into biochar through pyrolysis—a process that captures and locks carbon instead of releasing it. What would have been decay becomes permanence; what would have been emission becomes storage.
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The result is a 100% plant-based expanding foam that is compostable, non-toxic, and carbon-negative. Lightweight yet strong, it offers new potential across building, interiors, and everyday applications—pointing toward a future beyond fossil-based and chemical foams.
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At the heart of the exhibition, within the ROOTS bedroom, this material comes to life in collaboration with Working Bert. Returning to ROOTS, he presents paper lamp shades printed with real plants, paired with a Carbon Cell lamp base beside the Sleeping Beauty bed.
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Here, material, light, and living matter come together in a quiet composition—grounded, tactile, and deeply connected to the soil.