Kanil Dias Abeyagunawardene is a maker, designer and entrepreneur with a current focus on seaweed as a versatile and sustainable resource in product design and making. His exploration with seaweed looks to use it as a composite material specifically in paper-based production, by applying improvised methodology. His goal is to convert seaweed as a base biomaterial in composites that can be used to create everyday objects and products that can be easily integrated into users’ lives, while allowing for the methodology to become open source; particularly for communities involved in seaweed ecosystems as an affordable and easily adoptable process.
