Circular Colour: A Counter-Spectrum for Systems Thinking and Sustainable Design: A Counter-Spectrum for Systems Thinking and Sustainable Design | Myboeken

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Colour as catalyst, not product. Case studies across six material territories

chart new ways of seeing and making that honour living sources and waste recovery.

Circular Colour invites us to look again at the chromatic world: at how colour

is grown, made, shared, and valued.

Through case studies across six material territories -recycled, mineral, planted,

fungi, biological, and structural, this report charts new ways of seeing and

making that honour both living colour sources and pigments recovered from waste.

What if colour came not from extraction but from cultivation? Not from mining

rare earths but from transforming industrial sludge? Not from petrochemical

synthesis but from bacterial fermentation?

Twenty pioneering projects demonstrate these possibilities in practice: bacteria

engineered to produce indigo, contaminated polycarbonate transformed into

iridescent materials, bauxite residue fired into ceramics, mushrooms cultivating

unexpected purples, nanostructures creating colour without pigment.

This expanded edition includes comprehensive material comparison matrices,

impact and scale mapping, emotional qualities frameworks, and 50+ resources for

implementation.

But Circular Colour offers more than specification guidance. It proposes colour

not merely as product but as catalyst - for remediation, for systems change, for

reimagining our relationship with material production.

From seasonal harvest palettes to structural iridescence, from waste-derived

terrazzo to fermentation vats producing any hue, the counter-spectrum is emerging.

This publication maps it, contextualises it, and makes it actionable.

Practical and activating, Circular Colour is essential reading for designers,

brands, material specifiers, researchers, and anyone seeking to understand how

colour production can regenerate rather than extract, heal rather than harm.

Circular Colour: A Counter-Spectrum for Systems Thinking and Sustainable Design: A Counter-Spectrum for Systems Thinking and Sustainable Design | Myboeken