found associations reimagines future café as bio laboratory at paris design week

For Paris Design Week 2026 , four Latvian designers and artists partnered with Kalve Coffee to explore the caf as a small-scale material ecosystem, where by-products generated through everyday consumption become starting points for new forms of production. The project brings together biodesign and circular economy principles through a connected chain of material experiments, turning the caf into both a source of materials and a laboratory for their transformation. Three substances generated through the caf 's daily operation, used coffee grounds, dirty water, and excess foamed milk , move through a series of treatment and production stages. The output of one experiment becomes the input for the next, creating a continuous chain in which materials change their function and form.