Print GREEN – A 3D printer designed to draw and shape miniature gardens
This isn’t your typical 3D printer. Print Green uses living material—soil and grass seed—to “print” organic designs that sprout into real, growing artwork. It’s a fusion of digital fabrication and eco-conscious creativity.
Printing soil, water and seeds with a 3D printer to draw miniature gardens, it is the goal of the Print GREEN project, started in 2013 and designed by students from the University of Maribor in Slovenia. By modifying a traditional 3D printer, the students designed a printer that works with a paste made of soil, loam, water and seeds, allowing the printing of objects ready to grow!
