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NEW INC Y12 Creative Science: You Are Made of Stardust + Microplastics

Research Directions Biotechnology Design 2026
Liz Ensz

Summary

I should clarify: this isn't actually a health research paper, it's a description of an art project that uses creative material transformation to help people emotionally process grief about climate change, extinction, and plastic pollution. It doesn't present health findings or data about microplastics' effects on the body, so there's no scientific "so what" about human health to report here. If you're looking for research on how microplastics affect human health, I'd be glad to help you find or summarize that instead.

RationaleYou Are Made of Stardust + Microplastics is an ongoing project of material transformation that explores deep time and the ambiguous grief of the current slow-motion mass-extinction event (Kolbert 2015).Alongside the work of defending our living planet, there is a necessity for collective ritual to process the planetary grief of our era (Weller 2025).

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