Giacomo Piovan's Farming the Pollution project is a service for decontaminating land by growing plants that absorb toxic heavy metals (photo: Femke Rijerman) In Blended Materials, Tom van Soest crushes bricks, concrete and glass from demolition sites into fine powders then mixes and bakes them to create new construction materials. Tristan Kopp's Produser system uses cast aluminium connectors to construct a bike using materials that are locally available to the consumer  (photo: Femke Rijerman) The Playing Food toy pig farm by Tomm Velthuis is modelled on modern intensive agriculture, complete with deforestation and overcrowded animals (photo: René van der Hulst) Brit van Nerven was inspired to create her Veil and Reveal modular garments by the hugely varied responses of women she asked which parts of their bodies they wanted to hide and show off (photo: Lonneke van der Palen) Corpus Commodus by Alissa van Asseldonk is a book exploring possible uses of tissue harvested from the human body in everything from medicine to face creams (photo: René van der Hulst) Perfume jewellery by Jody Kocken absorbes scent from the top of a perfume bottle for those who are allergic to wearing perfume directly on the skin (photo: René van der Hulst) Hikaru Imamura's Heat Rescue: Disaster Recovery kit contains essentials like rice, drinking water and towels, and can be converted into a fire for warmth and hot water (photo: Femke Rijerman) Tuomas Markunpoika Tolvanen covered furniture in steel rings then burnt the originals away to create his Engineering Temporality range (photo:  Joost Govers) The Leather Series of bags by Thomas van Rongen is hardened over wooden moulds in areas where it needs to be tough enough to protect laptops or phones (photo: Femke Rijerman)
Dutch Design Week: Design Academy Eindhoven graduate show at Dutch Design Week , including a system for decontaminating polluted land using plants and a method for turning debris from demolished buildings into new construction materials (+ slideshow).
The Academy was in the news earlier this summer when all three heads of the Masters courses resigned over a dispute about educational reform, then returned to their posts after claiming victory a few days later. Chairwoman of the executive board of the Academy Anne Mieke Eggenkamp then stepped down at the end of August but remains in her post until 1 January 2013. Eggenkamp took over the role in 2008 from Li Edelkoort , who published a highly critical open letter about the management of the Academy after the resignations in July.
The show continues at deWitteDame, Design Academy Eindhoven, Emmasingel 14, 5611 AZ Eindhoven as part of Dutch Design Week, which runs until 28 October.