Related Soil Sister Publications:

Lokko, Mae-ling. 2026. Biomaterial Imaginaries. AD Architectural Design: Biodesign in Architecture. . Vol. 96: 1. URL

Verena Göswein, Jay Arehart, Olga Carcassi, Mae-Ling Lokko, Jose Silvestre, Anastasios Tsiavos, Francesco Pittau, Francesco Pomponi, Lola Ben-Alon, Edwin Zea Escamilla & Guillaume Habert. 2026. Towards net-zero with fast-growing biobased construction materials, Sustainable & Green Materials, 2:1, 2599796. URL

Lokko, Mae-ling. 2025. Soil Sisters: Emerging Intersectoral Material Designs For Soil Health. Journal of Architectural Education. Vol 79: 1. p. 154-166. URL

Lokko, Mae-ling. 2024. Re-fusing: On Heat Regimes and Material Circularity. Commissioned by the Getty PST ART  x eFlux. URL. 

Lokko, Mae-ling. 2024. “Mycelium Matters: Prototyping Deep Futures of Intersectoral Material Life Cycle Design Towards Generative Justice Goals“ in “Bio/Matter/Techno/Synthetics” Actar Publishers. URL.

Lokko, M. L., Wireko Manu, F., Mboup, N., Aly Etman, M. A., Raugei, M., Niang, I., & Sarfo-Mensah, R. 2024. “Comparing the Whole Life Cycle Carbon Impact of Conventional and Biogenic Building Materials Across Major Residential Typologies in Ghana and Senegal.” Sustainable Cities and Society 106: 105332. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.scs.2024.105332. URL.

United Nations Environment Programme (2023). Building Materials and the Climate: Constructing a New Future. Nairobi. URL.

United Nations Environment Programme (2022). 2022 Global Status Report for Buildings and Construction: Towards a Zero‑emission, Efficient and Resilient Buildings and Construction Sector. Nairobi. URL.

Keena, Naomi, Marco Raugei, Mae-ling Lokko, Mohamed Aly Etman, Vicki Achnani, Barbara K. Reck, and Anna Dyson. 2022. "A Life-Cycle Approach to Investigate the Potential of Novel Biobased Construction Materials toward a Circular Built Environment" Energies 15, no. 19: 7239. https://doi.org/10.3390/en15197239. URL

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Materials that can be kept in continuous use or safely returned to biological or technical cycles without releasing harmful substances to people or ecosystems at any stage of their life, from extraction and production through use, reuse, and end of life.

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