CCA Design Project Colores del Rio featured in Fast Company

Is your water contaminated? This clever device will tell you. Melissa Ortiz is now pursuing an MFA in industrial design at the California College of the Arts, where she has developed a natural tool that turns pink when dipped in contaminated water. Named Colores del Rio (for “colors of the river”), the tool is made entirely of red cabbage waste sourced from a local agricultural community. It recently won an award for “outstanding social critique” at Biodesign Challenge 2023.