From preventing drafts and keeping moisture out of walls, to being used as inexpensive material for crafting 3D models, rigid insulation foam is a familiar friend to many architects and designers during the creative process. But what to do with all those scraps?

Designers Elisa Werbler and Lucy Knops of The Foam Agency (TFA) are inviting architects and designers around the Brooklyn community to send their foam scraps to be permanently showcased in An Insulation Installation at the Makeshift Society's newest location in Brooklyn.

The installation reclaims the foam back to their original place in a transparent wall, while also sharing the back-stories of the collected foam pieces that'll add a collaborative vibe to the Makeshift space.

Werbler and Knops -- who are both product design grad students at New York's School of Visual Arts and are doing their summer residency at Makeshift -- established The Foam Agency this year to celebrate the foam and its purpose in the creative process.

TFA's initiative continues to receive foam from all around the Brooklyn community, and has even collected scraps from the nearby offices of OMA, Snøhetta, and Leong Leong.

Want to contribute? You can submit to TFA's "Call for Foam" right here.

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