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Dutch Design Week 2020 Virtual

This year's DDW 2020 is virtual. Lasting Leather LAB presents its latest material developments from left over leather, online. 3LC, the...

Lasting Leather Lab DDW 2019

Lasting Leather Lab presents 21,22,23 of October, during the Dutch Design Week. Come and talk - think – debate about innovation and...

Materials' Future Life new exhibition

Our future will no longer revolve around single-life products. What happens to materials as products are used? Or when the original...

Building with paper waste

was our workshop held in Tainan (TW) where 24 students (architecture, design, and environmental science) of NCKU (National Cheng Kung...

colour by bacteria

Laura Luchtman and Ilfa Siebenhaar investigated in sustainable alternatives to colour textiles and joined forces for this project Living...

material inspiration 3D print hub Dubai

Dubai wil dat in 2025 een kwart van alle nieuwe gebouwen wordt 3D-geprint. Door in te zetten op 3D-printen verwacht Dubai de...

material inspiration E-skin

Zelfhelend, flexibel en gevoelig; een robothand kunsthuid die je met een gerust hart kunt inzetten op tere ouderen en zuigelingen....

Dutch Design Week 2017: Material Sense Insight Tour

Material Sense selected a top 10 for you out of over 100 events on show in the Dutch Design Week 2017. Interested in the current role...

building fence for De Willem

A temporary new fence for a renovation of building 'De Willem'. This particular flex-lving and working space by housing corporation...

material inspiration graduates KASK

YMKE VANSTEENBRUGGE Ymke comfortably combines her background in graphic design with her master studies in textiles. Using unexpected...

materials inspiration graduates KASK

EMMA TERWEDUWE experimented with the transitory possibilities of textile and how layers create new images. She looked at this layering in...

Metallic space fabric developed by Nasa.

We came across this marvellous material developed by Raul Polit Casillas for Nasa. Raoul grew up around fabrics. His mother is a fashion...

“Through LAB I aspire to boost the circular economy”

Simone de Waart is the founder and Creative director of Material Sense. In 2014 she initiated the foundation Material Sense LAB, a sister...

Future Footprints presented at Art Night Nijmegen

During the succesfull Art Night Nijmegen, Future Footprints was presented at the location of the Expoplu, the former umbrella factory...

exhibition Groninger Dracht meets Fashion Tech

'Braindrain' is one of the spectacular items that fashion design Maartje Dijkstra designed in assignment for this exhibition. Highlights...

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