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

3LC, the leather composite where two waste streams merge; left over leather is turned into a biobased composite together with biopolymers made from bacteria that feeds itself with agro cultural waste. 

During DDW 2019 we invited experts from the field of science and industry that were followed b...

Lasting Leather Lab presents 21,22,23 of October, during the Dutch Design Week.
Come and talk - think – debate about innovation and experiments done with industrial leather waste!

Lasting Leather Lab: from waste to circular products with ecological impact

Thirty thousand hides a day all from the meat industry and destined for use in the car industry. With as much as forty percent waste, originating from the leather trimm...

Our future will no longer revolve around single-life products. What happens to materials as products are used? Or when the original product reaches the end of its useful life? And what happens to raw materials that are perfectly usable but do not meet the producer’s aesthetic quality standards? One disadvantage of today’s manufacturing processes is that some raw materials cannot be used, and significant waste is created...

was our workshop held in Tainan (TW) where 24 students (architecture, design, and environmental science) of NCKU (National Cheng Kung University) and entrepreneurs of C-Hub (Enterprise hub) worked together in interdisciplinary teams under guidance of Simone de Waart,  Material Sense. (NL)

In the workshop we investigates in how paper materials waste streams can be used for building applications to contribute to the circu...

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

an ongoing biodesign research project exploring the possibilities of sustainable textile dyeing with live bacteria and cymatic (sound) frequencies.

For our event Colour Materialized we asked Laura and Ilfa to present their work. An intriguing process that invites for more explora...

Dubai wil dat in 2025 een kwart van alle nieuwe gebouwen wordt 3D-geprint. Door in te zetten op 3D-printen verwacht Dubai de arbeidskosten met 70% te kunnen terugdringen, terwijl de totale bouwkosten met 90% moeten worden gereduceerd.

Dit meldt het World Economic Forum. De stap is onderdeel van een strategie die in 2016 werd gepresenteerd door Sheikh Mohammed bin Rashid Al Maktoum, vice-president en minister-president va...

Zelfhelend, flexibel en gevoelig; een robothand kunsthuid die je met een gerust hart kunt inzetten op tere ouderen en zuigelingen. Onderzoekers van de Universiteit van Colorado hebben deze E-skin ontwikkeld. Het geeft robots en proteses 'gevoel' en is daarnaast ook nog eens recyclebaar en zelfhelend. De huid is samensteld uit een relatief nieuw polymeer, polyimine en zilveren nanodeeltjes. Die zorgen ervoor dat de huid...

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 materials play in design? Like to see new materials developments and ongoing trends in materialization? These are the must-sees!

Materials expert Simone de Waart will guide you through this inspiration tour in half a day.

Like to get more background information and be amazed by the special...

We have just finished the new building fence for a renovation of building 'De Willem'.

This particular flex-lving and working space by housing corporation Woonbedrijf required a fence as striking element for the building situated at the corner of a lively neighbourhood. The question was to find a new way of communicating the message of the flex building while connecting the neighbourhood. We introduced wooden panel facad...

YMKE VANSTEENBRUGGE
Ymke comfortably combines her background in graphic design with her master studies in textiles. Using unexpected compositions and exciting color combinations she is able to create a beautiful spacial quality and depth in her textiles. Her playful take on foreground and background in knitted as well as woven fabrics provides inspiration for new industrial applications. We are eager to see how the char...

EMMA TERWEDUWE experimented with the transitory possibilities of textile and how layers create new images. She looked at this layering in a wide variety of textiles and discovered the possibilities of embroidery. She put layer over layer of – almost vulnerable – fragile and transparent images, using traditional as well as industrial making processes. Doing so, she shines new light on embroidery techniques. contact Emma...

We came across this marvellous material developed by Raul Polit Casillas for Nasa.

Raoul grew up around fabrics. His mother is a fashion designer in Spain, and, at a young age, he was intrigued by how materials are used for design.

Now, as a systems engineer at NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Pasadena, California, he is still very much in the world of textiles. He and his colleagues are designing advanced woven metal...

Simone de Waart is the founder and Creative director of Material Sense. In 2014 she initiated the foundation Material Sense LAB, a sister (foundation) of Material Sense.
Three questions on materials, possibilities and more….
 

Why did you decide to create Material Sense LAB?
“We thought the gap between ideas and practice needed to be bridged. Many companies are developing new materials and sustainable applications, but t...

During the succesfull Art Night Nijmegen, Future Footprints was presented at the location of the Expoplu, the former umbrella factory formed the ambiance where art and Science met each other. The public could meet and mingle in the discussion about value of materials and the materiality of products now and in the future. Hannah Kindler (invited by us as exhibitor) developed her R & D centre for value further and shared...

'Braindrain' is one of the spectacular items that fashion design Maartje Dijkstra designed in assignment for this exhibition. Highlights from the historical textile collection of Verhildersum will be shown and placed in a new context. Through meeting the fashion tech world, but also by new perspectives on the topic through video and documentairy as well as photography. Simone de Waart is asked to open the exhibition.  F...