training
New materials and innovative products originate from existing knowledge and creative problem solving, thus education is needed to supports a profound basis. Our goal is to inspire and create awareness of materials and get acquainted with their performances in a playful, explorative and sensory way. We advocate the choice of materials as a starting point of the design process.
We like to encourage a creative approach using all our senses to implement associative thinking and include experiences to fuel innovation processes. Our trainings are backed up with methods and ranges from one day workshops and masterclasses formats to full courses for educations and made to measure in-house trainings for companies and institutes.
inhouse training
09.05.2018
Format
inhouse training
Target audience
professionals Housing corporations
Location
Spark Innovation Campus, Heijmans, Rosmalen
In this interactive sessions sustainable materials innovations in the building sector were explored and analysed. Sensorial experiences and stories of manufacturing, (local) sourcing and reuse were axchanged. The teams shared awareness, ideas for application and needs for future applications of newly to develop materials for circular buildings. The interactive sessions were part of a full "Day of Circularity", inspired by keynote speakers from the field.
02.10.2015
Format
inhouse training (part of the leadership program for NXP), two evenings
Target audience
international engineers and managers
Location
Eindhoven (NL), Strijp-S
Within the leadership program for direct managers of NXP, Material Sense organized an interactive sensorial connectivity event. We combined preparing food together, hands on making, and challenging questions related to leadership and connection to enhance team spirit and allow informal contact between participants. The workshop was developed in close cooperation with and at the inspiring ambiance of Keukenconfessies.
master classes
03.20.2015
Format
master class, half a day
Target audience
designers, manufacturing companies, young professionals
Location
Taipei (TW), FabCafe Taipei
Nowadays changes in society sparked new maker movements, hobbyism turns repaired vintage into a new design or cult status, and at the same time our mass production culture asks for a circular thinking in order to create new materials from products, rather than creating more waste.
Participants were asked to brought along personal attached materials and products to elevate the discussion. By crossing the borders of their own profession...
04.22.2013
Format
master class, 2 days
Target audience
designers, engineers, scientists
Location
Lancaster (UK), Imagination Lancaster - Lancaster University
The Master Class Laser Cutting, took place at Imagination Lancaster (UK) and was developed by Material Sense in collaboration with Snijlab. For this Laser Cutting Master Class we selected two types of materials; on one hand materials that have proven to work well with the laser cutter and on the other hand materials that can form a good and healthy alternative to use. During the workshop the different properties and possibiliti...
11.15.2010
Format
master class, one day, introduction by moulage expert, hands-on working with new materials from manufacturers
Target audience
designers
Location
Eindhoven (NL), ICSE
Professional designers with different backgrounds, were invited to create a fair fashion piece themselves in the hands on workshop "Material for fair fashion". They were challenged to create this piece by moulage , introduced by the moulage expert, and with the newest sustainable produced materials from manufacturers.
09.25.2010
Format
master class, three days during Disainiöö
Target audience
design professionals with backgrounds in interior-, to product-, and stage design
Location
Talinn (EE), Disainiöö (Design Festival)
A workshop on food packaging design. Authenticity of materials related to the food experience stood central. Wrapping concept were created together with the new snack, based on local ingredients.
For this subject a format was created; a combination of a selected group of chef cooks from class restaurants in Tallinn worked together with designers to create the new Estonian snack f...
workshops
02.05.2019
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 circular economy. Paper waste both from industry as well as household waste, combined with minerals and diverse organic materials.
The starting materials were C-slurry – developed by Lotus and LilinLab (TW )and consumer waste...
03.29.2015
Format
workshop, eight days in four weeks
Target audience
design students, young entrepreneurs
Location
Tainan (TW), National Cheng Kung University (NCKY), C-Hub
This workshop introduces the role of tactility of materials for tangible objects and the interaction with products in general. It is developed as a research through design process that entails a working process from: m...
10.10.2014
Format
one week workshop
Target audience
design, interior architecture, fashion students - graduates Centro University
Location
Mexico City (MX), Centro University
Invited by design Education Centro, Simone de Waart trained insight in thinking about sensorial experiences in materialization. A selected group of students and graduates from Fashion, Product design and Interior architecture explored in multi-disciplinary teams the interaction with materials for concepts of "Material Skins"...