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"...
08.20.2012
Format
one week workshop
Target audience
150 architecture students and 7 professors of South East University Nanjing
Location
Nanjing (CN), South East University Nanjing
Material Sense travelled to the Chinese city of Nanjing this summer. Company execs Simone de Waart and Patrick Vissers gave a workshop to build with Non building materials. "We got great response, the students went to work with great enthusiasm with the unconventional building materials," says De Waart. The methods used to create the works from sensorial prop...
01.15.2012
Format
one week workshop
Target audience
fashion and textile students Tartu University & Estonian Academy of the Arts
Location
Tallinn & Tartu (EE), Tartu University & Estonian Academy of the Arts
This workshop was initiated though a collaboration between the Estonian Academy of Arts in Tallinn and Tartu University in the South of Estonia. It has a become a meeting of mixed views from fashion and textile students and a meeting of Dutch and Estonian culture. Simone introduced the assignment of creating new skin...
10.02.2010
Format
workshop, two half days, for European Textile Trainees (ETT) Textile Museum
Target audience
design students and graduates
Location
Tilburg (NL), Textile Museum
How to select the right sustainable fibres, yarns and in general select materials while creating textiles and final textile applications. The workshop was part of the trainee program for young textile designers from Europe working on their program in the Textile Lab at Tilburg. The workshop consisted of input on materials knowledge, how to use sustainable design principles and an interactive exchange of expertise on choices within the design process of the concepts.
10.20.2008
Format
workshop, one day
Target audience
Dutch and Chinese designers
Location
Eindhoven (NL), De Smalle Haven
In this master class day, twenty designers entered into collaboration with one another. The deep-rooted Chinese tradition of working in paper with natural materials and the strong Dutch tradition of simple, clear, and graphic design met in an inspirational way. During the first workshop designers and architects wrapped typical Dutch sweets like cinnamon Candy and Wilhelmina peppermint and authentic Chinese food; all kinds of beau...
courses
12.20.2014
Format
one semester course for University of Technology Eindhoven
Target audience
Bachelor and Master design students
Location
Eindhoven (NL), Department of Industrial Design, University of Technology Eindhoven
When a client asks you to design an exciting experience through a product, what do you do and where do you start? Well, one way to tackle such a difficult question is by systematically trying out which aspects of the design contribute to the aspect of an exciting experience. In this assignment we focus on m...
12.18.2014
Format
one semester course for University of Technology Eindhoven
Target audience
Master design students
Location
Eindhoven (NL), Department of Industrial Design, University of Technology Eindhoven
This course investigates in our materialized daily life products, to elevate the understanding of the relation between materials and their value for the interaction with products and our environment over a longer time. The main goal is to learn and understand materials value from observations, literatu...
12.20.2012
Format
one semester course for Design Academy Eindhoven
Target audience
3rd year design students
Location
Eindhoven (NL), De Witte Dame, Design Academy Eindhoven
The Conscious Designer trained students of DAE to redevelop their concepts into sustainable designs. Starting point for the students was to take one of the previous developed concepts or products in their education and redesign the entire project. From design to the introduction for series manufacturing; the cyclic thinking about the design and manufacturing process in a more conscious, sustainable way stood central. It got started with getting aware of the production of their o...
06.30.2012
Format
8 weeks course for Design Academy Eindhoven
Target audience
2nd year design students
Location
Eindhoven (NL), De Witte Dame, Design Academy Eindhoven
Hard materials aims getting to know more about the world of plastics (‘hard and soft’ knowledge). Through practical research by doing experiments and understand and analyse outcomes. Knowledge is gained on industrial production techniques, also by factory visits. The aesthetics of plastics is investigated in and finally also learned how to communicate experiments and design (create a design vocabulary).
03.09.2012
Format
one semester course
Target audience
3rd year design students (Bachelor)
Location
Eindhoven (NL), De Witte Dame, Design Academy Eindhoven
Delft (NL), Delft Composites LAB
Material Sense combined her course at Design Academy Eindhoven with her project at the Natural Fibre Composites network to connect design students to get acquainted with these newly bio composites. LAB students got introduced into the basics of forming and manufacturing composite products at the Composites lab from InHolland in Delft. With these fundamental knowledge students created series of experiments in plastics reinforced with natural fibres and designed new...
06.22.2011
Format
one semester course for HAS Den Bosch HAS den Bosch & HAS knowledge transfer
Target audience
design students
Location
's Hertogenbosch (NL), HAS
A course that contributes to designer skills for food- and packaging designers.
The course focussed on materials research, selection and application. Materials of the world of both food and non-food are analysed to expand on the knowledge of materials characteristics for a food context. Materials series are created in according with the sensorial experience aspects needed to persuade the consumer within the food and retail domain.
material tables
11.17.2015
Format
interactive session for 350 people, duration 1 hour. Developed as Open Plenary of the Materials and Human health Summit for Greenbuild, in assignment of US Green Building Councel known for LEED certification.
Target audience
material suppliers, manufacturers, engineers, designers, architects, R & D developers, innovation managers
Location
Greenbuild International Conference and Expo, Washington DC (USA)
Discussions in the round the table sessions focussed on brought along materials and developments and were shared amongst the participants in groups guided by the material moments format. The aim of this ssession was to get acquain...
04.09.2010
Format
Material tables is a round table session format developed by Material Sense for interactive meetings during conferences, special events and fairs.
Target audience
material suppliers, manufacturers, designers, engineers, R & D developers, marketing managers
Location
various locations
Discussions in the round the table sessions will focus on brought along materials, developments, applications, new knowledge, and interesting case studies. Brought in materials, knowledge and practice examples will be shared amongst the participants and discussed in groups. The multi disciplinarily in the team will be made to measure according to the r...
