november 5, 2021 In By

Shaakira Jassat

[vc_row row_type="row" use_row_as_full_screen_section="no" type="full_width" text_align="left" background_animation="none" css_animation=""][vc_column][vc_column_text] PROJECT Aquatecture  COUNTRY Netherlands/ South Africa Aquatecture is a compact and modular water harvesting system designed to collect falling rainwater in the urban environment, inspired by the structure of desert beetles and plants. It can be installed as a façade panel on...

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Derya Irkdas Dogu

[vc_row row_type="row" use_row_as_full_screen_section="no" type="full_width" text_align="left" background_animation="none" css_animation=""][vc_column][vc_column_text] EXHIBITION Spinning Bomyx Mori  COUNTRY Turkey   Producing silk with worms is an ancient practice. Derya Irkdas Dogu is exploring another way to harvest the silk, instead of boiling out the cocoons she is letting the Bombyx spin their threats on other surfaces and...

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november 5, 2021 In By

Angelo Ciccaglione

[vc_row row_type="row" use_row_as_full_screen_section="no" type="full_width" text_align="left" background_animation="none" css_animation=""][vc_column][vc_column_text] PROJECT 30.90582 COUNTRY Italy 30.90582 speaks of a reality in which humans aren’t standalone, detached beings apart from nature and technology, but rather always embedded in a complex and sensitive world. The visitor is an active part in materializing this theoretical concept....

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november 1, 2021 In By

Project Pomace

[vc_row row_type="row" use_row_as_full_screen_section="no" type="full_width" text_align="left" background_animation="none" css_animation=""][vc_column][vc_column_text] PROJECT Project Pomace  COUNTRY Turkey / The Netherlands  Project Pomace is a collaborative design research which involves designers, makers, and academics from the Netherlands and Turkey. It is inspired by the intrinsic circular qualities of the ancient olive cultivation practices in Karaburun, Izmir,...

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november 1, 2021 In By

Lauren Raaijmakers

[vc_row row_type="row" use_row_as_full_screen_section="no" type="full_width" text_align="left" background_animation="none" css_animation=""][vc_column][vc_column_text] PROJECT Touching Death COUNTRY The Netherlands What rituals and relationships do we hold towards mourning and death? With ‘Touching death’ Lauren challenges our fear with death and reconsider our rituals. Her skin-like urn is made to be held and redefine the meaning...

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november 1, 2021 In By

Tabled

[vc_row row_type="row" use_row_as_full_screen_section="no" type="full_width" text_align="left" background_animation="none" css_animation=""][vc_column][vc_column_text] PROJECT Tabled Design  COUNTRY The Netherlands The Prosopis tree arrived by people who planted the non-native tree in Namibia. This tree’s need for water and extensive growing ruins the landscape, and farming possibilities. Together with the local communities Tabled uses the tree for...

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november 1, 2021 In By

Marije Dijkstra

[vc_row row_type="row" use_row_as_full_screen_section="no" type="full_width" text_align="left" background_animation="none" css_animation=""][vc_column][vc_column_text] PROJECT KLAAIKLÚT COUNTRY The Netherlands Within the research project ‘KLAAIKLÚT’ Marije is exploring natural dyeing of fabric with silt, a clay layer found in Friesland where she grew up in the north of the Netherlands. In her quest to raise awareness to...

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november 1, 2021 In By

In-between: the cocoon and design

[vc_row row_type="row" use_row_as_full_screen_section="no" type="full_width" text_align="left" background_animation="none" css_animation=""][vc_column][vc_column_text] PROJECT In-between: the cocoon and design  COUNTRY Turkey Silkworms have been isolated from their natural environments thousands of years ago. This project considers ways of rebuilding the relationship between the silkworm and mulberry tree by reversing the process of domestication. [/vc_column_text][/vc_column][/vc_row]...

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november 1, 2021 In By

Lieke Mangindaan

[vc_row row_type="row" use_row_as_full_screen_section="no" type="full_width" text_align="left" background_animation="none" css_animation=""][vc_column][vc_column_text] PROJECT The Microplastic Menu  COUNTRY The Netherlands The microplastic menu is an ingredient and recipe book, where every shown plastic ingrediënt and recipe has it charateristics: taste smell and unatritional value. each coloured ingredient and recipe of recycled plastic are enlagements of microplastics...

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november 1, 2021 In By

Kamila Iżykowicz

[vc_row row_type="row" use_row_as_full_screen_section="no" type="full_width" text_align="left" background_animation="none" css_animation=""][vc_column][vc_column_text] PROJECT Auraforest.com  COUNTRY Poland The Department of Culture for Breath in 2030 presents a digital archive — The Library of Multispecies Scents — excavated from native pine forests. The project explores an unsettled future, questioning humanity’s relationships with other living entities. It...

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