Theme: Textiles

Moderator: Leonne Cuppen

Title: Zeefier is a textile dye made out of seaweed for the textile industry

With more than 25 years of experience in the fields of marketing, management, and media, Anne Boermans is a seasoned entrepreneur, making her the ideal partner in a link-up with designer-artist Nienke Hoogvliet. The two met in 2019, and after multiple conversations and discussing the quintessential literature on seaweed, Anne too became convinced of the impact and potential of seaweed as a resource for yarn and dye.
She has been an active campaigner for implementing new developments with a blue economy motive. Anne is striving for a step-by-step upscaling of seaweed as a renewable resource for the textile industry.

Title: Kurkuma als ‘mood booster’ (NL)

Studio Lisa Ortsen is a design studio for material and textile design. The craft of weaving and research of materials and designs are at the center of designer Lisa Ortsen’s work. Her work is characterized by a distinct, visual narrative with careful detailing. All of her work is made from high quality, durable materials. After her studies at the Academy of Fine Arts and Design (MAFAD) in Maastricht, Lisa Ortsen opened her own textile studio in 2008, where she continuously searches for sustainable, stylish and practical solutions within the world of design.

Title: How do you felt?

After studying Electrical Engineering in Delft, Michiel started in 2000 as a Technical Consultant at the telecom giant Verizon, after which he gained commercial experience in 2003 as a sales manager at SNT, the market leader in call centers in the Netherlands. In 2006 he took the leap as an entrepreneur and started building Freedom Of Creation, a design agency specialized in Rapid Manufacturing (3D Printing). After a successful sale to the listed 3D Systems in 2011, Michiel joined the social enterprise i-did as co-owner. In addition to the social one, it also has a sustainable mission; from discarded textiles to high-quality end products made from recycled felt!

Title: TEXTILE ARCHITECTURE, a promising future

Samira Boon founded her studio in Japan and combines the adaptive and sensory qualities of textiles with computerized production techniques. Recent works in the Netherlands include Archi Folds and Hortus Bionica: innovative series of textile structures, which bring together technique, science and art. For their development she collaborates with Tokyo University, the Dutch TextielLab and the Sensor Lab. Her projects led to multiple textile innovations, which have been rewarded with e.g. the Creative Heroes Award and the Architizer A+Design-Award.

Title: Reducing the embodied carbon impact of spaces

Janneke Leenaars is Sustainability Manager Northern Europe at Interface with a focus on connecting the dots to reduce the embodied carbon footprint of the built environment and sharing our Climate Take Back mission. She believes in the power of leadership, courage and sharing knowledge to create a more thriving and sustainable society. Following a former career as consultant, coach and CSR manager, Janneke joined Interface in 2020 to re-apply her skills to face the global challenge of climate change, working to lower the embodied carbon footprint of the built environment and to accelerate re-generation.

Theme: Circular Design

Moderator: Leonne Cuppen

Title: Circular plastics in the furniture

For nearly a decade, Rosemarie has worked in the fields of sustainable development, natural resource management and corporate accountability. Since 2017 she is passionately working as Business Developer for
Searious Business. Searious Business is an impact-driven company helping companies and public institutions on circular use of plastic with a competitive advantage, and help bring plastic pollution back to zero. 
Committed to action, for the love of our ocean. As Business Developer Rosemarie is responsible for circular strategy development, business design, facilitation of value chain collaboration, and efficient implementation of resource recovery projects in the packaging, furniture, and consumer electronics sectors.

Title: Schaduw Plekken (NL)

Lucas Zoutendijk is co-founder of Studio 1:1, a creative research and design agency that specializes in social, spatial and ecological issues. For their innovative approach the office has won, among others, ‘The Green Architecture Competition’ and has been nominated for the Dutch Design Awards. Clients are mainly (semi) government institutions such as municipalities, Housing associations, Province and Water Boards.

Lately, Studio 1:1 has realized a number of ‘green & social projects’; like a participation game to increase biodiversity in new construction, a pilot with green lighting of a neighbourhood park and the development of the book ‘The Natural’ City’: 10 strategic concepts for a housing corporation how it can contribute to a greening of the city. 

Title: From Waste to Sustainable Flooring and Paving

Title: Rethinking Composites – A design perspective

Title: Sustainable material design, from experiment to functioning value chain

Studio Tjeerd Veenhoven (STV) develops and designs sustainable materials and products. STV has extensive knowledge of upgrading organic residual flows for applications in and around various sectors such as interior, apparel and building. STV develops innovative biopolymers itself, or uses biobased polymers from partners. Through self-initiated and commissioned projects STV has acquired extensive knowledge about cellulose, chitin, starch and mycelium. Over the past 20 years STV has collaborated with many leading brands in making more sustainable consumption possible. Projects such as Palmleather and AlgaeFabrics have been awarded over the years for their pioneering quality. Foremost STV is a design studio, using design as a driving force to speed up sustainable transitions. Tjeerd Veenhoven is also part of the ArtEZ School of the Arts professorship Tactical Design and Fashion where he is leading various research initiatives on lignin, cellulose and mycelium.