Newsletter Autumn 2012

newsletter autumn 2012

Moving Materials Expositie during the Dutch Design Week, Eindhoven Workshop, “Building with non-building Materials”, Nanjing China Make it – fix it – keep it! Seminar & Workshop 3D printing Feel ‘Architecture through different eyes’ Prize winners in Moving Materials

Dutch Design Week 20-28 October – Moving Materials exhibition The growing, travelling exhibition ‘Moving Materials’ is coming to Eindhoven. The show was to be seen in the German Essen this summer and will make a roundtrip to Lancaster, Kortrijk, Paris and Helsinki after the DDW. New products and ideas are added at each location to enrich the exhibition. The exhibition in Eindhoven was extended with an interactive carpet by Eva Deckers from Eindhoven University of Technology. There is 3D print work that makes sound waves visible under the name Cloudspeaker, by design studio ‘Shapes in Play’ from Berlin. And then there is the new ‘moving’ floor covering ‘Visions of’ by Desso, and the floor covering made of oil from castor beans, by Interface.

Material Sense is working with European partners in PROUD; finances are taken care of by Interreg.

‘Building with non-building materials’ in Nanjing Material Sense travelled to the Chinese city of Nanjing this summer. Company execs Simone de Waart and Patrick Vissers gave a six day workshop there to 150 architecture students at the Southeast University. “We got an enormous response, the students were fascinated and went to work with great enthusiasm with unconventional building materials,” says De Waart. The methods used to create the works from sensorial properties and material characteristics, is developed

by Material Sense.

Students at Southeast University created installations with bamboo clothes pegs and plastic straws. A very ethereal installation was made by threaded together beads of wax, a material you would normally use for candles. The items were not only visually interesting, they also had playful, sustainable components. Material Sense is looking forward to future cooperation with this university.

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Make it – fix it – keep it! Seminar & Workshop 3D printing During the DDW, on Tuesday October 23rd, Material Sense is organizing a seminar and a workshop on 3D printing, focusing on smart processing and product affinity, all in cooperation with Capital D. International speakers will give short, inspiring lectures and discuss their ideas with the participants. For example, Better Future Factory will explain how they process waste at Lowlands music festival into new products in a 3D printing machine.

“You can make anything in a 3D printing machine, in principle. That’s what’s behind our slogan ‘Make it – Fix it – Keep it’.

During the workshop we will be asking ourselves how technology can contribute to sustainable product development,” explains Simone de Waart, Creative Director of Material Sense.

Speakers: Marleen Stikker (De Waag Society), Johanna Spath (Shapes in Play, Berlin), Ilko Bosman (Freedom of Creation), Jo Meesters (designer in Eindhoven), Gaspard Bos and Jonas Martens (Better Future Factory) Ingrid van der Wacht (Capital D), Simone de Waart (Material Sense)

Feel ‘Architecture through different eyes’ How do you experience buildings if you are blind or visually impaired? A new book/DVD published by Bartimeus Huisvesting endeavours to answer that question. Material Sense was asked to take care of the illustrations of materials used in buildings.

The publication brings architects up to speed on important research done on the sensorial qualities of materials.

Touch, smell and sound are used to ‘look at’ the built up environment. For example with echo location, which supports orientation with sound waves.

Eight blind and visually impaired people take listeners and readers on a tour of characteristic buildings in Dutch architecture. They give an impression of how they experience architecture with all their senses. Buildings experienced as pleasant by the blind and visually impaired also feel good to ordinary sighted people, the research shows.

The book and DVD will be published on November 14.

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Prize winners in Moving Materials A number of materials selected by Material Sense for Moving Materials are already winning prizes. Great recognition!

Florian Schmid of ‘Stitching Concrete’ has won the IF Concept Awards. This is one of the biggest and most important design awards for young designers. A more than deserved reward for his smart use of concrete in cloth, and great stitching, states Material Sense.

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The acoustic material by Casalis won the 1st prize for best design at the Design District Fair (100% design) with 3D textile design by Aleksandra Gaca. These noise absorbent panels or wall coverings with an intrigues woven 3D texture, have both decorative and exceptional acoustic qualities Read more about about this material on our website.

Berber Soepboer is nominated for the Doen Materiaalprijs 2012 for her ‘Product Pieces’. A garment design concept with prints by Michiel Schuurman. Through folding, five pieces of fabric with five different prints can be converted into five different designs.

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