Aaron Lapeirre (BE), Sofie Verclyte (BE) x Artisans Shatila (LB) - On Migrating Heritage

The Palestinian refugee camp of Shatila, in Lebanon, has seen many Syrians arrivals in recent years, often burdened with traumatic experiences. Where these people sometimes lack the language, embroidery becomes an unexpected means of expression.

supported by KASK & Conservatorium (HOGENT - Howest)

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Alexander Marinus (BE) - Hey Jute

Jute still has something of a ‘potato sack’ image. Alexander Marinus rehabilitates the environmentally friendly fabric by using needle felting to transform it into an aesthetically pleasing material with countless possibilities.

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Alexandre Humbert (FR) - Sitting Might Just Be What Kills You

During the pandemic, the intimate relation between man and chair took a striking twist because of social distancing. Take your seat for a film that confronts us with the question: what if sitting might just be what kills you?

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Amandine David (BE) with Esmé Hofman (NL) x Joris Van Tubergen (NL) - Crossing Parallels

Layer by layer, the symbiosis arises between basket weaver Esmé Hofman and 3D printing artist Joris van Tubergen, as craft and design have more in common than initially thought.

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Amandine David (BE) - Weaving Code

Weaving Code is at the intersection of handweaving, programming and 3D printing, where ones and zeros meet in large numbers.

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Annelotte Lammertse (BE) - Zoom I, II, III, IV - Lijnen en breuken

The work Zoom transmits a fascination with spontaneous urban flora that grows and colonizes our urban pavements and walls. They have shown a strong resilience and adaptive capacity in the past centuries. Annelotte weaves and dyes textlises with such plants in order to explore and show the edges of the city and the fringes of our civilisation.
supported by LUCA School of Arts

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Anthony Leenders (BE) - Vata - Cavo - Daki

Anthony Leenders’ objects occupy the middle ground between sculpture, furniture and installation, but always invite us to question our position as ‘users’.

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Arnaud Eubelen (BE) - Untitled Tree x Lost Wall

Arnaud Eubelen investigates the urban mutations that surround us. The chaotic energy of a city is exposed through the deconstruction and rebuilding of collected materials, trash, debris and scrap metal.

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Arnaud Eubelen (BE) - Assembly of Fallen Values

Arnaud Eubelen combines collected materials and waste to create a jumble of urban facades. In this way, the sculpture reveals the underground systems of our social practices.
part of OPENBARE WERKEN / BE PART ASSEMBLY at Kunstencentrum Voo?uit

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Arteveldehogeschool - Careful Hexagones

To the Audiovisual Design students at the Arteveldehogeschool were given a mantra and 31 hexagons to reflect on. The result: a 10-minute, refreshing animation.

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Atelier U + E (Ulrike Pittomvils & Elise Vanden Broecke) (BE) - Chute

Atelier U + E gives new life to the idea of worn-out billboards: using a dry-felt technique and discarded textile scraps, Elise Vanden Broecke and Ulrike Pittomvils create a large, tactile installation. A time-consuming process that could be brought out from under the dust thanks to the coronal lockdown.
supported by KASK & Conservatorium (HOGENT – Howest)

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Atlas of Lost Finds collective - Felideo Stirrup Bottle

After a fire in the Brazilian Museu Nacional, only digital data of much of the heritage remained. A selection of international artists breathe 32 new lives into a pre-Columbian horseshoe flask.

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Basse Stittgen (DE) - How Do You Like Your Eggs?

Basse Stittgen helps small-scale organic farms to recover leftover eggs, and turns them into bioplastic egg cups.

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BC materials (BE) i.s.m. Hannah Segerkrantz (AT) - Brickette, Brusseleir, Kastar x Mortier

The construction industry is a major source of pollution. BC materials wants to shift this paradigm by transforming excavated soil from construction sites - officially considered waste - into perfectly circular building materials, such as clay plasters, compressed earth blocks and rammed earth. The creation was given the names Brickette, Brusseleir, Kastart and Mortier.

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Bert Villa (BE) - Fence

In the morning of the 6th of April Bert Villa & Anco de Jonge cut a hole in the fence of Design Museum Gent with angle grinders and infiltrated the building. During their visit new door handles were produced out of the cutout fence bars and were installed in several doors in the museum. Hostile architecture elements announcing the future entrance of Design Museum’s new wing.

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Benedetta Pompili (IT/NL) - Conversing with Matter

With material taken from the banks of the Meuse, Benedetta Pompili has created meaningful river bodies in the form of pots, river clay being a strong catalyst for all the things that end up dispersed in urban waters.

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Biobased Creations (NL) - The Exploded View

According to The Exploded View Materials & Methods, food scraps, textiles, (sewage) water and bacteria, together with local mining, 3D printing and detachability are the building blocks of the house of the future.

The Exploded View is a project of BPD, Jansen by ODS, Moodumo, Provincie Noord-Brabant, Buro Kade, Dutch Design Foundation and Biobased Creations (Company New Heroes). The Exploded View was made possible by Lectoraat BioBased Bouwen CoEBBE / Avans Hogeschool & HZ University of Applied Science, CLICKNL, Design United, Blue City, LENTE woningcorporaties, Stichting Agrodome, Primum, Greenport West-Holland, Eco+Bouw, studio ARCA, Forbo Flooring, Martens Keramiek, Ten Cate Outdoorfabrics, Energie- en Grondstoffenfabriek, Aquaminerals, ECOplex, De Wit ≠ Weismann. Together they form The Embassy of Circular & Biobased Building, composed by Biobased Creations, part of World Design Embassies a program of Dutch Design Foundation.

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BOS+ x Flanders DC x Hout Info Bois - WOOD-DESIGN

In 2020, BOS+, Flanders DC and Hout Info Bois launched the WOOD-DESIGN project. Five designers set to work with low-grade wood, less common types of wood or residual products from the sawing process.   

In hope that an innovative designer's view could provide exciting insights, Studio Plastique, NAUWAU, Utilise.Objects, Ellen Comhaire and Frederik Delbart were challenged to get to work with wood merchant Vercruysse, Marc Goossens, Cohout, IDE Woods and Thys wood. The results will be presented at the festival. With the support of Habo nv, Unilin Panels and Vlaanderen Circulair (Flanders Circular).

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Bram Van Breda (BE) with Tasibel: Natural Fibre Flooring (BE) - Resonance

Resonance is about the space between Tasibel's industrial manufacturing process and the weaver opreating the loom. With colored threadds Bram Van Breda questions the relationship between industry and handcraft and embraces the unpredictable.
supported by LUCA School of Arts

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BRUT Collective (BE) - Bodem Editie

BRUT Collective creates designs with a dark side and materials in their purest, raw form. In Bodem Editie, a scenography is dusted off like an archaeological site.

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Camille Paroissien (BE) / Kamish
- VESTLAND

With VESTLAND Kamish (Camille Paroissien) wants to translate the overwhelming power of nature into textile design. She does not aspire an exact reproduction of a natural scene, but aims to express the personale experience of nature with the roughness, thickness, heaviness and color of wool.
supported by LUCA School of Arts

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Céline Lambrechts (BE)
- From Farm to Fabric

After years of being undervalued, Céline Lambrechts wants to put the wool of local sheep breeds back on the map. She uses artisanal production processes to show the simple and pure beauty of this undervalued residual material. One reason to be happy: it just grows on their backs.
supported by LUCA School of Arts

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Charlotte Jonckheer (BE) with Mathijs Huyghebaert (BE), Olivier Coen (BE) x Lux Lumen (BE) - CPC Sculpted Light

Charlotte Jonckheer transforms paper waste and stone dust into a perfect light sculpture. The developed material, CPC – Chaud Paper Composite – opens up possibilities that no stone could ever achieve.

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Christel De Maeyer (BE) i.s.m. Jules De Pauw (BE) x Kattoo Hillewaere (BE) - Digital Twins in healthcare

One is the loneliest number. Digital twins in healthcare as digital replicas of potential and real people, systems or devices. More important than ever for the future of healthcare.
With the support of Eindhoven University of Technology (TU/e)

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Christien Meindertsma (NL) - Flax Chair

Christien Meindertsma uses the local raw materials flax and PLA to make the Flax Chair: a modern lightweight and 100% bio-based. Sit back and relax.

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Cinzia Romanin (BE) x Thomas Noceto (BE) - Terragraphies

Cinzia Romanin and Thomas Noceto make visible what the earth carries within it: using pigment from the Belgian soil, they value the element in Terragraphies.

This project was part of variations in earth (2021), an exhibition by valerie_traan curated by BC materials

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ConstructLab (BE) i.a.w. Stiemerlab (BE)
- Rafty Stiemer Expedition

With a self-made research raft Construclab analyzed the water and life quality of the Stiemer Valley. This 3-day expedition formed part of the citizen-science project Stiemerlab, a collaboration between LUCA School of Arts, VITO, Center for Environmental Sciences - UHasselt, City of Genk, and Flemish Environmental Agency (VMM) with support from the Flemish Government.

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crafting plastics! studio (DE/SK) with OFFICE MMK (DE)
- BreaZea (Breathe In/ Breathe Out)

Sustainable, non-petroleum-based folding screens with the sweet smell of the circular economy.

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Custom Territory Studio (BE) with Ambiorix (BE) - Custom Territory

Custom Territory Studio, a collective of fashion designers, product designers and local stakeholders comitted themselves to a sustainable circular model of co-creation. In this way several prototypes of a circular Ambiorix-shoe were designed based on local knowledge and recycled industrial waste such as rubber and PVC.
supported by LUCA School of Arts

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Dennis Ceylan (BE) - Laventa II

The sculptures of the Laventa series can be regarded as 'unconscious self-portraits'. They are inspired by the colossal stone heads of the pre-colombian culture of the Olmecs, such as thos found in La Venta, Mexico.
supported by LUCA School of Arts

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Dries Depoorter (BE) - Quick Fix

Want to immediately gain 200 followers or likes on Instagram for just a few euros? Quick Fix, the interactive machine from Dries Depoorter, gives you a digital boost, but above all raises a lot of questions about privacy, artificial intelligence and online control.

Commissioned by Pixelache x KIKK Festival.

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Stand Van Zaken 220421 doorzon interieur architecten / Theo De Meyer / Bram Vanderbeke (BE) - Objects of Celebration

An idea 'to build something in the courtyard' resulted in an installation in which various constructed volumes form a landscape in the museum's outdoor spaces. Only with materials from earlier scenographies in Design Museum, the installation is a perfect introduction to the new museum.

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Elias Van Orshaegen (BE) - Astor Lamp (with Robbe Stevens (BE)) x Cartes Table x Post Pandemic Love Seat x Statera (with Brent Herdewyn (BE) x Gijs Notelteirs (BE))

Using mostly discarded materials, Elias Van Orshaegen has designed a lamp, a table and a bench that bring users into post-pandemic proximity.

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Elise Eeraerts (BE) x Grond Studio (BE) - Possible Patterns

Neither soil nor brick. With geometric construction materials in rammed earth, Elise Eeraerts and Grond Studio emphasize the aesthetic contrast between raw, natural materials and handmade objects.
This project was part of variations in earth (2021), an exhibition by valerie_traan curated by BC materials

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Ellen Comhaire (BE) with Mycelia (BE) - Arc Nouveau

Fungi on your wall don’t always spell trouble: Ellen Comhaire has developed acoustic panels made from mycelium (a collection of fungus threads) and waste flows from local agriculture. Arc Nouveau and 100% circular.

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Erez Nevi Pana (IL) - Bleached

Recycled wood, luffa and homemade vegan glue form the basis for objects that Erez Nevi Pana dips into the Dead Sea. Through crystallisation, the object comes to life and takes on organic dimensions.

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Erez Nevi Pana (IL) - Vegana Banana Bag Chair (The Banana Project)

From scratch to bags, Erez Nevi Pana cultivates bananas to transform them into 100% sustainable and fully responsible beanbags and hammocks made from banana fibres.

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Fernando Laposse (MX) - Secret of Red x Pink Beasts x Totomoxtle

Fernando Laposse transforms natural materials such as loofah, sisal and corn leaves into sophisticated design. The colourful objects reveal to us, but especially to the indigenous Mexican communities, the transformative power of design.
produced by lille3000 in the framework of "Colors, etc." exhibition at Le Tripostal

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Formafantasma (IT) - Quercus (Cambio)

Today's wood industry is rotten and in need of renewal, as shown by the film Quercus with stunning images of the forrest and the engaging voice-over of philosopher and botanist Emanuele Coccia.

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Fransje Gimbrère (NL) x Soft Connection Lab (BE) - Braid to Connect

A human braiding machine once again transforms forgotten textile techniques into a creative performance. Soft, tactile production surpluses are woven into a unifying artefact.

supported by KASK & Conservatorium (HOGENT - Howest)

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Future Footwear Foundation (BE) | collab Toehold community x FFF team (BE) with BASF Heidelberg 3D printing labo (DE) - Bantu Dune x Nautula x Monti

The Future Footwear Foundation conducts research into customised 3D-printed footwear and sustainable production methods. The models are inspired by the traditional craftsmanship of several small ethnic communities, which share in the profits after marketing.

supported by KASK & Conservatorium (HOGENT - Howest)

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Futures Through Design (BE) x Job Worms (NL) - HOW TO BECOME A BAT - Multispecies Estate Craft

Out of a growing awareness that we humans are not the only ones with a perspective on the world, students, designers and artists investigated what we can learn from bats. This is no Marvel fiction, but a multi-faceted future.

supported by KASK & Conservatorium (HOGENT - Howest)

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Gilles Mayk Navangi (FR) - Biloko

The Biloko collection celebrates papier-mâché. Inspired by African culture and traditional know-how, artist Gille Mayk Navangi creates five whimsical sculptures from paper pulp.

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GLIMPS.bio (BE) x Adama Zeepziederij (BE) - Rub:ish - circular coffee soap

Coffee after coffee after coffee... We could fill swimming pools with the daily leftovers of our compiled coffee grounds. GLIMPS.bio, in collaboration with Adama Zeepziederij, is handling the waste following their principels: keep it local, keep it simple, work together and make it attractive. The result: a circular Rub:ish soap.

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Hannah Segerkrantz (NL/EST)
- Hemp-it-yourself

Strong as concrete, flexible as clay: this is Hempcrete, a CO2-negative building material made from hemp fibres. Hannah Segerkrantz explores its design and production possibilities, but in a living room format.

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haring & _voud (BE) - Achttien

achttien is a series of three prototype objects - stool, wall shelf and cupboard - made of recycled plastic. The dimensions and proportions of the furniture are determined in order to optimise the use of materials and minimise waste. At the end of their service, the pieces can be disassembled and recycled again.

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Heleen Sintobin (BE) - Gravity Claze Series

Heleen Sintobin’s ceramic artefacts seek out the tension between craft and digital processes. Although 3D printed according to a meticulous design, they undergo ‘happy accidents’ here and there, thanks to gravity.

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Hirngespinst (BE) - DE WERELD REPAREREN (workshop voor kinderen)

New ideas are born out of childlike wonder and their imagination, shaping a new MoMu: Mobile Museum, Monster Mutation, Modular Muse, Modern Mummy, ...

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HITCH x Atelier Leda (BE) - Pièce Unique 01/12 - 12/12

What’s the result of an experiment in co-creation and repurposing between versatile textile designer Leda Devoldere and the modular connection system, HITCH concept? A motley capsule collection of twelve unique and demountable HITCH stools with upholstered seat in the characteristic Atelier Leda colours.

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Hogeschool VIVES | Studenten Ontwerp- en Productietechnologie (BE) - Seaslate O.666

A facade made of beach waste from the North Sea? The VIVES bachelor programme in Design and Production Technology is creating a machine to transform plastic particles recycled from beach waste into facade slates.
supported by Hogeschool VIVES

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Hors-studio (FR) with bold-design (FR) x 8fablab (FR) - Stéréome - Semiophore x Raw-Rows

Hors-studio creates ornamental columns from the waste shells from neighbouring restaurants or shellfish industries. This ephemeral decor can return to, and merge into its natural surroundings effortlessly.

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House (under construction) - Celina Vleugels, Lisa Ijeoma, Septian Priyatna x Issa Mushidi o.b.v. Marie Mees (BE)

Four alumni of the LUCA School of Arts are creating a safe space, that is under perpetual construction, reusing not only materials, but also art and old ideas.
supported by LUCA School of Arts

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Ineke Hans (NL) x Circuform (NL) - REX

Meet REX, the Netherlands’ first ‘returnable’ chair: not only is it completely recyclable, but customers also get a deposit back when they return it. Under the auspices of Circuform, the award-winning design by Ineke Hans was resurrected using discarded materials such as office chairs, fishing nets and carpets.

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Interreg 2 Seas Plasticity Project - Lost Plastics

Pushing waste plastics into a circular economy makes plastic great again. The PlastiCity project is determined to increase the recycling of commercial and industrial plastic waste from urban areas.
supported by UGent x Apollo 18 / Saskia Westerduin
co-funded by the European Regional Development Fund under subsidy contract No. 2S05- 021 and the province of East-Flanders

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Irene Stracuzzi (NL/IT) - On Melting Ground

Irene Stracuzzi uses road salt, water and recycled polyester to create a video installation that unlocks a frozen archive: the microbiological activities of a melting Arctic lake.

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Isabeau Goddé (BE) - No Time to Waste

The lint filter in your dryer is a veritable goldmine: Isabeau Goddé turns waste fabric into compostable fabric yarn, sheets and bricks.

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Jan Klingler (DE/SE) - Bacteria lamp

The location of a first date, a personal souvenir from a wonderful trip or the memory of a distant loved one – Jan Klingler turns your personal bacteria into modern fossils in the form of a bacteria lamp.

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Jasper Morrison (UK) - Cork

Jasper Morrison, who is known for his aesthetic simplicity and everyday functionality, makes a side table, stool or ottoman out of cork agglomerate.

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Jo De Baerdemaeker (BE)
- Typo Belgiëque: Reviving Typefaces of Undiscovered Belgian Typefoundries to Create Unique Visual Identities

Typo Belgiëque breathes new life into Belgium’s historical typeface families – fonts – and previously unknown type foundries – quite literally.
A research project of LABOpro LUCA School of Arts.

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Joanna Reuse (BE) with Vrijdaghs (BE) x De Kringwinkel Ateljee (BE) - K V L O E R U M R

K V L O E R U M R (= color + shape) is a construction game for children and adolescents. The colorful objects stem from our daily lives but they are also all linked to forms of Jan van Eyck's oeuvre.
commissioned by Design Museum Gent for Kleureyck 2020

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Jojo (Johannes Annie F. Van Leuven) (BE) x Jaco Sette (Machine Elf) (BE) - Object Rage

With an arsenal of household waste and the conviction that we are all naturally creative, Jojo & Jaco fill a window display of the Design Museum with a growing range of original utensils.
supported by LUCA School of Arts.

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Kaffeeform (DE) - Kaffeeform Cups

Always on the move and thirst won’t slow us down. Julian Nachtigall-Lechner creates travel mugs and reusable coffee cups from recycled beech fibres, organic polymers and coffee grounds.

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KASK School of Arts / HOGENT x Howest (BE) x OpenStructures (BE) - OpenStructures as a transversal project at KASK School of Arts

Like Wikipedia, but for designers: various people are contributing to a growing database. Anyone can download, edit and submit designs on the OpenStructure website.

supported by KASK & Conservatorium (HOGENT - Howest)

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KU Leuven, Faculteit Architectuur, Campus Sint-Lucas Brussel (BE) - On Circular Materials and Processes

Architecture students developed experimental unfired construction materials with local and ecological (waste) raw materials, using traditional craft knowledge and contemporary innovative technology. They designed climate-friendly projects for abandoned clay pits in Flanders and former natural stone quarries in Wallonia.
supported by KU Leuven

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Laboratorium (BE) - Algae: Living Colours

A color spectrum determined by time. Laboratorium experimented with ink from algae on textile, paper and PLA, then exposed them to a weather room with UV light and humidity.

supported by KASK & Conservatorium (HOGENT - Howest) + UGent

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Laboratorium (BE) | María Boto x Heleen Sintobin with EON, UGent (BE) - Structural Colours

In terms of climate impact, the dyeing industry has quite a dark edge. Laboratorium.bio offers alternative methods, such as using nanostructures (as found in peacock feathers) or microalgae that detect pigments in wastewater.

supported by KASK & Conservatorium (HOGENT - Howest) + UGent

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Laboratorium (BE) | María Boto with LIWET, UGent (BE) - Growing Algae in Wastewater

Let the ink flow? Let the ink grow! Laboratorium grows microalgae in industrial wastewater that both purify the water and produce pigment.

supported by KASK & Conservatorium (HOGENT - Howest) + UGent

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Livable Platform | Sep Verboom (BE) with Sofalca (PT) - Hold on Cork

Sep Verboom delves into the possibilities of expanded cork, made from by-products of cork production or from cork burned by wildfires. Pressure, steam and natural binders create a solid block of cork with a dark chocolate colour.

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Livable Platform | Sep Verboom (BE) with Breezm (KR) - Lampirong Spectacles

Taking unique, translucent Capiz oyster shells, Sep Verboom creates eyewear that invites us to rethink the use of these Philippine shells, and to protect and stimulate the vital ecosystem.

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Livable Platform | Sep Verboom (BE) with Circular Matters (BE) - ONTketen

In the ONTketen project, cleantech start-up Circular Matters and design platform Livable join forces to develop alternative products free of fossil and mined raw materials. In collaboration with several design studios, reed and grass waste are given a second life in the form of switches, emergency lighting and closet storage systems.

supported by Stad Gent en de Vlaamse overheid

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Louise Silfversparre (SE) - Technofossils - Remains of the Human Epoch

Fossils are no longer strictly physical, as Louise Silfversparre shows us with her technofossils. The 3D artist brings the question of what we leave behind as human beings into sharper focus.

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Lucas Leffler (BE) - Zilverbeek

The one-time pollution of an Antwerp stream by silver originating from photographic film manufacturer inspired Lucas Leffler to reflect on digital image pollution. This resulted in sculptures made from mud, steel and silver gelatine.

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Lukas Van Quickelberghe (BE) with Coffee Based - Spaak - Kaffeeform - WoundUp - Bio-bean - Groundsup - the Potential of Coffee Waste

The power of coffee doesn't have to stop at the first consumption. Lukas Van Quickelberghe shows coffee waste as a new raw material for candle wax, food, pharmaceuticals, bio-based plastics and cosmetics.

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Maarten De Vrieze (BE) - Hybrid Cement Mixer Bike (Desire Lines / a Nomadic Process)

With his eccentric concrete-mixer bike, Maarten De Vrieze travelled through Europe on the margins of society in search of stories and alternative routes within the public space.

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Maarten Vanden Eynde (BE) - Around the World

A cotton thread 40,015 kilometres long – the average equatorial circumference of the earth – is spun around a giant spool in the shape of a rocket, because war and cotton are closely intertwined worldwide.

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Maarten Vanden Eynde (BE) - Brick Era

Bricks – man-made creations – will probably outlive us, but in what capacity?

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Maarten Vanden Eynde (BE) - Oil Eruption

Rarely does an oil eruption bubble up without a commotion

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Mae-Ling Lokko (GH/PH) - Healing Grounds

No shortage of fungus in the installation Healing Grounds which uses mycelial panels to create fertile landscapes for medicinal flora (Housing the Human & Z33 in situ project).

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Magalie Delbeke (BE) x Joanna Reuse (BE) - KNITTING SPACE

KNITTING SPACE designs a modular knitting system with endless possibilities. Neither with grandmother's knitting needles nor with industrial machines, but balancing on the border.

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Mahe Plancke - TABISU (BE): from Biowaste to Tableware, Closing the Loop

Orange peel, coffee grounds or mussel shells ... Mahe Plancke transforms them into multicoloured tableware that can simply return to the earth again through natural decomposition processes.

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Manon Lambeens (BE) - Tunneltaal

Durable, luminous messages transform a grim cycle tunnel into a safe place to pass through. As a notebook of the neighbourhood, the texts reflect what is going on.

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Margot Van den Berghe (BE) - Deconstruction of the Carpet

Left-over yarns and moth-eaten bobbins: Margot Van den Berghe finds nothing more inspiring than waste from textile workshops, which she turns into beautiful, functional carpets. Where others merely see waste, Margot sees the unexpected beauty it holds.
supported by LUCA School of Arts

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Material Mastery | Adriaan Debruyne (BE) with Weerwerk (BE) - HOOS

Give your advertising textiles, rejected seat belt webbing, locally produced zips and recycled advertising panels to Material Mastery and the Weerwerk sewing workshop, and you’ll get back magnificent and fully repairable satchels.

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Mathias Prenen (BE) - Industria x Industria (bozzetti)

Mathias Prenen came into contact with traditional earthenware during a residency in Andalusia. He uses the immediacy of the material to connect objects of today and yesterday, in both their physical and spiritual aspects.

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Matthijs De Block (BE) - The Greater Gut (Geluksbacterie)

What does happiness look like? Matthijs De Block and Professor Marjan De Mey play God in a petri dish and grow a genetically modified bacterium that could influence our sense of happiness. The work consists of 3 installations that each shed a different light on the subjects of happiness, genetic modification and the pursuit of desires.

The entire project is in collaboration with the MEMO group (Metabolic Engineering and Modelling of Microorganisms), CMET (Centre for Microbial Ecology and Technology), the IOF platform Biomolecules of UGent and Polymath Lab of LUCA | School of Arts with the support of the Flemish Government

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MyMachine (BE) - Droom-Machines

MyMachine brings together university students and technical secondary students to realise the dream machines of primary school children. A fight-solver or a machine that chases away ghosts? No longer an unattainable dream!

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Nerdlab (BE) - IT’S-A-LIAF

Looking good today! Want to admire yourself a little more in our infinity mirror box? We are sure you will see sides of yourself you never saw before… 

IT'S-A-LIAF is a conceptual installation developed by Florian Van De Voorde, Melis Deveci, Elke Rondenbosch, Siebe Jansegers, Weronika Gajda, Joris Francken, Bavo De Kuysscher and Roland Pauwels. This project is a co-creation installation facilitated by Nerdlab.

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Nicolas Erauw (BE) - TONK / Wax on – Wax off

Applying old candle-dipping techniques, a hand-built machine produces unique objects from discarded wax.

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Nina Plantefève-Castryck (BE) - Escapism

Nina Plantefève-Castryck stacks cylindrical forms into modular installations. In doing so, she reconciles contrasts in materials into a temporary whole, all the while taking care not to smooth over the traces of the traditional creation.

supported by LUCA School of Arts

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ONBETAALBAAR (BE) i.s.m. CAMPO (BE), 019 (BE) x Design Museum Gent (BE) - De Spreekstoelen

A cluster of discarded church chairs forms the symbolic starting point for De Spreekstoelen (The Pulpits), a project in which 100 church chairs form the common ground for 100 different individuals. Craftsmen, artists, local residents and designers, both young and old, known and unknown with different cultural and religious backgrounds, are given carte blanche to turn a chair into a new object. After the transformation, the church chairs return to Sint-Jacobskerk where they will preach their newly composed story. A hymn to individual imagination. Amen to that!

with the support of the Flemish Government

Sint-Jacobskerk | open on 22, 23 x 24 April + 29, 30 April x 1 May - from 14:00 to 18:00

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ONBETAALBAAR (BE) with Glimps x materiaalproducenten - Ready to Go

Spread the word (in silence)! Ready to Go is a travelling material library filled with reused treasures, a selection of recent circular materials, but above all, a lot of love for objects.

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OS_Studio (BE) x Het Leemniscaat (BE) – Variations in Earth

Earth is a material known to everyone and also a healthy primary resource. Together, OS-Studio en Het Leemniscaat transform the raw material into carbon-neutral rammed earth, a solid material with which volumes, structures and houses can be built.

This project was part of variations in earth (2021), an exhibition by valerie_traan curated by BC materials

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Paulien Nabben (NL) - Ambara

Ambara – a textile lab that works together with Rwandan artisans – embraces the use of local plant species. Good for local economic and ecological well-being.

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Peter Donders (BE) with Voxeljet (DE) - Parametric Sand Pots

Although 3D printing with sand is normally used for moulds, Peter Donders’ parametric pot concept takes the form of an independent and durable object.

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Philippe Martens (BE) with SINUM Surfboards (BE) - 6'4" ROTOR Red Western Cedar Wood & Cork Surfboard

Enjoying the natural power of water on a product made of polyurethane? Philippe Martens saw this as a paradox, and came up with a sustainable surfboard from cork, paulownia wood and bio-epoxy.

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Republiek Brugge (BE) - SerVies. Meer met fijn stof

Harvesting fine dust? Not an absurd trade in emission allowances, but a wonderful project by, Republiek Brugge, SerVies, that converts fine dust into glaze for ceramics. A look inside your coffee cup has rarely been so confrontational.

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Repulp design (FR) - Tasse Repulp

Making peel appealing. Repulp design takes Mediterranean citrus peelings and turns them into coffee cups with an entirely natural look and feel.

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Romy Di Donato (BE) - Hempanel

Hemp grows quickly with little water, has antibacterial properties and repels 90% of UV light. Romy Di Donato uses this natural ‘super-material’ to make acoustic panels.

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Rosie Broadhead (UK) icw UGent - Dr. Callewaert (BE) - Extended Synthesis (Skin Series)

Living clothing is taken very literally at Skin Series. In collaboration with UGent, Rosie Broadhead researches the advantages of encapsulating probiotic bacteria in clothing fibres.

supported by UGent

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Roxane Lahidji (FR) - Marbled Salts

Roxane Lahidji takes design with a grain of salt, literally. By mixing resin and salt, a set of tables and chairs is created. The self-binding and eco-friendly composite material, with natural colour variations due to the salt and the addition of carbon powder, evokes the aesthetics of marble.

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Samy Rio (FR) - Monozukuri

Monozukuri is Japanese for ‘the art of design and production’. Samy Rio observed the bamboo industry in Kyoto, and then developed new materials and tools that are completely in line with tradition.

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Sarah Van Looy (BE) x Sarah Vandoorne (BE) - Kleur bekennen / A Confession of Colour

Meta-level in the textile sector: 10 sustainably printed portraits on paper or textile portray changemakers, designers and researchers fighting textile paint pollution.

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Satomi Minoshima (JP/NL) & Pauline Agustoni (DE) - Craft Portrait: Dorozome

Pauline Agustoni and Satomi Minoshima are researching the Japanese mud-dyeing technique known as ‘dorozome’, in which white yarns are dyed up to 85 times until they take on a deep black colour.

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Seok Park (NL) - OFFCUT: +17,4%

More than 17.4% percent of textiles are wasted when cutting a chore coat - French work jacket - pattern. Too much according to Seok Park who quickly turned them into useful add-ons for garments.

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Sophie Rowley (NZ) - Bahia Denim stool

Production waste from the fashion industry is used as material for this unique design stool. Discarded pieces of jeans fabric were layered, stitched and cut to create intricate patterns that give the object a marble-like look.

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strtgm (SI/BE) with Ljudmila Art and Science Laboratory (SI) - Land 2.2

A web page with ‘building blocks’ plucked from the market and a 3D printer: with these tools, strtgm invites you to help build Land 2.2, a speculative geology where the political and economic mechanisms of today and tomorrow can merge.

supported by KASK & Conservatorium (HOGENT - Howest) and the Department for Culture of the Municipality of Ljubljana

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NEST (BE) - Students x alumni Textiel LUCA School of Arts (Annelotte Lammertse, Céline Lambrechts, Eline Hellemans x Jana Visser), KU Leuven Faculteit Architectuur Campus Sint-Lucas Gent (Jasper Criel x Marjolein Geyskens) x iDROPS coordinated by Caroline Voet x Marie Mees with B&T Textilia, Atelier Jan Verwerft x Mattias Deboutte (BE) x video by Basile Rabaey

NEST is a nomadic installation that combies textile design and architecture. As a tactile safe space, NEST wants to offer a secure space for encounters and connections. NEST is linked to a pilot-project of iDrops called 2Spaces, which aims to support the psychosocial wellbeing of young adults with cancer or chronic illnesses.
supported by Vlaamse overheid and Innovatie partnerprojecten Vlaamse Overheid

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Studio AMA (BE) - The Remake Sessions Alsico & Wardrobe

Imagination as a weapon against outrageous clothing consumption. Studio AMA, in collaboration with Alsico, aims to transform unused workwear into valuable fashion.

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Studio RENS (NL) - RE-VIVE

Studio RENS rolls out the red carpet, giving outdated carpet collections new life with a colorful Re-vive treatment.

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Studio Barbara Gollackner (AT) - Wasteware

In Europe alone, disposable tableware and food surpluses represent a annual waste mountain of 116 tons. Through casting processes and 3D printing with organic waste, Barbara Gollackner links the two issues together.

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Studio Corkinho (BE) - ARCH side table x ARCH stool

In the peaceful Portuguese hills, the idea arose to grind burnt cork bark into granules and then press them into solid pieces of furniture. Studio Corkinho thereby brings inner peace into the living room.

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Studio Makkink & Bey (NL) - The Waterschool

Duckweed, seaweed, insects, wood and fungi. With these five organic materials, Studio Makkink & Bey has brought together more than 30 designers, architects and artists in the impressive installation WaterSchool M4H+.

supported by the Dutch Embassy

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Studio Mieke Meijer (NL) i.s.m. NewspaperWood bv (NL) - NewspaperWood

NewspaperWood reverses a traditional production process; not from wood to paper, but from (news)paper to wood. The layers of paper appear like wood grain or growth rings of a tree and therefore resemble the aesthetics of real wood.

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Studio Narture (BE) & Under Thy Skin (BE) - Hongerhuids

Annabelle Cassiman laat zich de schimmel niet van het brood eten, maar extraheert er kleurstof uit voor lingeriestuks.
met steun van de Vlaamse overheid

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Studio Plastique (BE) with Snøhetta (NO) x Fornace Brioni (IT) - Common Sands - Forite tiles

Taking discarded ovens and microwaves, Studio Plastique, working together with Snøhetta and Fornace Brioni, transforms the currently unrecyclable electronic glass waste into glass tiles full of character.

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Studio Plastique (BE) with Bernd Weinmayer (AT) - Current Age - Lamp

A sparkling stream behind glass engages in a whimsical dance with nearby fingers. Has humanity, on the wings of Enlightenment, succeeded in caging electricity, or is it the electrons that set the pace?

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Studio Samuel Tomatis (FR) - ALGA

Follow the path from algae to design. ALGA, set up by Studio Samuel Tomatis, manufactures furniture, lighting and food packaging from one of the world’s oldest – and often highly polluting – organisms.

supported by the French Embassy

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Studio ThusThat (NL) - Red Mud Vases x TC Console (This is Copper series)

Red mud and copper slag, the unattractive waste products of the aluminium and copper industry, are given an alternative future by Studio ThusThat, in the form of ceramic vases and monolithic figures.

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Super Local for Sakaranta (NL) - Care Collection

Super Local carefully developed a collection of hospital equipment in Malawi. Not only is the equipment affordable and repairable, but the local economy also gets a boost.

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TAAT with Amandine David, Pichaya Puapoomcharoen, Siebren Nachtergaele, iDROPS, Freinetschool ’t Groen Drieske x Howest (BE) - HALL14, How to Speak as Many?

HALL14 as a portal for encounters with other-than-human entities, too often considered as ‘material resources’ instead of ‘co-creators’.

TAAT is part of the Neurodiversity Learning Network, initiated by iDROPS for Design Fest Gent 2022. TAAT is structurally supported by SoAP Foundation in Maastricht (NL) and affiliated with the RAAD research group (part of KU Leuven, department of Architecture in Ghent)

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Theo Harper (UK) - Lands End

At the very tip of the Cornish coast, Theo Harper polished a piece of granite block. Lichen is gradually reclaiming the spot, the newly created paths of curiosity are becoming overgrown, and the sea continues to pound against the rocks as before.

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Thomas Ballouhey (FR) - Free Hand Round Wall Shelf

Standard sheets of aluminium are simply cut and welded into freehand, irregular geometries. Here, the maker is not hidden behind a structured production method; his personal choices and the traces of his tools determine the aesthetics of this object.

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Tim Duerinck (BE) - Vlas cello

With wood stocks dwindling, instrument makers face a considerable challenge. Tim Duerinck has found an unexpected ally in Belgium’s native flax, however. Traditional craftsmanship combined with high-tech processes create a cello that can compete with its venerable predecessors in terms of sound quality.

thanks to KASK & Conservatorium (HOGENT - Howest) + Museum Texture Kortrijk

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UAntwerpen, Faculteit Ontwerpwetenschappen, Departement Productontwikkeling (BE) - Mattis Hoenderboom, Zeno Morel, Rens Musters x Danny Stoop (BE) o.l.v. Pieter Tieleman, Kristof Vaes x Vincent Nulens (BE) - Project TOTO | Een enkel-voetorthese voor kinderen in Madagaskar

The Product Development programme of the Faculty of Design Sciences at the University of Antwerp designs adapted ankle-foot orthoses in Madagascar. These can be realised efficiently and cheaply by local craftsmen using regional and commonly available materials.

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Unfold (BE) x Dennis Ceylan (BE)
- Clay Automaton Lab

KASK, the Royal Academy of Fine Arts of Ghent, is making its robot arm available, and design studio Unfold its expertise. With a newly assembled robot-arm clay printer, they are attempting, in cooperation with Dennis Ceylan, to print a pre-Columbian Marajoara urn for the first time.

supported by KASK & Conservatorium (HOGENT - Howest) + LUCA School of Arts, Vlaamse overheid and Colpaert-ceramics

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Unwaste (NL) - Pretty Dirty Soaps

Waste is too good to be thrown away, so Unwaste turns it into pretty dirty personal care products.

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Valerie van Leersum (NL) with Stiemerlab (BE) - Wat een Beek Weet

With five set-ups/3D collages Valerie Van Leersum Construclab reveals different sides of the water and life quality of the Stiemer Valley. This residency formed part of the citizen-science project Stiemerlab, a collaboration between LUCA School of Arts, VITO, Center for Environmental Sciences - UHasselt, City of Genk, and Flemish Environmental Agency (VMM) with support from the Flemish Government.

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Victor Verhelst (BE) & Thomas Waterzooi (BE) - Club B2B

Club B2B, a digitally remixed city, transports you to higher spheres with generative art, allowing infinite variations of existing patterns/architectural elements.
supported by LUCA School of Arts.

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Vincent Dassi (FR) - Pulp It |Pulpy Brushes

Mix recycled paper, then add some cardboard to it. Finish off with a natural glue, such as rice flour, and Vincent Dassi’s recipe is ready. The clay-like material serves as a basis for all kinds of objects, and is completely recyclable. Pure pulp? Absolutely!

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Vital Lainé (FR) - Le Café Primitif

Ashes to ashes, dust to dust. After the exhibition, the earthenware, carpets, stools, coffee tables and mugs from Le Café Primitif will have come to the end of their cycle, with no hope of reprieve.

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Zaventem Ateliers (BE) with Artistaff (BE) x Renewi (BE) - BLEND

Neither offcuts nor energy go to waste in the 32 workshops of Zaventem Ateliers: they shred their production waste into the raw materials for a unique set of recycled BLEND stools.

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