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Bio-based materials
Materials grown rather than extracted. From established bio-based sources — hemp, flax, cork, bamboo, wool, straw — to living and biofabricated materials such as mycelium, algae and bacterial cellulose. Renewable by origin, and increasingly capable of matching conventional materials on performance.

26 Aug 2026
Hidden:Papers Turns Industrial Cardboard Waste Into Modular Furniture
Circular

26 Aug 2026
Scalable Mycelium Textile Offers Compostable Alternative To Leather

25 Aug 2026
Modular Timber Pavilion Designed For Repeated Use
Timber

21 Aug 2026
Living Mycelium Textile Can Renew, Repair And Biodegrade

21 Aug 2026
Eelgrass Acoustic Baffles Shape Copenhagen Listening Lounge
Biophilic & Human-Centred

20 Aug 2026
WaterLand Furniture Turns Dutch Reed And Fallen Wood Into Compostable Design

17 Aug 2026
Museumpark VONK Becomes The Netherlands’ First Large-Scale Biobased Museum
Biophilic & Human-Centred

14 Aug 2026
Buganbag Transforms Bougainvillea Waste Into Biobased Leather

10 Mar 2027
MaterialDistrict Utrecht 2027
Circular

4 Mar 2026
MaterialDistrict Utrecht 2026
Acoustic+1

12 Mar 2025
MaterialDistrict Utrecht 2025
Biophilic & Human-Centred+2

15 May 2024
MaterialDistrict Expo: Smart Materials & Circularity
Sustainable

6 Mar 2024
MaterialDistrict Utrecht 2024
Acoustic+2

11 May 2023
MaterialDistrict Expo: Super Skins
Material Futures

8 Mar 2023
MaterialDistrict Utrecht 2023
Biophilic & Human-Centred+2

14 Sept 2022
MaterialDistrict Expo: Futureproof Plastics
Smart & Responsive+1
Dennis Hauer
Dennis Hauer – Scaling up mass-timber through innovation
Alexander Beeloo
Alexander Beeloo – Timber Construction and Circular Design in Public Buildings
Shai van Vlijmen
Shai van Vlijmen – Biophilic Passive Timber Home
Ad Kil
Ad Kil – Timber as an integral part of regenerative architecture
Dave Lomax
Dave Lomax – An architecture of sufficiency – lessons from 20 years designing for mass timber construction
Luciana Dos Santos Duarte
Luciana Dos Santos Duarte – The Fabric of the Forest: how innovative rubber materials are produced in the Amazon for fashion companies

Alexandre Carpentier
Alexandre Carpentier – Miscanthus, the verdant breath of a world beyond black gold

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