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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.

1 Oct 2026
Locally Harvested Reed Forms Lightweight Furniture

25 Sept 2026
Cork Flooring Used Across Australian Health Club
Acoustic

23 Sept 2026
Shimmer Jewellery Reframes Preciousness Through Brazilian Biomaterials
Sense & Sensibility

23 Sept 2026
Coffee-Roasting Side Streams Provide Colour For Packaging Ink
Circular

21 Sept 2026
Valay Turns Bamboo’s Natural Variations Into A Modular Lighting System
Sense & Sensibility

21 Sept 2026
Scentra Packaging Combines Rosemary Waste And Seaweed Binder

18 Sept 2026
UK Straw Supply Could Support 300,000 Low-Carbon Homes Annually
Net Zero & Carbon

17 Sept 2026
Recycled Chopsticks Become Custom Restaurant Tables
Circular

13 Apr 2027
MaterialDistrict 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
Bianca Zomer
















