Channel
Circular
Materials designed to be used again. Reuse and recycled content, design for disassembly, material passports, urban mining, and products made from waste streams. As circularity moves from ambition into regulation, this is where the practical answers are.
Materials
View all 565 materials in Circular →
Six Million Reclaimed Roof Tiles Build a Museum Near Hanoi
Martin Kechayas Named Designer of the Year for Furniture From Residual Wood
Hempcrete and Tasmanian Oak Turn Hobart Warehouses Into a Campus
Wooning and David Derksen Turn Rotterdam’s Port Into Bathroom Accessories
Unstabilised Rammed Earth Walls Anchor a Wiltshire Country House
Hand-Picked Birch Plywood Lines a 24 m² Shipping Container Retreat
Christien Meindertsma Receives First Paul Deiters Prize for Research-Driven Design
Ten-Storey Timber Tower in Delft Does Without a Concrete Core
Ignorance is Bliss is a continuous design project founded by Agne Kucerenkaite. The research-based project utilises industrial waste and secondary materials and converts them into interior and exterior products of higher value. Ignorance is Bliss is giving a new identity to waste and to the built environment, with empathy for planetary health. The foundations of […]
Atelier LVDW is the material design studio of Laura van de Wijdeven, based in Rotterdam The Netherlands. She researches the future of sustainable and circular materials with a biophilic point of view. Her goal is to enrich interiors by the use of organic waste streams and bio-based matter. Subconsciously connecting its user with nature by […]
BESE designs and sells products that are 100% biodegradable. They provide a temporary kick-start agent, that restores an ecosystem and degrades over time, leaving only a natural system behind. The products are also biobased, using waste streams like potato starch and shells. Started in 2018, the team of BESE-products is based in the Netherlands. The […]
MaterialDistrict 2027
MaterialDistrict Utrecht 2025
MaterialDistrict Utrecht 2024
MaterialDistrict Expo: Sustainability Meets Design
MaterialDistrict Utrecht 2023
MaterialDistrict Expo: Healthy Heroes
MaterialDistrict Expo: Rethinking Plastic!
MaterialDistrict Expo: Full Circle
Michiel Dekkers – Five keys to a successful circular business model
Tom van Soest – Crafted to look great. Made to Matter
Ward Massa, Camilo Restrepo & Alasdair Bremner – Rethinking how materials are made
Lotte Douwes – Fragments of Wonder — a reflection of change
Niels Monsieurs – Palet: Making unique tiles at scale
Robert Platje – Circular Wood Construction: The Future of Construction
Alexander Beeloo – Timber Construction and Circular Design in Public Buildings
