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Material Futures
Where materials are heading. Speculative and experimental work, early-stage research, biomimicry and nature-inspired design, and the cultural shifts that decide which materials we will be specifying in ten years' time.
10 Nov 2026
Glowing Mycelium Sculptures Head to Berlin Science Week
Bio-based materials+1
10 Nov 2026
Engineered Yeast Brews Purple-Blue Dye for Scarves and Cellulose
Bio-based materials
10 Nov 2026
Directly Foamed Porcelain Becomes Water Filter and Acoustic Panel
Acoustic+2
4 Nov 2026
Christien Meindertsma Receives First Paul Deiters Prize for Research-Driven Design
Bio-based materials+2
23 Oct 2026
Yeast and Gelatin Bind Sand Into Freeze-Dried Building Material for Mars
Living Materials+1
23 Oct 2026
Ori Orisun Merhav Wins Dutch Design Award for Her Work With Insect-Made Lac
Bio-based materials+1
22 Oct 2026
Pine Bark, Amber Dust and Coffee Grounds: Baltic Biomaterials at Dutch Design Week
Bio-based materials+1
21 Oct 2026
Porous Polymers Create White, Water-Repellent Surfaces Without Pigments or PFAS
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ACEMRLAnn Arbor, United States
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ADVANSAHamm, Germany
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Amarins BokmaNetherlands
Amphibio LtdLondon, United Kingdom
Amphibio is a transdisciplinary team of designers, engineers and scientists, purpose built to create radical material solutions to tackle the climate crisis. Brought together by a passion for sustainable design, they deliver nature-inspired innovations with an aim to mitigate pre and post-consumer waste ending life in landfill or incineration whilst empowering consumers to reduce their […]
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Analia SegalBrooklyn New York, United States
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Anastasiya KoshcheevaBerlin, Germany
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Ara-Coatings GmbH & Co. KGErlangen, Germany
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Basse StittgenAmsterdam, Netherlands
6 Mar 2024
MaterialDistrict Utrecht 2024
Acoustic+2
11 Sept 2024
MaterialDistrict Expo: Super Skins
Biophilic & Human-Centred
10 May 2023
MaterialDistrict Expo: Materials for Manufacturing
Sustainable
11 May 2023
MaterialDistrict Expo: Super Skins
Bio-based materials
18 May 2022
MaterialDistrict Expo: Mix ‘n’ Match Materials
16 Sept 2020
MaterialDistrict Expo: Fantastic Future
20 Apr 2022
MaterialDistrict Expo: Fantastic Future
1 Jun 2022
MaterialDistrict Expo: Fantastic Future
Indrė Mikuckė
Indrė Mikuckė – New Materiality: Interweaving Creative Experimentation and Dialogue with Nature
Jannis Kempkens
Jannis Kempkens – Biobased Material Research – A Design Perspective
Dennis Hauer
Dennis Hauer – Scaling up mass-timber through innovation
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
Philippe Gaud
Philippe Gaud – Le Labo 1.0 By Baguette Studio: What If We Owned Raw Materials Instead Of Objects?
Isa Jansen
Isa Jansen – Living Traces: Designing With Decay to Increase the Social Acceptance of Biobased Materials
Boyana Voynova
Boyana Voynova – Seed Matters
Anett Papp