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- Repair yourself!‘Repair rather than replace’ is an increasingly popular mantra in design. As sustainable thinking is finally taking centre stage around the world, repairing existing…
- Interact in London!Materia is returning to London this spring for the second edition of May Design Series. From May 18th – 20th, Materia will be displaying…
- Growing Architecture: Living Structures from Microbes and MineralsAt the 19th International Architecture Exhibition of La Biennale di Venezia 2025, researchers from ETH Zurich and EPFL unveiled Geological Microbial Formations. This living installation…
- The future of biodesignYesterday and today, the Biodesign Challenge is taking place at the Museum of Modern Art (MoMA) in New York City, showcasing projects that use…
- Navel guitar is made with 50,000 year old kauri woodDesigner Lorenzo Palmeri designed Navel, a series of three types of electric guitars, one made of beech wood, one with a self-healing surface, and…
- On the road to a sustainable and durable futureVarious initiatives are experimenting with new materials to build more sustainable roads in the future. Many roads are made from asphalt or concrete, but…
- Review: Concrete Candies and Architect@Work RotterdamMateria’s ‘Concrete Candies’ exhibition presented concrete from many new and dynamic perspectives to visitors at Rotterdam’s ARCHITECT@WORK event, held on September 18th and 19th, 2014.…
- Material surprises at Crossovers showMateria took a special presentation to the Dutch trade show, Materials 2014, last week. We spent time in selecting 100 materials for a technically…
- From nature to naturalDoes using your smart-phone to change the colour of painted walls sound bizarre? It may be, but it is already possible in principle. The…
- What’s next for materials and design?Next week sees the first German edition of Material Xperience On Tour, the material innovation show that travels far and wide to keep you…
- Wake up call: materials can save the worldHere's a fact that few people really want to hear: the professional generation now active has to save the world. This wake-up call was…
- Local Resources and New Building Methods at Dutch Design Week 2026Explore DDW 2026 building materials, from earth bricks and wetland biomass to recycled façades and lower-carbon concrete.
- Yeast-Based 3D Printed Material Opens New Possibilities for Circular ArchitectureResearchers at Chalmers University of Technology in Sweden have created a fully biobased material using an unexpected ingredient: baker’s yeast. They designed the material…
- CORNCRETL: Corn Waste And Lime Composite For Robotic 3D Printed ConstructionMexican design practice MANUFACTURA has developed CORNCRETL, a bio-based construction material made from corn residues, recycled nejayote and lime-based aggregates. The team designed the…
