Carolien Weerstand – Why waste? Questioning our relationship with waste
Carolien Weerstand is a circular designer and material researcher based in Eindhoven, and founder of Studio Weerstand. As a maker, she works hands-on with waste and residual streams, exploring their physical, cultural and systemic potential. Her practice is driven by experimentation, material research and craftsmanship, often drawing inspiration from ancient production techniques to address contemporary challenges. Through her work, Weerstand questions how and why materials become waste, and what it takes to give them new value. As a speaker, she examines our societal relationship with waste, asking why waste exists at all, how it differs from natural systems, and why older, low-tech methods can sometimes offer more resilient answers than contemporary high-tech solutions.
