LONDON DESIGN FESTIVAL: MATERIAL MATTERS
Material Matters fair returns to Bargehouse, Oxo Tower Wharf during the
London Design Festival. The fair, which runs from 20-23 September (Wednesday to Saturday), will bring together world-leading brands, designers, makers, and innovators to investigate and celebrate the importance of materials and their ability to shape our lives.
This year's Material Matters showcases brands re-evaluating materials and find new ways of working with waste and nature. For instance, bioMATTERS, who specialises in 3D printing and robotic fabrication techniques for living materials. It develops solutions for ‘grown-living design’ for product design and architecture applications, and fabricates a wide range of biomaterials using clay, mycelium, and microalgae and bacterial based dyes. Our Selvedge top textiles picks to go and see are as follows.
Planq will launch Rezign® materials – a new collection of materials made from textile waste such as post-consumer denim, army clothing, suits and white denim. This is combined with bio-based resources like flax and jute coffee bags to create veneer, multiplex board, and flex sheet materials.
Solidwool returns to the fair and will showcase composite materials made from the Herdwick and Welsh Mountain sheep. It will also display a new Hembury side table.
Image: VivÈrdie industries, object 02. Photo courtesy of Vivian Erdtsieck. Image above: Planted by Tanja Kirst, Material Matters 2023. Photo courtesy of materialmatters.design.
ivÈrdie Industries
VivÈrdie Industries produces sustainable and closed-loop textiles. For Material Matters, it will introduce its new collection of products and furniture made from Vifour – a textile made from 95% recycled textile scraps, which are infinitely recyclable after the first use.
Image: Anett Papp. Photo courtesy of Ludman_Dániel.
TANJA KIRST
Can oranges, seaweed, pineapple and hemp be transformed into textiles without compromising on aesthetics? A highlight for this year’s edition of Material Matters will be Danish designer Tanja Kirst’s installation Planted – 10 unique textile pieces made from organic yarn.
All the yarn has been spun into various compositions at TextielLab in the Netherlands. Using Jacquard weaving, the properties of the different yarns have been processed in terms of structure, light reflection, colour saturation and intensity, conveying a geometric abstraction of natural landscapes. Tanja invites the viewer to experience new degradable and circular materials through experimental processes.
Image: Silklab. Photo courtesy of Aslı Dirik.
Silklab
Silklab is an interdisciplinary materials science lab located at Tufts University. It pushes the boundaries of material experimentalism via the powerful properties of silk fibroin and by developing biomaterials for advanced technology, global healthcare, and climate crises.
Anett Papp - Isola
Textile And Structural Designer. Her Main Areas Of Interest Are Textile Structures With Living Materials And Growing Design. At Material Matters she will showcase her Wheatgrass textiles.
Jiayan Diao - Isola
Jiayan Diao is an artist and woven textile designer based in London and China. he respects nature's geometry and principles and bases her innovative textile designs on natures compelling organic structures, using the ancient and beautiful traditional craftsmanship of weaving to develop her ideas.
Image courtesy of Yuhan Bai.
Yuhan Bai - Isola
Yuhan Bai is dedicated to the research of biodegradable material, future materials, womenswear design, and biological material derivative design. Her works are based on sustainable development and focused on lifestyle and use agricultural and kitchen waste as major raw materials for creation. Her design concepts have always been centred on the topic of sustainable development and commensalism combined with spiritual perception, thinking about the material and non-material. She also uses natural waste and digital technology to achieve a multi-dimensional connection between matter and ecology, to explore the possibilities of how people can connect with nature and achieve a sustainable lifestyle in an era of rapid technological development.
London Design Festival is taking place from 16 - 24 September 2023.
See the full programme and find out more here:
www.londondesignfestival.com
@l_d_f_official
Find out more about Material Matters:
materialmatters.design
@materialmatters.design
London Design Festival. The fair, which runs from 20-23 September (Wednesday to Saturday), will bring together world-leading brands, designers, makers, and innovators to investigate and celebrate the importance of materials and their ability to shape our lives.
This year's Material Matters showcases brands re-evaluating materials and find new ways of working with waste and nature. For instance, bioMATTERS, who specialises in 3D printing and robotic fabrication techniques for living materials. It develops solutions for ‘grown-living design’ for product design and architecture applications, and fabricates a wide range of biomaterials using clay, mycelium, and microalgae and bacterial based dyes. Our Selvedge top textiles picks to go and see are as follows.
Planq will launch Rezign® materials – a new collection of materials made from textile waste such as post-consumer denim, army clothing, suits and white denim. This is combined with bio-based resources like flax and jute coffee bags to create veneer, multiplex board, and flex sheet materials.
Solidwool returns to the fair and will showcase composite materials made from the Herdwick and Welsh Mountain sheep. It will also display a new Hembury side table.
Image: VivÈrdie industries, object 02. Photo courtesy of Vivian Erdtsieck. Image above: Planted by Tanja Kirst, Material Matters 2023. Photo courtesy of materialmatters.design.
ivÈrdie Industries
VivÈrdie Industries produces sustainable and closed-loop textiles. For Material Matters, it will introduce its new collection of products and furniture made from Vifour – a textile made from 95% recycled textile scraps, which are infinitely recyclable after the first use.
Image: Anett Papp. Photo courtesy of Ludman_Dániel.
TANJA KIRST
Can oranges, seaweed, pineapple and hemp be transformed into textiles without compromising on aesthetics? A highlight for this year’s edition of Material Matters will be Danish designer Tanja Kirst’s installation Planted – 10 unique textile pieces made from organic yarn.
All the yarn has been spun into various compositions at TextielLab in the Netherlands. Using Jacquard weaving, the properties of the different yarns have been processed in terms of structure, light reflection, colour saturation and intensity, conveying a geometric abstraction of natural landscapes. Tanja invites the viewer to experience new degradable and circular materials through experimental processes.
Image: Silklab. Photo courtesy of Aslı Dirik.
Silklab
Silklab is an interdisciplinary materials science lab located at Tufts University. It pushes the boundaries of material experimentalism via the powerful properties of silk fibroin and by developing biomaterials for advanced technology, global healthcare, and climate crises.
Anett Papp - Isola
Textile And Structural Designer. Her Main Areas Of Interest Are Textile Structures With Living Materials And Growing Design. At Material Matters she will showcase her Wheatgrass textiles.
Jiayan Diao - Isola
Jiayan Diao is an artist and woven textile designer based in London and China. he respects nature's geometry and principles and bases her innovative textile designs on natures compelling organic structures, using the ancient and beautiful traditional craftsmanship of weaving to develop her ideas.
Image courtesy of Yuhan Bai.
Yuhan Bai - Isola
Yuhan Bai is dedicated to the research of biodegradable material, future materials, womenswear design, and biological material derivative design. Her works are based on sustainable development and focused on lifestyle and use agricultural and kitchen waste as major raw materials for creation. Her design concepts have always been centred on the topic of sustainable development and commensalism combined with spiritual perception, thinking about the material and non-material. She also uses natural waste and digital technology to achieve a multi-dimensional connection between matter and ecology, to explore the possibilities of how people can connect with nature and achieve a sustainable lifestyle in an era of rapid technological development.
London Design Festival is taking place from 16 - 24 September 2023.
See the full programme and find out more here:
www.londondesignfestival.com
@l_d_f_official
Find out more about Material Matters:
materialmatters.design
@materialmatters.design