TEDxAmsterdamWomen -Talent Night 2021 Finalist

For the fourth year in a row, TEDxAmsterdamWomen hosted Talent Night, where they opened their stage to new, undiscovered “ideas worth spreading.” This year they focused the Talent Night event on boosting the participation of younger applicants. The idea was to give particularly young talent the opportunity to share their unstoppable ideas; ideas that make the world more inclusive, to drive meaningful change, and inspire others to act with them. 

Read more information at TEDxAmsterdamWomen

Rossana Orlandi - Guiltless Plastic Award 2021 - Responsible Innovation Projects - Finalist

Rossana Orlandi is launching the third edition of the Ro Plastic Prize to challenge and inspire the design community to think differently about how objects are made. The best projects will be presented as Finalists during the Milano Design Week 2021.

Read more about the Guiltless Plastic Award at Rossana Orlandi

What design can do - No Waste Challenge -  Finalist

Initiated in collaboration with the IKEA Foundation, the No Waste Challenge called upon all creatives, hackers, and dreamers to submit bold solutions to reduce waste and rethink our entire production and consumption cycle.

Read more about No Waste Challenge at What design can do

Knitting sweaters from human hair

Human Material Loop shows that the answer to problems is often closer than you think and wants to launch a true textile revolution with their concept to show that people are not above, but equal to the ecosystem.

Read the full article on Next Nature Network

Human hair wear?

With special guest, Zsofia Kollar, founder of Human Material Loop, wait for it – an organization showing how waste human hair can be a sustainable textile of the future. Collabs with local hairdressers and textile users are welcome.  

Listen to the interview on Broadcast Amsterdam - Dam Daily radio show 

A sweater made out of human hair

As a material, human hair is abundantly present and locally produced. It is also a non-toxic, non-irritant, and anti-allergenic material. It has a strength-to-weight ratio comparable to steel, being able to stretch up to one and a half its original length before breaking.

Read the full article on Material District

Products of human hair

Introduces a new material and not just any material, but human hair material! Sustainable textile and more.

Read the full post on Club Next

Living with scents - Scented brass objects

A Scented Art of Living. A New Sense of Presence and Pleasure

Odors are perceived with every breath we take and immediately interpreted by the most ancestral parts of our brain. In recent years, researchers and practitioners, from the neurosciences to the humanities, have strived to gain a better understanding of the sense of smell, which deeply, yet often unknowingly, shapes the way we live: our eating habits, our social interactions, our emotions, memories, and even our well-being and safety. 

February 11–June 5, 2022, at Museum of Craft and Design in San Francisco

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A sweater made of human hair: is this a sustainable solution for the clothing industry?

In Europe, 72 million kilograms of human hair waste is thrown away every year. On average, hairdressers produce at least ten large bags of hair as waste every week. This ends up in landfills or incinerators. A huge shame thinks Kollar because she thinks we can use it so well. “My goal is to turn this waste into tapestries, woven stories about what we humans contribute to our planet, show the power of our diversity by using human hair as a material.”

Read the full article on Change Inc.

TEDxAmsterdamWomen -Talent Night 2021 Finalist

For the fourth year in a row, TEDxAmsterdamWomen hosted Talent Night, where they opened their stage to new, undiscovered “ideas worth spreading.” This year they focused the Talent Night event on boosting the participation of younger applicants. The idea was to give particularly young talent the opportunity to share their unstoppable ideas; ideas that make the world more inclusive, to drive meaningful change, and inspire others to act with them. 

Read more information at TEDxAmsterdamWomen

Rossana Orlandi - Guiltless Plastic Award 2021 - Responsible Innovation Projects - Finalist

Rossana Orlandi is launching the third edition of the Ro Plastic Prize to challenge and inspire the design community to think differently about how objects are made. The best projects will be presented as Finalists during the Milano Design Week 2021.

Read more about the Guiltless Plastic Award at Rossana Orlandi

What design can do - No Waste Challenge -  Finalist

Initiated in collaboration with the IKEA Foundation, the No Waste Challenge called upon all creatives, hackers, and dreamers to submit bold solutions to reduce waste and rethink our entire production and consumption cycle.

Read more about No Waste Challenge at What design can do