exhibits

The Meat Factory by Shahar Livne is a series of material experiments that creates a dissonance between natural and industrial production. The focus is on the production of bio leather from waste materials from the meat industry and the use of blood as a dye and plasticizer.

Needle Probes by Irene Posch adapts tools for manual work to the needs of textile electronics and thus enables the creative expansion of the field.

MOGU Home is a product line that includes elastic floor coverings, thermal insulation panels, sound-absorbing modules, decorative tiles, and wood-based materials. Only mycelia, the filamentous cells of a fungus, are used as binding material.

Fruitleather Rotterdam developed a new, environmentally friendly process that converts leftover fruit into a durable leather-like material from which shoes, handbags, and other products will be made in the future.

Piñatex by Ananas Anam is a natural, nonwoven material made from pineapple leaf fiber which can be used as an alternative to leather and petroleum based textiles.

FluidSolids is an innovative technology developed in Switzerland to produce biodegradable composite materials. As it uses residuals and waste materials, its environmental impact is minimal.