This Future Materials Encounter hosted a talk on fungal mycelium uses in art, design, and architecture, led by Maurizio Montalti, founder of the Amsterdam-based innovation studio Officina Corpuscoli. Encouraging participants to critically reflect upon material economies within artistic and design practices, Maurizio shared his expertise on the development of new fully circular, biologically based, and environmentally friendly materials he has developed and brought successfully to market,...

In this Future Materials Encounter, Giulia Bellinetti, coordinator of the Jan van Eyck Future Materials programme, talks with material designer Eline ten Busschen and designer, artist, researcher Pei-Ying Lin about wool and new technologies applied to weaving techniques. They discuss ecologies of materials and complex systems, materials' temperament that emerge during experimentation, A.I. and the blurring of boundaries between natural and digital realms in textile design.  Eline ten...

Dorieke Schreurs and Jesse Adler, Future Materials Fellows at the Jan van Eyck in 2022/2023, have developed two different but complementary research strands on the future of pigments and colours. Interviewed by Pleun van Dijk, curator of the Future Materials Bank, Dorieke and Jesse share their knowledge on the environmental impact of acrylic pigments, on the challenges of developing sustainable paint alternatives, and on the opportunities emerging from the fungal world.    Jesse Adler is...

Is pollution an external evil entity or a product of internalized cultural myths? This is one of the questions Rotterdam-based designer Gaia D’Arrigo poses through the fictional character CiucciaNebbia (literally translated as Fog-sucker). In conversation with Giulia Bellinetti, coordinator of the Future Materials programme, Gaia introduces the mythological figure of the Ciuccianebbia and the homonymous multimedia project. Following the Ciuccianebbia in its multiple manifestations, Gaia and...