in Eindhoven, held from October 19–27, featured projects from CARADT researchers engaging with themes of sustainability, technology, and design innovation.
Simone van den Broek – “Levend Goud” exhibition
Simone van den Broek presented the mycelium jewellery collection Levend Goud (Living Gold). This collection incorporates jewellery with mycelium—a type of fungal material—highlighting mycelium’s potential in jewelry design for its versatile, biobased properties. Levend Goud was displayed in collaboration with Do Collection at Sectie-C during Dutch Design Week.
Delfina Fantini van Ditmar – Regenerative Pedagogy at New Order of Fashion (NOOF) LAB
Professor Delfina Fantini van Ditmar participated in a peer-to-peer session at the New Order of Fashion (NOOF) LAB, which explored themes under the title Regeneration: From the Source. This program included exhibitions and workshops on regenerative design methods, such as utilizing seaweed as a sustainable resource. Fantini van Ditmar joined designers and educators to examine how regenerative concepts are taught in different educational environments. More on NOOF LAB and its programming is available here
Risk Hazekamp – Societal Impact of Applied Design Research
At the symposium Societal Impact of Applied Design Research on October 21, researcher Risk Hazekamp elaborated on their chapter in the new publication of the Network Applied Design Research (NADR). The symposium was set up as a participatory workshop where the writers of the different chapters of the book introduced their work through a both verbal and visual exchange with the audience. Risk’s chapter entitled “You press the button, we do the rest.” – How to cede agency to the more-than-human? is part of the section of the book with the theme Beyond Solutionism, design without end. This section focuses on how design researchers balance their optimistic desire to bring about positive change, with the limitations of controlling a complex and constantly evolving socio-technical ecosystem. In other words, how do design researchers respond to the limited ‘makeability’ of society?
‘The ultimate goal is to provide people with the information, skills and tools that enable them to improve the quality of their daily lives.’
Simone van den Broek is a researcher within the Situated Art and Design research group, and a tutor for the Communication & Multimedia Design programme at Avans University of Applied Sciences in Den Bosch.
‘How can art and design cultivate critical expressions rooted in ethics of care and relationality to influence ecological, social, and economic structures?’
Delfina Fantini van Ditmar, PhD, focuses on ecological design and reflective practices as Professor of Biodesign and More-than-Human Perspectives. With a background in biology and design research, she explores paradigm shifts and material ethics, advancing regenerative and more-than-human perspectives
‘It is through the “not-knowing” that a stimulating and caring environment can be created to confidently share vulnerability.’
Risk Hazekamp is researcher within the Biobased Art and Design research group and tutor for the Art & Research study programme at St. Joost School of Art & Design.
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