What Design Can Do About What Design Can Do What Design Can Do (WDCD) is a platform for the advancement of design as a tool for social change. Since its inception in 2011, WDCD has...

Closing the Loop How could fashion and clothing designs using locally-produced fibres be incorporated into a circular production system, and how should locally-produced ‘fashion’ be marketed? In the same way we market organic...

Composing the new Carpet Composing the New Carpet is a research project by the Centre of Expertise Future Makers ArtEZ working together with Modint, product designers, carpet manufacturers such as Bonar and WageningenUR.The research...

Going Eco Going Dutch   This project is unique due to the fact that, from the start, all partners are working together on the development of the textiles and every step in the process is...

The Future of Living Materials In the context of all social, environmental, economic and political problems of the current fashion industry, there is a great urgency to deal in a more ethical way with (raw) materials, and...