Nature Tech Materials for Interior and Design

The transition to a circular economy poses major challenges for the furniture and interior design industry. Entire product groups are about to be redesigned, establishing a new understanding of materiality and giving new meaning to responsibility for the resources used.

Biocircular solutions in furniture design

In this context, the new economic logic should function in harmony with nature. This applies above all to sectors in which a large proportion of natural materials are traditionally used. A new generation of so-called Nature Tech Materials is currently being developed, which will offer a variety of solutions for some of the greatest challenges of our time.

Whether lightweight construction solutions using fast-growing annual plants, plastic-free materials for upholstered furniture or cement-free binders for mineral materials: biocircular materials not only offer options for significantly reducing CO₂ emissions, they also help to close product and material cycles and, incidentally, open up new product fields and business models in the furniture industry in an extremely ‘likeable’ way.

In his keynote speech, Prof Dr Sascha Peters will present some of the latest innovations in nature tech materials and highlight the growth potential of the transformation of the furniture industry towards a circular economy. In doing so, he will address new business models that are emerging in particular through the use of biocircular material innovations.

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