Material Innovation for a Circular Economy
ANCB The Aedes Metropolitan Laboratory · Berlin
9 September 2020

All over the world, designers are striving to transform our economic system into a circular economy. They are looking for materials that can circulate in closed cycles and whose use has no negative impact on the environment. It is also about discovering new material resources and, for example, making natural residues from the agricultural and food industries usable for design and architecture. In the future most innovations are expected especially in the biological cycle.
ANCB The Aedes Metropolitan Laboratory, in cooperation with the Dutch Embassy Berlin, is organizing a program in autumn 2020 with the title “All Good (s): New Materials in Architecture, Design and Fashion for a Future Circular Economy”. The German-Dutch program examines the role and application of innovative new materials in architecture, design and fashion. Hon.-Prof. Dr. Sascha Peters had presented some of the latest material innovations for the circular economy of the future and took a look at some exciting research.
Program
17:00
Meet & Greet, Aedes Cafe
18:00
Welcome and Introduction
Hans-Jürgen Commerell, Director, ANCB The Aedes Metropolitan Laboratory, Berlin
Valérie-Anne Houppermans, Cultural Attaché, Embassy of the Kingdom of the Netherlands, Berlin
18:15
10 x 10 presentations
Sascha Peters, Director, HAUTE INNOVATION. Agentur für Material und Technologie, Berlin
Michelle Baggerman, Designer and Director, Bureau Baggerman, Eindhoven
Claudia Lüling, Professor for Architecture and Design, Frankfurt University of Applied Science
18:45
Discussion moderated by Ilka Ruby, Ruby Press, Berlin
19:00
10 x 10 presentations
Menno Rubbens, Director and Project Developer, cepezedprojects, Delft
Christiane Sauer, Professor for Material and Design, Weißensee Academy of Art, Berlin
Bob Hendrikx, Biodesigner, Founder Loop, Researcher TU Delft & MIT Media Lab Boston
19.30
Discussion moderated by Ilka Ruby, Ruby Press, Berlin
19.45
10 x 10 presentations
Regine Rapp, Co-Director, Art Laboratory Berlin
Thomas Auer, Professor, TU München and Managing Director, Transsolar KlimaEngineering, Stuttgart
Friederike von Wedel-Parlow, Professor and Director, Beneficial Design Institute, Berlin
20:15
Discussion and Q & A with audience moderated by Ilka Ruby, Ruby Press, Berlin
image source: Diana Drewes
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