MaterialDistrict 2027 · Midden Nederland Hallen
The solutions are here.
Now it’s a matter of how.
MaterialDistrict 2027 brings together the people, materials and knowledge needed to make more sustainable building actually happen.
Next Venue joins MaterialDistrict; twentieth edition moves to Midden Nederland Hallen
Next Venue is joining MaterialDistrict. The event activities and the brand will be taken over in phases over the coming years by entrepreneur Timo Kruft, founder and owner of Next Venue. The twentieth edition of MaterialDistrict takes place from 13 through 15 April 2027 at the Midden Nederland Hallen in Barneveld, part of Next Venue.
Material choices are never made by one person alone.
Choose your role and discover what MaterialDistrict 2027 makes relevant for your work.
Design & specification
You decide what goes into the design and the specification.
Commissioning & development
You translate ambition into a project that goes ahead.
Building & making
You have to process and guarantee it in the end.
Assessment & advice
You decide whether a choice is substantiated and responsible.
We do not lack material innovation.
Biobased alternatives, secondary raw materials, reuse, new production techniques and better building systems already exist. The challenge increasingly lies in the next step: how do you get them responsibly into a real project?
Matter of How is about that step. About designing with less and better materials. About proving performance. About scaling up. About bringing clients and builders along. About production, logistics, regulation and collaboration. And about whether we sometimes need no new material or new building at all.
Not only what we make shapes the future of building. Above all how we make, choose, use and reuse it.
Materials you can see, feel and question.
- A curated exhibition floor with materials and products for the built environment.
- An independent materials exhibition with samples you can see and feel yourself.
- A substantive programme on application, scaling, design, engineering, supply chains and regulation.
- Young Talents asking new questions about material, production and restoration.
- Producers, designers, clients, advisers and builders you can speak to directly.
- Projects and applications that show what is already possible.
A new place for a new phase
MaterialDistrict 2027 moves to the Midden Nederland Hallen.
A central place where city and countryside, construction and industry, design and raw-material chains come closer together. Part of the venue is a reused greenhouse from the Floriade in Almere: a tangible example of circularity that is not only discussed, but carried out.
Want to contribute, not only look?
MaterialDistrict is also for organisations that want to bring materials, products, raw materials, knowledge or solution directions closer to application. From established manufacturer to start-up, from raw-material supplier to collective.