Visit · Product & furniture designers
Discover what materials make possible.
For product and furniture designers, material is not a finish afterwards. It is often the start of the design. New raw materials, composites, fibres, sheet materials and production techniques open other ways of making.
From property to form
How does it bend? How strong is it? Can you press, mill, print, stitch, glue or repair it? And what happens if you reverse the product logic and start from the raw material?
Matter of How for makers
Innovation sits not only in what something is, but in how you make with it. Production technique, joint, disassembly, repair and reuse help determine the impact a product ultimately has.
What you find here
MaterialDistrict brings material developers, producers, raw-material suppliers and young designers together.
- Discover new material properties and applications.
- Speak to producers about small series, custom work and product development.
- See how residual streams and biobased raw materials can become new products.
- Meet Young Talents who are re-examining material and making process.
- Find partners for prototypes, pilots and scaling.
Take new material questions with you
Come not only to find answers, but also better questions. That is often where the next product begins.