PLATFORM FOR
BIO BASED STUDIES

The Material Way is a new collaborative platform for material-based studies focused on supporting curious creators who strive to craft a more holistic, local, and nature-minded future. This initiative was founded by Curator Rita Trindade (Through Objects) and Creative Director Bonnie Hvillum (Natural Material Studio) and it emerges as a natural extension of their previous collaboration on providing online courses on local biomaterials.

INTERNATIONAL PROGRAM

With the intention of evolving a network that brings makers, and designers together, The Material way will gather established artists and researchers as guest lecturers in one international program: Local Bio-based Materials. This online course has a duration of 9 intensive months (February to October 2025) with theme-based weekly sessions. The culmination of these courses will be an in-person gathering and showcase.

FOUNDERS

BONNIE HVILLUM
Founder of Natural Material Studio, a Danish cross-disciplinary design company that drives toward expanding our collective understanding and relation to materials. The studio works from a renewable and circular point of view, with both science, biology, technology, design and art as the building blocks to create the new normal for sustainable living.
RITA TRINDADE
Rita Trindade is a Portuguese creative who merges her passion for human-crafted objects with her professional background in design and communication. In 2017, she founded Through Objects with the intention of sharing compelling narratives within contemporary objects.

MAIN LECTURERS & GUEST CURATOR

ALBERTE HOLMø BOJESEN

BIO BASED & GROWN MATERIALS

SARMITE POLAKOVA

FOUND MATERIALS/RESEARCH

BENEDETTA POMPILI

EXCAVATED MATERIALS / RESEARCH

ANNOUNCED SOON

CURATION/SPACIAL DESIGN
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