15 September 2025

Meet us @ Dutch Design Week

Dutch Design Week celebrates a quarter-century of shaping the future. Under the theme Past. Present. Possible. DDW looks back on its legacy, showcases today’s creative energy and explores what design can become. A platform where ideas come together, possibilities open up and the future is shaped together. Of course we will be present! Our programme: […]

9 September 2025

Understanding sustainable clothing and consumer behaviour

Understanding consumer behaviour is essential for a more sustainable fashion industry. Since Maldini’s pioneering wardrobe study (2019), we know that the way people buy, use, care for and discard clothes plays a major role in the environmental impact of textiles. This is why NewTexEco is introducing the Wearer Dashboard, a user-friendly tool that allows researchers, […]

3 September 2025

Launch Knit2Last: from waste to innovation

Knit2Last is an innovative step towards circular and smart knitwear production made possible by the KIEM HighTech 2025 grant. The textile industry is among the biggest environmental polluters worldwide. Large waste streams are created during production, while discarded textiles have limited circular recycling. Our NewTexEco partner New Industrial Order (N.I.O.) is developing smart, local on-demand […]

16 July 2025

Together we design new stories for fashion

ReFan: a shared future vision for a fair, sustainable clothing culture What if we reinvent fashion?What if branded clothes went out of fashion?What if every child learns to sew and knit?What if every garment is as unique as every human being? On 19 June 2025, more than 45 pioneers from the fashion and textile chain […]

30 June 2025

Loopholes: toolkit for system change in the fashion and textile sector

A roadmapping toolkit for those who want to make work of circular innovation As a designer, company, policy-maker or teacher, how do you shape a circular textile chain? Loopholes offers a practical and strategic answer. This Circular Innovation Roadmapping Toolkit helps users to initiate structural change from different perspectives. Think about developing circular business models, […]

11 June 2025

Floor van der Holst started as network coordinator

From 2 June, Floor van der Holst will strengthen the NewTexEco team in the position of Network Coordinator. In this role, Floor combines her research activities within Saxion University of Applied Sciences’ Sustainable and Functional Textiles Research Group with connecting partners within the NewTexEco network. Floor’s main task is to actively engage NewTexEco’s partners, with […]

4 June 2025

Project partner Zeefier wins Green Concept Award 2025

Berlin – Green Olympics Edition | Category: Interior & Lifestyle We are proud to congratulate our partner Zeefier for winning the Green Concept Award 2025 for the project ‘From Dutch Wool and Seaweed’ – a locally produced carpet made of Dutch wool, dyed with environmentally friendly seaweed-based pigments (see image below this post).This prestigious prize […]

14 May 2025

Positive SPRONG monitoring underlines progress and cooperation

Two years after the start of the programme, NewTexEco has taken an important step. The recent SPRONG monitoring confirms that the programme is on track, with visible progress in building our network and cooperation within the consortium.The committee expressed appreciation for the development of the programme, calling the progress since last year “significant”. It also […]

13 May 2025

Daniëlle Bruggeman: system change starts with cooperation

In the interview below with FashionUnited, Daniëlle Bruggeman argues for a fundamental overhaul of the current fashion system. Instead of focusing on production and consumption, she emphasises the importance of care, repair and multiple ways of experiencing fashion. The article also cites the new Care & Repair project, in which MilieuCentraal, ClickNL, Hogeschool van Amsterdam, […]

31 March 2025

Retrospective: LabTour Saxion Circular Textile Lab

During Circular Economy Week, Saxion Circular Textile Lab organised an exclusive tour. Led by Associate Lecturer Carlos Kuhlmann, participants discovered how old fabrics are transformed into new materials and how knitting silver yarn can lead to textile sensors for medical applications. Sustainable textile production The Sustainable & Functional Textiles professorship presented innovative chemical-mechanical processes and […]

28 March 2025

Kick-off project Designing Ecosystems for Care & Repair

Tuesday 27 March saw the official kick-off of Designing Ecosystems for Care & Repair (hereafter Care & Repair). This programme, stemming from our research community NewTexEco, was recently selected from 51 submissions by CLICKNL. As many as 25 companies and institutions have shown interest in Care & Repair. The project investigates what systemic solutions are […]

14 March 2025

Transition in the fashion industry: what went wrong?

Twan Eikelenboom zooms in on the transition in the fashion industry in the recently published Design Innovation Update #2. Where did things go wrong? Which designers and researchers are at the forefront working on solutions? And what is needed for a system-level transition? These updates are based on the insights from the Design Innovation Sessions […]