News
7 April 2025
Lianne van Roekel new programme manager NewTexEco
Since 1 April 2025, Lianne van Roekel has started as programme manager of the New Textile Ecosystems (NewTexEco) project. In the coming months, she will gradually take over the tasks of Lucie Huiskens, who is currently still acting as interim programme manager. Liaison between research and practiceLianne grew up in Nijmegen/Wijchen and has lived in […]
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 […]
20 March 2025
Daniëlle Bruggeman inaugurates as associate professor of Fashion and Sustainability at Radboud University
Daniëlle Bruggeman today delivers her inaugural address as extraordinary professor of Fashion and Sustainability at Radboud University in Nijmegen. Bruggeman has been a lecturer in Fashion at ArtEZ since 2017 and also teaches in the master’s programme Critical Fashion Practices. She is also a member of the NewTexEco programme team. In April 2024, she was […]
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 […]
5 February 2025
Collaboration in textile technology thanks to 3D Robot Knitting Winter School
The second edition of the NewTexEco 3D Robot Knitting Winter School 2025 brought together textile professionals and students to explore the limits of advanced knitting technology. Participants had the unique opportunity to work with the advanced Shima Seiki WholeGarment 3D knitting machine. Special about this winter school is the diverse background of the participants, which […]
3 February 2025
‘Care Repair’ selected within programme Design Power & Transitions
CLICKNL’s new Design Power & Transitions programme is committed to developing knowledge and methods that enable us to better design for transitions. Because whether it is about designing for a climate-proof, healthy or safe Netherlands: designing for transitions requires strengthening design power. The new knowledge and methods that design practice needs and insights into how […]
30 January 2025
Successful Textile Surgery at Arnhem Uitnacht
NewTexEco’s Tjeerd Veenhoven, in collaboration with consortium partner Mode Partners 025, held another Textile Surgery during Arnhem’s Uitnacht at the Rembrandt Theatre. For the occasion, we invited 3 experts, Kim Leemans, Merel Wicker from Leemans & Wicker and Celia Geraerdts from Blueprint Amsterdam, to analyse visitors’ garments for textile type, origin, user history and sustainability. […]
15 December 2024
NewTexEco is taking shape as research community
Since April 2024, NewTexEco’s Danielle Bruggeman is professor of Fashion and Sustainability by special appointment at the Faculty of Arts at Radboud University in Nijmegen. In this role, she developed and now teaches the course ‘Sustainability in the Fashion Industries’ at Radboud University. For this course, MA students are currently doing research for several NewTexEco partners. A fine […]
5 December 2024
NewTexEco Introduces a User-Friendly Wardrobe Study Tool
Understanding consumer behavior is key to creating a more sustainable fashion industry. Since Maldini’s groundbreaking wardrobe research (2019), studies have focused on how people buy, care for, and dispose of their clothing. These insights help inform textile manufacturers, brands, policy-makers, and consumers, providing estimates of their environmental impact in terms of water, energy, and carbon […]
4 December 2024
Measures for a future-proof textile sector
The Circular Textiles Policy Programme was published this week. Part of the National Circular Economy Programme (NPCE) in which textiles is one of the product groups for which intensive policies, concrete targets and a behavioural strategy have been drawn up. The ‘Policy Programme Circular Textiles 2025-2030’ is an important next step towards the goal: a […]
4 December 2024
New subsidy helps entrepreneurs reuse and repair
The Ministry of IenW announced last week that the ‘Circulair implementeren en opschalen‘ subsidy scheme will start in January 2025! This was partly achieved because of all the positive responses the ministry received during the consultation phase. RVO Netherlands will implement the subsidy scheme. More information on their website.