News
4 June 2025
BYBORRE voted Coolest Dutch Brand
Amsterdam – Coolest Dutch Brand Our consortium partner BYBORRE has been named Coolest Dutch Brand of the Year by FONK Magazine – a prestigious recognition for brands that carry sustainability to the core of their mission. BYBORRE is not just about redesigning textiles, but about redesigning the entire textile chain. Transparent, on-demand and with an […]
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, […]
22 April 2025
Does bamboo have a future in Europe? Read the story behind the research ‘Bamboo Europe’ of Crissi Apostolidis and Tjeerd Veenhoven
Bamboo grows fast, enriches poor soils and absorbs lots of CO2. Until now, we mainly imported this type of wood from Asia. But with the introduction of a large-scale bamboo plantation in Europe, there is now more room for research into building a sustainable bamboo value chain. That was precisely the aim of the research […]
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 […]