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ONTketen wins first HVDV Environment Gold Award!
2022-02-08T00:00:00+01:0008/02/2022ONTketen proves that design is no longer just about products, and that cooperation across sector boundaries pays off. With their search for ways to kick-start the circular transition, design and coaching platform Livable and green start-up Circular Matters have won the Environment Award at the Henry van de Velde Awards 2022 by Flanders DC.
Since 1994, the Henry van de Velde Awards have honoured the best designs and designers on the Flemish design scene. Organizer Flanders DC regularly adjusts the categories to the changing field. For this edition, the Environment Award was created. This awards research, systems, services and products that tackle complex social and ecological issues - such as air pollution, traffic jams or the shortage of raw materials - and are the result of a collaborative process.
With ONTketen, Circular Matters and Livable are following exactly this path. In close consultation with designers and industrial companies, they look for ways to integrate a brand new circular material into regular industry. For that material, Circular Matters transforms natural waste streams into a natural biopolymer. It forms a healthy and fossil-free alternative to hard plastics or wood-based panels.
By taking that material as a basis, ONTketen promotes shorter chains and lower CO2 emissions. "The chains of plastics are often very long and not transparent. We want to shorten these long chains in order not to shift responsibility to another link in the chain," says Sep Verboom of Livable.
COCREATION 2.0?
In close consultation with designers and industrial companies, they are looking for ways to integrate a brand new circular material into regular industry. For that material, Circular Matters transforms natural waste streams into a natural biopolymer. It thus forms a healthy and fossil-free alternative to hard plastics or wood-based plates. After an open call, Livable Platform and Circular Matters paired three production companies with three design studios;
NIKO X Esther Van Schuylenbergh
Van Hoecke X Brent Neve & Giel Dedeurwaerder
ETAP X Studio Atelier PART
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