Chiel Lubbers

Designer motivated by the resonating, rippling structures in natural and agricultural landscapes. Through exploring and comparing these natural structures and growth patterns, I create compositions in textiles, fashion, and bio-based sculptures that reveal the ecological connections between human and non-human entities.

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Other Ways of Living
Documentary Series Waterbear in collaboration with Ellen MacArthur Foundation and Future Materials Bank 
Season 1 episode 2, How We Make

All around the world, people are beginning to transition away from a linear economy. Instead of taking materials from the Earth, making them into products, and then throwing them away, new methods are being developed to keep the things we make in circulation, eliminating waste and regenerating nature in the process. This is Other Ways of Living. A show where Matt Shea, award-winning journalist and documentary filmmaker, finds what's happening in the world of circularity, and whether we can apply it to our lives right now.

Alongside the WaterBear platform, I participated in the documentary series 'Other Ways of Living', released in the May of 2024. WaterBear is a platform that highlights positive solutions for our changing world. The work is presented as a biocouture garment made from patterns of protein fibers and cellulose extracted from celery. The composition brings our inner anatomy outward through the analogy of fibers inside human and vegetal tissue.

Watch Other Ways of Living. Exclusively on @waterbearnetwork
https://www.waterbear.com/watch/other-ways-of-living

@waterbearnetwork in collaboration with @ellenmacarthurfoundation