Amsterdam University of Applied Sciences
PROJECTS 2022
A Hairy Issue
Malika Yunus, Britt Vendel, Aaron Bibulovic
The project set out to view human hair not as a waste product but as a raw material. The team added hair to building materials to improve their performance and lower cost.
Finalist Team
Co.Leather
Maximilian Kathan, Flor López, Marcel Brandt
Co.Leather combines coffee waste and vegan, biodegradable binders to create a leather-like biomaterial.
Flower Power Packaging
Sem Spiekman, Isabeau Stuhler, Tram Pham, Victoria Romijn
The project repurposes flower waste and turns it into a sturdy alternative to single-use packaging.
Scrappy Ink
Emma Kengen, Anoek Balemans, Lisa Nijman
The Scrappy Ink team created a set of natural inks with pigments derived from food waste.
InstructorS 2022
Laura Mudde
Laura Mudde works as an independent curator at the intersection of art and social problems. She organizes socially engaged exhibitions and works with artists and designers on complex social problems. She also teaches in the Bachelor Design for Change and Innovation program at University of the Arts, Utrecht and is a returning guest teacher at the Makerslab at Amsterdam University of Applied Sciences. To deepen her practice, she recently started a PhD research program at University of Humanistic Studies, Utrecht where she is studying what art can mean for social change towards a more caring society.
Sam Edens
Sam Edens completed the research master, Critical Studies in Art & Culture, at the Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam in 2017. She holds a BA in Engineering from the University of Applied Sciences Amsterdam, where she completed the Product Design program. Her research interests revolve around technological mediation, design ecology, philosophy, and methodology. She currently works as a lecturer-researcher at the University of Applied Sciences in both the Department of Technology and the Department of Digital Media and Creative Industries.
Marjolijn Ruyg
Marjolijn Ruyg is a designer, art director, digital pioneer, advisor, researcher, and tutor. She has a BA in graphic design from the Gerrit Rietveld Academy and an MSc in media technology from Leiden University. Her career spans more than three decades in the forefront of innovative design. Starting as a graphic designer, Marjolijn developed herself as a creative interaction designer and new media specialist. She worked on new media and cross-media projects and designed numerous publications and exhibitions. She was granted the Kids & Tools Award, for her interactive educational kid’s platform ‘KIJKRADIO’. She has more than 20 years of teaching experience at various art schools. Currently, she works as Senior Lecturer in the field of Urban Interaction Design at the Amsterdam University of Applied Sciences.
Ista Boszhard
Ista Boszhard is a concept developer and co-founder of Waag's TextileLab Amsterdam. She is also a lecturer at the Amsterdam Fashion Institute and Amsterdam University of Applied Sciences. In her work, Ista always questions the status quo and explores possible and desired alternatives for the textile and clothing industry. She empowers and connects people by building communities that want to push things forward together. She is experienced in guiding people through creative processes by combining different methods such as storytelling, co-creation, design, and scenario thinking. Being value-driven, Ista combines intuition and research into cultural studies.
Micky van Zejil
Micky van Zeijl is a lecturer in the Department of Communication and Multimedia Design at the Amsterdam University of Applied Sciences (AUAS). She develops and teaches courses in design ethics, critical making, speculative design, and prototyping. She worked with Frank Kloos and Maaike van Cruchten on the MOOC prototyping interaction. She co-hosted the Digital Ethics Conference with Senior Lecturer Charlie Mulholland, with whom she also facilitates ‘the virtuous maker designer’ workshops. Her background is in interaction design and new media studies. In 2019 she completed the FabAcademy program and in 2020 attended classes at the Textile Academy.