ONE WEEK ABOUT Driving Dutch Design by curators Patrick Aarts Sen (BNO) and Katja Lucas (DDF). Over the next few days, we show the Drivers of 2024, Nicky Vollebregt is one of them.
Textile, object and product designer Nicky Vollebregt is guided in her search for new forms, structures and patterns by craft and industrial techniques, mainly within textiles. She immerses herself in these techniques, exploring their possibilities and trying to push their boundaries. This hands-on process leads to refined materials and objects ranging from functional to sculptural.
Nicky questions throwaway society, consumerism and the role design can play in it. From a conceptual and speculative approach, she investigates how material and immaterial values from craft and innovation can come together in contemporary design. Together with other designers and professionals active within sustainability themes, Studio Nicky Vollebregt initiated scientific research into emotionally sustainable design, in which the design process tries to promote the future emotional bond between object and owner.
These themes are reflected in Nicky’s applied work, as in her ongoing research into woven structures as a medium to shape, with material, form and function, the future experience of her designs. Part of this is the recent project Pollia, a series of textile sculptures that explores the synergy between machine precision and manual imperfection, thereby exploring the experience of craft and industrial production.
Driving Dutch Design is the professionalisation and networking programme of Beroepsorganisatie Nederlandse Ontwerpers (BNO), Dutch Design Foundation (DDF) and Stichting Stokroos that helps talented designers get started in the world of entrepreneurship.
