Studio Aikieu + Dr. Solmaz Hajizadeh Teaser

Organised by Southern Sweden Creatives, Form/Design Center, SPOK, and the Art and Science Initiative, What Matter_s is an initiative to bring together ten experimental and provocative design studios and ten innovative material researchers working in the southern Swedish region of Skåne. Over six month these ten pairs have collaborated on the exploration of cutting-edge materials that could change the future of design and science. Each of the designers has been tasked with helping to visualise the scientists’ complex research while gaining valuable access to new non-commercialised materials that could help them solve future design challenges. A group exhibition of the results is due to be exhibited during Dutch Design Week in Eindhoven between 20 and 28 October 2018.

For Dutch Design Week 2018 Studio Aikieu have teamed up with Dr Solmaz Hajizadeh to explore the material possibilities of chitin. Find all of our films for What Matter_s here.