C-Dutch: Circular design using the cultural heritage

C-Dutch is a collaborative project with the Dutch Open Air Museum (NOM), Studio Ineke Hans, designer Noud Sleumer and lecturer-researchers Tjeerd Veenhoven, Michelle Baggerman and second-year students of ArtEZ BA Product Design. NOM wants to actively contribute to a sustainable society with its knowledge of materials, products, services and cultural traditions that have functioned within circular communities for centuries. Despite technological innovation and globalisation, the question is whether this historical knowledge can contribute to a (future) circular society. 

NOM seeks to collaborate on a regular basis with the creative sector in order to achieve measurable impact within and outside the museum for the transition to a circular society. To this end, it would like to make its collection and knowledge accessible to designers. Important practical questions are: How can relevant NOM knowledge be made accessible to designers? How do you and designers create the desired impact for a sustainable and circular society?

Project management: Jeroen van den Eijnde, Jorn Konijn
Researchers: Michelle Baggerman, Ineke Hans, Noud Sleumer, Tjeerd Veenhoven,
Budget: €30,000