Post by Marjanne Cuypers-Henderson

They only had three days. Three!! My mind is blown 🤯 What happens when you introduce a new material to curious creative minds and give them a challenge, guidance, tools and an almost impossible deadline? Have a look at the results created by the incredibly talented students of Willem de Kooning Academy Rotterdam, who were asked to design a flat-pack product, including packaging, for the New Store at het Nieuwe Instituut. The material was a given: one 400 × 400 × 12 mm sheet of SeaWood Materials. You can read more about the project, results and the students in this article: https://lnkd.in/eApUAgfs Thank you so much Bas Kortmann for coordinating this design sprint. Thank you Nadia Troeman and Klaas Kuitenbrouwer from the New Store / hNI for your regenerative initiatives and support in making this happen, and Niels Spaans for the beautiful photography. And of course, a big big thank you and so much admiration for the students. It is incredibly inspiring to see what you achieved with your talent, skills and drive in such a short time. You leave us a little speechless, but also a little louder: you materialised a vision of regeneration and what is already possible today. One of the many reasons we love working with education and forward organisations like het Nieuwe Instituut. P.S. Dr. ir. Laura Lee Stevens also here: #LifesPrinciples #CultivateCooperativeRelationships #biomimicry 💙