From Waste to Wonder: Redefining Our Relationship with Materials In a world driven by disposability and shallow innovation, Simone de Waart has spent decades focusing on the essence: materials. As the founder of Material Sense and its experimental offshoot Material Sense Lab, she is at the forefront of a transformation that goes far beyond sustainability. Her mission? To fundamentally shift how we use, value, and understand materials. Pioneering Texture and Tactility Simone b

new material development of waste-based and biobased leather composites.