The New Blue project stems from a desire to rethink the notion of recycled materials and create a truly circular product lifecycle by reimagining how to recycle jeans.
Portrait of the project New Blue for the Dutch Design Week (Digital) 2020, together with DesignFarmBerlin:
The Embassy of the Netherlands in Berlin presents a series on New Materials in Architecture, Design and Fashion for a future circular economy:
Credits:
This project was initiated at weißensee academy of art Berlin at the Textile and Surface design department as M.A. graduation project under supervision of Prof. Dr. Zane Berzina, Prof. Dr. Lucy Norris and Dipl.-Des. (academic assistant) Christian Frank Müller.
This project received funding from Re-FREAM (European Union's Horizon 2020 research and innovation programme) in 2021, DesignFarmBerlin (Europäischer Sozialfonds) in 2020 and the DAAD Abschluss Förderung in 2019.
This project was generously supported by charity organisation Textilhafen.