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Material Touch Interaction

 

The 2025 Materials First feature presents an engaging interactive experience. Curved walls are embedded with a diverse range of material samples, showcasing every stage of the material lifecycle—raw fragments, semi-finished forms, and finished products. Visitors are invited to explore the transformation process through touch, immersing themselves in the evolution of materials and the creative possibilities behind design.

The area will feature materials in six categories: Touching Stories, Dystopian Stories, Tales from the Woods, Digital Dream, Guilt-Free Stories, and Sci-Fi Sci-Fact.

Experience the journey of materials and discover the essence of design through touch!

2025 Materials Highlights

Touching Stories

  • Latex Insole
  • PORON® Performance
  • FAVINI Refit
  • Roctool Soft Surface
  • Sublidot®
  • Softell™
  • Flocking
  • 3D Printing on Textile
  • 3D Knitting
  • Gmund Cotton
  • Lightmotif
  • Woola
  • Celmure™
  • Alcantara®
  • ML Engraving
  • Ultradur®
  • Eschmann Texture
  • Kvadrat Really Acoustic Textile
  • ORAC Décor
  • Hanji
  • Hanji Leather
  • Arfinio®
  • Technogel®
  • Speckled Plastic 
  • Mutina Folded
  • Velvet Touch TPE
  • ColorBo

Dystopian Stories

  • Accoya Pre-Treated Long-Life Wood
  • Deco-Deco
  • ColorBo
  • Viroc® Cement Wood Board
  • Lightweigtht Cement
  • NIR-detectable Black
  • CIRCAL Recycled AL
  • REDUXA Low Carbon AL
  • Sea Stone
  • K-BRIQ
  • Stone Cycling Waste Based Bricks® 
  • Sublidot®
  • Symbio PLA25 Biocomposite
  • Buxkin Recycled Italian Shoes
  • Alkemi Acrylic
  • Micro Texture
  • Stone-Veneer®
  • PaperFoam®
  • Kvadrat Really Recycled Textile
  • Seaweed Paper
  • Powdura ECO
  • imi-beton
  • De Castelli
  • Ecorub
  • Glass Fibre Nylon
  • Charcoal Grecipe Stone like plastic
  • FIELITZ GmbH
  • Marbled Plastics
  • Korkstone
  • richlite
  • ALPIlignum
  • Newspaperwood
  • Based Upon
  • Crystal titanium
  • Mirrors in Time
  • 3D Textures on Metal

Tales from the Woods

  • Barktex® Fabric from Trees
  • Mogu
  • Karuun® Shine 
  • Cross Laminated Surfaces
  • Raw materials 1 - Lavender
  • Raw materials 2 - Corn
  • Raw materials 3 - Wheat
  • ORGANOID® 
  • Gmund Mother Earth
  • Celoore™
  • Deco-Deco
  • Parallam®
  • Baux Pulp
  • Puretree Cork Fabric
  • Lifocork Cork Composite Resin
  • NaturePlast
  • METIS Seagrass
  • Primecork
  • Pénapalne
  • Wellboard
  • Wastea
  • Seagrass Carpet
  • Zelfo Engineered Natural Fibre

Digital Dream

  • Holographic Sheet
  • Colour Change Film
  • 3D Printed Surface
  • Polycoater
  • Starlight Beads
  • Inflated Metal
  • Metal Anodising Finishes
  • BASF - Elastollan
  • Creon Metal Surfaces
  • Lenticular Film
  • Ombrae
  • Micro Texture
  • Gabriel Chemie - Metallic Gloss
  • Knoll Frozen Fabric 
  • Self-locking 3D Printed PLA
  • Roctool Holographic Effects
  • PVD Finishes
  • Fire Edge Acrylic
  • Marbled Effects
  • Crystal Titanium
  • Sensitile - SLANT®
  • KARLITE
  • Gabriel Chemie - Laser Marking
  • Makrolon®
  • LightBlocks®
  • Deco-Deco
  • KURZ
  • Makrolon RE Recycled PC from Cooking Oil
  • Tritan®  Tenite 
  • Chemically Recycled Co-Polyester
  • Cast Acrylic
  • Deco-Deco

Guilt-Free Stories

  • SÜDPACK Compound
  • Desmopan®
  • Grecipe Bio Plastic
  • Oceanic Ocean Waste Fabric
  • SUSTONABLE
  • LNP™ ELCRIN™ 
  • Wastea Suede
  • Lifocolor BIO-C
  • YiBrick
  • FixIts
  • Omnix® ReCycle
  • BAUX Acoustic Wood Wool
  • Bencore WasBottle
  • Laedana Faux Leather
  • Flek Recycled copolyester Sheet
  • Mycel
  • Uncaged
  • C Coating
  • PA11 Arkema Rilsan
  • BAUX Recycled Acoustic PET
  • PaperFoam®
  • Waste Yarn Recycled Decorative Panel
  • PEELSPHERE®

Sci-Fi Sci-Fact

  • Petit Pli Textile
  • Fabric Manipulation
  • PARX Anti-Bacterial Additives 
  • Recycled Carbon Fibre
  • White EL
  • Thermochromic Pigments
  • Conductive Thread
  • Conductive Ink
  • Kaynemaile
  • Flexible Solar Panel
  • Keronite Advanced Surface
  • Reversacol™
  • Vectran™ LCP fiber
  • NFC Printed onto Fabric
  • Power Mesh Knit Tape
  • Sharklet
  • LayStitchTM
  • 3D Printing
  • GoodCatch
  • 3D Printing on Textile
  • Graphene Plus Coating
  • Triaxial Fabric
  • Shape memory alloy
  • Self-locking 3D Printing
  • Reflective Fabric
  • Ferrofluid

2024 Highlights