Mecca X NGV Women in Design Commission

Known for her game changing thinking and groundbreaking approach to design, Netherlands-based designer Christien Meindertsma asks us to imagine a new material future, enabled by creativity, ecological thinking, and emerging technologies.

Meindertsma uses design to investigate complex problems, and in her most recent research she has developed a new fabrication method using waste and recycled wool that demonstrates the material’s unique properties and potential uses.

For the Commission presented at NGV in October 2024, Meindertsma will produce her most ambitious work to date; a large-scale form made from European wool that would be otherwise disposed of, revolutionising the ways that waste wool can be repurposed. Developing a world-first robotic technology for 3D felting in collaboration with Netherlands-based company Tools for Technology, the designer will show us how it is possible to build structural, three-dimensional objects from wool.