D&E meetup Pt.2 - Sustainability & circular economy

Dear innovators,

We're happy to announce that our second Design and engineering meetup will take place on the 21th of November. We are again invited at the brand new Pàu HQ.

Talks will start at 7.30 pm. Before and after the talks there will be room for some networking. We will provide drinks and snacks.

We are looking forward to see you!

Sebastiaan and Thomas

SPEAKERS

Sebastiaan de Neubourg — 3D printing, the (eco)logical way.

Sebastiaan is a sideways thinker, professional dreamer and DIY entrepreneur. Founder of w.r.yuma and co-founder of Biomimicry Belgium.

The 33 year old engineer has recently launched world’s first 3D printed sunglasses from plastic waste and is on a mission to kickstart a future where waste is a concept of the past.

In his talk, Sebastiaan will tell the story on how he taught his 3D printers to make consumer products, how he uses nature-inspired innovation in his startup and share his future dreams.

Visit: https://www.wryuma.com/

Sep Verboom — Community driven design

With his label Livable, designer Sep Verboom cooperates with traditional communities in the Philippines, Indonesia and Brazil. Together with local people Verboom creates projects in which crafts, social engagement, design and human contact beautifully merge.

Beautiful examples are the FAN project (2014) in the Philippines’ Cebu City, for which he recycled the metal structure of fans and combined these with newly made rotan structures in lamps, and the Caro Barro project (2016) in the Brazilian Vale do Jequitinhonha, where he made ceramic vases that combine traditional local techniques with a contemporary design.

Line by line Verboom also integrates this knowledge into industries such as Belgian companies Vincent Sheppard, for whom he designed the Aya-collection, and Papilio, for whom he designed the Rope Rugs. Doing so, he wants to realise his final goal: a social, ecological and qualitative revolution of the traditional industries.

Visit: http://www.livable.world/