Royal Academy of Art, The Hague (KABK)

Master Industrial Design

The Master Industrial Design exhibits the works of this years graduates Lucy Vink and Moritz Plöns.

In “‘Dead’stock, the ghost of our clothes,” Lucy Vink explores the hidden narratives of discarded garments, treating second hand discarded clothes not as waste, but as material infused with memory. She combines shredded textiles with braiding, knotting, and patchwork to preserve fragments of the original garments—and the stories they carry—while giving them new function and purpose. Each object in the series reveals a different face of deadstock, highlighting in its own way the urgency of our growing clothing waste crisis.

“Greenhousing Saprophytes” by Moritz Plöns explores the tension between using organisms for human purposes and acknowledging non-human perspectives. Investigating microbial relationships and their ethical dimensions, the project envisions a design practice that employs micro-organisms while valuing their agency. By working with Pure Mycelium Material—cultivated, harvested, and reintroduced to its habitat— the reciprocity between human design and fungal life examined.