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DDW 2026 Designers: Back to the Flax | The Hitch Collection

From crop to fibre, rope and bond

Back to the Flax explores how locally grown flax can once again become part of our everyday lives by transforming it into rope and inventive design objects. This sixth edition focuses on one of the oldest techniques: rope-making and knotting. A rope derives its strength from individual strands of fibre coming together. Taking this idea as their starting point, each of the collective’s ten designers created an object designed to carry: a bag, basket or other form, made from locally grown flax. Each object bears the distinct signature of its maker. Together, these material self-portraits form a collective portrait. The next step is to explore how natural fibres and traditional craftsmanship can provide a sustainable foundation for future design.

Back to the Flax is a design collective of ten students from Design Academy Eindhoven, taking part in Kazerne Young for the third year. On a 1,000-square-metre plot in Gijzenrooi in Eindhoven, the collective grows, harvests and processes flax in collaboration with the local community and other partners. Traditional knowledge and experimental techniques come together throughout the process, with each designer contributing their own background and approach. Through workshops and hands-on participation, Back to the Flax is breathing new, sustainable life into local flax cultivation, craftsmanship and the broader production chain.

@backtotheflax

Photo by: @ruudbalk & @mariadpaloma

#DDW26 #KazerneDesignLab #EmbodiedEnergy #DutchDesignWeek2026 #DesignEindhoven

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Transforming Kazerne for DDW26. One week to go. The energy is rising, the gallery is coming alive, and we can’t wait to welcome you back for @dutchdesignweek. ✨

Here’s a BTS at Kazerne as we build our newest exhibition: Embodied Energy, Vibrant Relations.

Behind every object lies a world we do not immediately see. Raw materials, energy, labour, knowledge and natural processes come together within it. Temporarily. Because what appears static is part of continuous change.

Come explore the show, dine among the works, grab a drink in the new Bar Bistro, or stay the night at our boutique hotel. @kazerne_eindhoven

📍 Paradijslaan 2–8, Eindhoven
🗓 DDW 2026 | 17–25 October

Designers/Participants :
@backtotheflax
@agablonska_studio
@sterborgman
@datrashclub
@fransjegimbrere
@sofia_karnukaeva
@flavieliu
@st_udioo @_shituo_
@uoow_uo66uns
@elenanechaeva_
@studio.noff
@phloxvanoppen
@frederikrombach
@jonathan_sapir5
@studiokoensteger
@atelierhendriksen
@mtr___studio
@studiotoer
@nicovischi
@klarenbeek_dros
@hakdesignstudio
@thehollandexpatcentersouth
Taiwan Design Research Institute
@designintaiwan
Prisma Collective
Radical Chains
@frank_tjepkema

🎥: @mariadpaloma

#DDW26 #KazerneDesignlab #EmbodiedEnergy #DutchDesignWeek EindhovenDesign

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Editing @backtotheflax documentary and planning additional shooting days

In this teaser:

@lucas.van.vuuren @mikafuchs

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Teaser Trailer • Sunday I started my new documentary project with the kind students at @backtotheflax filming their flax harvest. They turn the flax into design. I’ll be following them over the coming year as they work on this together and their own graduation projects.

With Primo Arets, Corentin Berthomé, Karin Borovcová, Guilain Delanoue, Mika Fuchs, Filip Kubiny, Fabio Lucietto, Monique Simon, Elisabeth Teje Duis, Linde van Vlijmen, Lucas van Vuuren.

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Throwback to the 2025 harvest with Back to the Flax. This Sunday, 16 August, they are gathering once again to harvest this year’s crop together. 🌾

Swipe through to see a few moments from last year, and head over to @backtotheflax to learn more and sign up!

📸 @mariadpaloma
 #KazerneDesignLab #BackToTheFlax #RegenerativePractices #EindhovenDesign #DesignAcademyEindhoven

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Milan Design Week 2026

Happy to have shared our work with @backtotheflax as part of @rootsexhibition_nl

Thankful for all the people and conversations that made it memorable, and for the tiramisu.

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analog field diary

planting season, 2025

waiting for the flax to grow

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The Eindhoven textile chain broke decades ago. Now two people are rebuilding it from opposite ends: one by going back to the field to recover what was lost, the other by partnering with the technologies that make textile-to-textile recycling real at an industrial scale. Join Linde van Vlijmen (@backtotheflax) and Marc Evers (@eeexclusives @eelabels) at EHV Innovation Café to explore what a regenerative textile future actually requires. ⁠
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When: 28 May | 18:00 - 19:00⁠
Where: Kazerne downtown Eindhoven⁠
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Free entry, English spoken.⁠
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🔗 Link in bio for free tickets!⁠
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#EHVInnovationCafe #TextileInnovation #RegenerativeDesign #CircularTextile #Design #Eindhoven⁠

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Planting the Seed 2026
The start of a new season 🌱

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ROOTS Exhibition Milano 2026
Sleeping Beauty, a Symbiotic Symphony

Masterly- the Dutch in Milano
Palazzo Giureconsulti

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We often forget what wood really is.

This bed carries its past with it —
an ash tree from Rotterdam,
once rooted in the city.

Now transformed into the Sleeping Beauty Bed.

Handcrafted using traditional mortise-and-tenon joints,
without glue.

A piece that can be taken apart,
reused, and passed on.

Not just a bed,
but a continuation of a living material.

Initiated @studiosimonevanes
and presented at @rootsexhibition_nl in @masterly_milano

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