In the mid-90’s the Dutch foundation Droog Design joined with the Structures and Materials Lab at TU Delft on a project called DryTech which put the knowledge and advanced material resources of the laboratory at the disposal of a handful of very talented designers.

Based on the laboratory's initiative to evolve 'minimum energy structures,' designers Marcel Wanders, Jurgen Bey and Hella Jongerius were challenged to 'weave' products with a high-tech lightness and strength. To achieve this, the three designers experimented with new fiber-based materials, resulting in several innovative, market-ready products.

This collaboration between Delft and the Droog designers in part inspired slowLab's goal as a creative laboratory. Taking the lead from Tu Delft's successful melding of traditional methods of making with cutting- edge material science, slowLab hopes in the future to provide both financial and material support to designers for experimentation with new materials and processes, and to help bring their new and slow-er product solutions to public use.

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