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17-25 October 2026

This project is now archived and was part of DDW20

Event type

Exhibition

Samples of the textile sea archive
Samples of the textile sea archive
Lonneke van der Palen
Created by Dutch designers Aliki van der Kruijs and Jos Klarenbeek, the Kadans 2.0 research project examines the potential of raw scientific data: Can detailed measurements of the motions of the North Sea be transformed into something widely accessible, such as textile?
Can you weave with water? Through their custom Weaver software, they now can weave the motion of water. Their experiments with waves and wool have produced different types of patterned fabrics that mimic, with painstaking precision, specific moments in
Samples of the textile sea archive
Samples of the textile sea archive
Lonneke van der Palen
Samples of the textile sea archive
Samples of the textile sea archive
Aliki van der Kruijs
Samples of the textile sea archive
Samples of the textile sea archive
Aliki van der Kruijs
Weaver software
Weaver software

About Aliki van der Kruijs & Jos Klarenbeek

In their own ways, Aliki and Jos had been compiling environmental and textile data for years before meeting each other. In 2016, at the 10 Years Thomas Eyck group show in the Zuiderzeemuseum, where they found themselves as exhibitors, it all clicked. “We are both interested in invisible forces,” they explained. “It was immediately clear that we could combine our skills and viewpoints.” And there, that invisible weaving of complementary expertise marked the beginning of Kadans.

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software development RNDR studio
Photography Lonneke van der Palen
digital renders PMS studio
This project is supported by Stimuleringsfonds Creatieve Industrie