Aliki van der Kruijs is a designer and researcher working primarily with textiles. Her deep interest in climate and geology strongly inspires her textile work, presenting environmental data about a specific area and landscape.
The Dutch designer has developed an archive of rain-made fabrics with patterns produced with the help of rainy conditions. In addition, she made a series of fabrics using atmosphere and contextual research as input for colour and material collections.
Jos Klarenbeek is a mathematician with a multidisciplinary approach to object creation. He has gathered planetary datasets from NASA and the European Space Agency to make custom maps for his research projects — from the dairy production chain to global temperature charts.
Aliki and Jos had been compiling environmental and textile data for years before they met. Together, the two designers developed the ongoing project Kadans 2.0 in 2017.
Kadans 2.0 by Aliki van der Kruijs and Jos Klarenbeek
Kadans 2.0
Kadans 2.0 is a research project that examines how the sea's motion can be a direct source for an ever-changing weaving pattern. The project sprouts from a shared curiosity for invisible natural processes and uses them as a source of information to develop patterns and materials. Textile production is combined with sciences, including oceanography and mathematics, constructing a soft output of hard data generated by the motions of waves at sea.
The Dutch government, through its Rijkswaterstaat, uses offshore buoys and platforms to monitor the wind, wave and acidity conditions along the coastline of the Netherlands. This real-time information is open-source and a direct data input for Kadans 2.0. Together with RNDR, a weaving software is developed for both shaft and jacquard weaving. It enabled the translation of sea data into a weaving pattern. Each part of a resulting piece is directly linked to a moment in time, making each fabric roll a unique timeline.