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Aliki van der Kruijs & Jos Klarenbeek

Kadans 2.0

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.





Learn more about the project in the film Kadans 2.0.


https://kadanskadans.com/

http://www.alikivanderkruijs.com/

Instagram @alikivanderkruijs

https://www.josklarenbeek.nl/

Instagram @jos___klarenbeek

CREDITS


Visual Design : Claudio G. / Blacktropik 

Weaver software development: RNDR 

Photography: Lonneke van der Palen 

3D animation: Studio PMS

Film

Film and Edition  @millkproductions 

Soundscape by Luísa Puterman

Photography @lonnekevanderpalen

Identity by @blacktropik

Software by @rndr.studio



With
Satellietgroep
Lanficio Leo
Weavers Werkstatt / Jongeriuslab
Gerbrant van Vledder
Marion Tissier, TU Delft
Sierd de Vries , TU Delft

Support of Stroom Den Haag,
Stimuleringsfonds Creatieve Industrie NL and Satellietgroep.