Chiel Lubbers

Designer motivated by the concept of Resonance — the continuous interaction with our environment, in which our bodies both influence and are influenced by it, transforming as we live and exist alongside one another. My practice combines field research, craft techniques, and experimental material exploration, with a focus on biodegradable materials that actively participate in living processes.

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Indusium at The Symbiocene Forest, Roots, BioArt Laboratories, Dutch Design Week 2025, Eindhoven

Chiel is a designer and material researcher whose work explores how our bodies resonate with the world around us. In Indusium he merges plant fibers with human anatomy, creating a biocouture piece that reflects on tension, trauma and transformation.

The project draws on the historical corset as a symbol of containment, using hand dissected celery fibers that are fermented with microorganisms. The result is a sculptural textile that embodies a conversation between the physical and the emotional, between the human and the more than human.

Through slow, attentive making and collaboration with living materials, Chiel investigates how fabric can act as a second skin, storing memory and revealing the invisible patterns of stress held within muscle and connective tissue.

Indusium is part of a broader journey into biodesign, where Chiel explores how bodily experience, craft and biological processes can come together to challenge the boundaries between inside and outside, structure and softness, control and release.

Indusium at New Fashion Narratives, Fashionclash 2024, Bureau Europa Maastricht

Interdisciplinary showcase and development platform for fashion & fashion culture based in the Netherlands, and a worldwide network of emerging fashion makers. The exhibition is built around the idea of ​​the game ‘Exquisite Corps’ that serves as a metaphor for the framework for presenting works that are the result of collaborative and/or transdisciplinary practices.





Gardening, Creative Coding Utrecht, Museum Oud Amelisweerd, Bunnik

Together with citizens, digital creators and activists equipped with technology, we’re going to ‘garden’ and play the game of the elements. We’ll enter into a playful and curious conversation with nature and we investigate the connection between man and nature through technology and spirituality. What does nature mean when we view it from the perspective of technology? What if we don’t put humans first and give rights and voices to non-humans, like a river, robin or roma tomato? Through art and design, GARDENING makes our changing relationship with nature tangible and makes you aware of your and others' role in our ecosystem.