As a designer I believe in natural solutions for contemporary problems. Inspired by tribal culture and natural systems, I’m exploring sustainable design through material research. In my opinion, the way we used to live as hunter gatherers is a very harmonious existence with nature, while these days everything is so high-tech and designed for comfort and luxury. So I think we should be critical of modern developments which always get labelled as innovation. Definitely within the fashion industry, there’s such an incredible amount being produced, more and more synthetical material, at high speed and low quality, so in a lot of aspects a very harmful industry. Even wool products come from Australia, while we have such a beautiful source of material. Felt is the oldest textile known to man and it is very much undervalued. I think that if you add a few ingredients that are normally missing, such as some attention, love and manual labour, you can make really beautiful things. So by combining the oldest textile with a modern phenomenon such as techwear, you create a contrast which shows the gap that has emerged between innovation and nature in our luxury-driven world. This exhibition is a kind of visualisation of the disbalance between these two worlds.