Marina Toeters
Co-Founder of the Fashion Tech Farm and owner by-wire.net
Marina Toeters is initiator and the driving force behind by-wire.net. Together with a widely developed network she is dedicated to designing and prototyping innovative textile products and garments. Contact us to participate in one of the development processes for innovative and better garments and textile products. by-wire.net
In 2019 she initiated the Fashion Tech Farm in Eindhoven as there is enough space and machines to share and innovate the fashion industry together.
"Let’s not waste the power of fashion: lets innovate for a better world. Collaborate with us for relevant and circular textile products and a supportive fashion system." Marina Toeters
Matthijs Vertooren
Co-Founder of the Fashion Tech Farm and owner Donktech
Donktech is the company of Matthijs Vertooren. Matthijs is an independent engineer and innovation manager, specialized in the field of the energy transition, and digital modelling and fabrication. Next to that he managed the renovation and energy systems of the Fashion Tech Farm. Find here more information.
"I’m an independent engineer and innovation manager, specialized in the field of R&D research and innovation and energy efficiënt real estate development"
LABELEDBY – Jessica Joosse en Fabienne van der Weiden
Pioneering the Future of Sustainable Fashion through Innovation and Technology
LABELEDBY. is reshaping the future of textiles. They created an unique portfolio encompassing fabric development, trend research and textile inspiration that explore the boundaries of state of the art fabric innovation. Jessica Joosse and Fabienne van der Weiden strive for a personalised, localised and sustainable fashion industry. Therefore it is their mission to transform the fashion industry through innovation and technology.
"It is our mission to develop and promote ethical, sustainable practices that may help transform the way fashion is designed, made, and consumed."
Malou Beemer
Design innovator, Artist, Art director, Concept and Costume Designer, Speaker
Malou Beemer focuses on working with the body and personal space around it. She is fascinated by human behavior, psychology, movement and the way this translates to nonverbal communication. Believing in the power of interdisciplinary projects she runs her own studio in which she collaborates with innovative partners and dance companies. She is involved in the fields of, consultancy in art directions and concept development, costume design, coaching of models and teaching body awareness classes.
Malou explores the fields of wearable tech, smart textiles but also costume and creature design. With every project she dives into the concept development and searches for the most effective medium to communicate the idea into a total experience.
"Collaborating with different fields within interdisciplinary projects are the future."
Loe Feijs
Emeritus Professor at Eindhoven University of Technology & head designer at LAURENTIUS.LAB
LAURENTIUS.LAB designs new artifacts combining art, fashion and mathematics. Loe Feijs is a scientist in residence at Fashion Tech Farm and as a professor emeritus of Industrial Design he teaches in the Making With.. cluster at TU/e Industrial Design. Loe has his own label LAURENTIUS LAB operating from his studio Sittard. His vision is that the combination of art, fashion and mathematics is a rich playing field worth exploring.
"Symmetry and other mathematical principles can and should be used for the aesthetics of innovative fashion"
Highlights
- Winner of the Elegante Algoritmes contest
- Outstanding Paper Award
- Royal decoration “Officier in de orde van Oranje Nassau”
Expertise
- Designs new artifacts combining art, fashion and mathematics
Beam Contrechoc
Innovative autonomous artist and e-textile designer.
Inspired by the future as well as the past, Beam works in a myriad of techniques which are presented internationally. He develops prototypes and artworks for both functional and artistic goals. They push the boundaries of traditional and experimental techniques to create truly unique pieces. He prefers an underground style of working which allows him to keep making all the time.
"Always inspired and amazed by "तत् त्वम् असि", - tat twam asi - that there is you - in Sanskrit, pointing out that the world you see around you is in fact what you are yourself. So sometimes I am allowed to be a little optimistic about myself, because I see a friendly, inspiring and human Fashion Tech Farm!"
“het vredige bosretraite waar we niet worden afgeleid door ijdele verlangens” -Rameau
Highlights
- Webdance Prize, NPO
- Design Shame DDW24
- Publication Textiles
Expertise
- Art and Design
- Education and Research by making
- Embedded programming
- E-textile electronics
- Storytelling Fabrics and Outfits
Margret Huenerbein, Rick, Ronald and the others of the Bilihome team
Med tech startup in wearable Phototherapy for babies with jaunice
Bilihome aims to support jaundiced newborns and their parents, naturally. The wearable solution allows optimal blue light therapy and helps babies to recover in the right environment. Marina supports Bilihome in Design, Research and Communication processes.
"Bilihome's solution is designed to support both the parents and the child as much as possible with their natural newborn care."
Peter Visser
Connecting People, Technology, Funds & society in HighTech & DeepTech
Peter is an independent specialist in the financial side of innovation. For over 30 years, he has helped find funding for innovative and meaningful projects and companies. He also specialises in assisting start-ups in finding funds to grow.
Specialisms: (European) R&D subsidies, Business Development, networking & consortium formation, project management, Open Innovation & Liaison with the public and governments.
"Just think outside the box, and you will have many more options you did not see before"
Minne Zeijdner
MinneWorks, the design label of Minne Zeijdner Founder of DieKees
MinneWorks, the design label of Minne Zeijdner, transforms complex challenges into actionable solutions.
Minne drives innovation across various sectors, from her startup DieKees — the woolen plant pot — to usability engineering for med-tech companies.
With a background in fashion and posthumanist design, she redefines design paradigms through a craft-focused lens, emphasizing truly sustainable solutions.
"Design at its best connects all
dimensions: users and stakeholders, the planet, business, technology,
and the power of great looking things."
Roxy van Kemenade
Shaping the Future of Fashion Through Innovation and Digital Design, working at Tricorp
I specialize in digital fashion, with expertise in tools like Clo3D, and focus on merging the digital and physical worlds to create phygital fashion. My work explores innovative ways to make digital fashion more tangible, blending creativity, technology, and sustainability. By designing immersive experiences and future-forward concepts, I aim to bridge the gap between virtual and real-world clothing, offering accessible and transformative approaches to fashion that redefine how we create, wear, and interact with textiles.
Kahrawan Suleiman
Founder of 8ÊNAV. Fashion Designer/Tailor, Ringmaker.
8ÊNAV is a fashion brand by designer Kahrawan Suleiman. The brand creates unique, handmade clothing and jewelry that tell personal stories about resilience and self-expression. 8ÊNAV combines traditional craftsmanship with modern design, encouraging people to be themselves through fashion.
"The future is a concept"
-Alan Watts
Daan Sonnemans
Co-founder of Kantamanto Social Club
Kantamanto Social Club is a global sustainable fashion collective rooted in Ghana’s Kantamanto Market, the largest second-hand clothing market in West Africa. The collective amplifies historically unheard voices through activism and education. By creating retail pathways to the European market and offering a global exhibition platform, they aim to showcase their work to the global consumer, reclaim their power, and build capacity beyond Western dependency.
"To do this work with compassion you have to forgive the old you for the things you didn't know or understand, and focus your energy on challenging the you that knows better now."
- Sammy Oteng
Rosa Scholtens
Systemic change and circularity in fashion and textiles – project lead, strategic thinker, sustainable innovation. Podcasthost Circular Textile Stories.
With The Textile Chapter, Rosa Scholtens researches in all kinds of ways how we can make the textile industry future-proof. She makes a podcast, Circular Textile Stories, in which she research perspectives on a circular future, Rosa works with her mother on the revaluation of Dutch wool, she talks, analyzes, presents, writes and advises on circular issues and the new systems that go with it.
"What if they are the beginning? What if the garment workers, and their ability to organize themselves well, is the beginning of sustainable change in all areas?"
Julia van Zilt
Owner Interactive Textile Library & Technology and Product Development Manager at Vlisco
Julia van Zilt creates interactive textile interfaces and experiences in a delicate manner. Since the beginning of the technological era, we are finding ways to integrate technology into our surroundings, interweaving it with our everyday lives. Textiles being a big part of our surroundings present the opportunity to create interfaces that are seamlessly integrated within our environments. Julia’s work focuses on creating a physical and digital platform that brings the latest interactive textile developments to the industry for easier implementation of interactive textiles into new products.
"ITL, or Interactive Textile Library is promoting The new way of implementing interactive textile innovation in design"
Iris Bekkers
Regenerative designers, researcher and entrepreneur at irisamberdesign
Studio irisamberdesign researches and designs on the intersection of humans and nature. The studio focuses on the question of how we can coinhabit with nature. It examines how design can have a positive effect and restore ecosystems.
To design for both human and nature, principles such as nature-inclusive design and circularity are applied. This translates into activities such as concept development, creative research and providing advice on design choices in projects where people and nature come together.
"I explore ways to better co-inhabit this world with nature. I believe that connection—with both others and the natural world—is essential, allowing us to learn from each other and from nature. Collaboration, I feel, is key to restoring and nurturing flourishing ecosystems."
Shams Hazim
Founder of Underbug
We’re on a mission to save the unsung heroes of the ecosystem: the insects. But forget the buzz around bees; we’re here for the overlooked, the underdogs – the bugs nobody thinks twice about but who quietly keep our planet ticking. Imagine a safe haven for ladybirds and a sanctuary for soil-dwellers where bugs can weather the storm of droughts, floods, and whatever else this wild world throws at them. We root for the Underbug.
"My dream is to create shelter and ecosystems for the forgotten, but essential insects of the world, and turn our grey cityscape into an urban jungle. The only way to accomplish this is when man and nature work together in symbiosis."
Oscar Tomico
Oscar Tomico is associate professor at TU/e
Oscar Tomico is associate professor at the Department of Industrial Design at Eindhoven University of Technology on Design Research Methodologies for Posthuman Sustainability. His research expands the context of human-centered design and positions designers as part of complex ecological systems.
"Posthuman design opens new opportunities to look at sustainability beyond anthropocentric functionalism. Decentering the human allows approaching design and engineering from the perspective of multi-species collaborations"
Ralf Jacobs
Ralf Jacobs is an Optical engineer, sensor developer, 2011 – ∞
Technology Consultant at Settels Savenije
Ralf Jacobs can best be described as an experimental photographer. He “writes with light” using a blend of old and new techniques, ranging from 19th-century cyanotypes to laser projections controlled by software. By combining various photographic methods and images, he creates new realities where time feels like a visible presence.
"Repugnant is a creature who would squander the ability to lift an eye to heaven, conscious of his fleeting time here."
Brigitte Kock
Founder of Variable Seams
At Variable Seams, we’re dedicated to sustainability and pushing the boundaries of 3D printing fashion at home. I’ll guide you through creating modular fabrics and innovative techniques with your home 3D printer, so you can craft stunning, unique wearables.
"To find alternatives to fossil-fuel-based flexible filaments, making fashion production more sustainable."
Highlights
- Collaboration with Balena: Developed FlexTex3D
- Awards: Winner of the FashionTech category at the 2024 3D Pioneers Challenge
Expertise
- Innovation in Textiles
- 3D Printing and Wearable Tech
- Sustainable Design
Jori van der Kolk
Experimental & Large-Scale 3D Printing at Dark Matter Design
Co-host of the Making with Machines podcast
Dark Matter Design is a digital manufacturing studio with a focus on exploration and experimentation.
At Dark Matter Design, I develop and adapt digital production machines, such as 3D printers, for new materials and innovative applications. My mission is to make production more sustainable while integrating creativity and artistic expression into the manufacturing process.
"In craftsmanship, there is a strong connection between the craftsman, the tools, and the material. I aim to bring this relationship between man, machine, and material to digital manufacturing."
Highlights
- Paper: Exquisite Fabrication: Exploring the Interaction Between Designers and Digital Fabrication Machines
- Computational Design & Clay 3D printing at the Department for the Built Environment at the TU/e
Expertise
- Digital Fabrication
- Interactive Prototyping
Interns
Interns from diverse backgrounds
Next to all these Professionals Farmer we welcomed several interns. Sita, Jordan, Nadifo, Nienke, Reyhan, Rob, Tom, Yazmine, Milla, Jeylin, Ima, Oktawia, Tyana, Minne, Julie, Noa, Rosa, Gijs, Star, Annika, Nine, Josje, Brecht, Meike, Marianna, Leah, Sion, Suze, to name a few.
""Where fashion meets tech—and yes, we feed the chickens too!"
Do you feel like you belong to the Fashion Tech Farm as well? Or do you want to become part of this team? Reach out via an email to info@fashiontechfarm.com.