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Advanced materials

Digital Wellbeing: Three Technologies beyond Healthcare

Three emerging technologies show how digital wellbeing is evolving beyond healthcare, from smart wearables to emotional microchips and advanced biometric…

Advanced materials

Phygital Futures: towards new Interactions for Wellbeing

Phygital Futures explores emerging interactions between body, materials and technology, from AI-driven wellbeing to next-generation interfaces and inclusive design.

Events and news

Beyond Fashion | 11 december 2025

Discover Beyond Fashion, the Materially event dedicated to digital fabrication, advanced materials, and technologies for fashion and cross-sector manufacturing.

Advanced materials

Matter reborn: three examples of circular economy in design

Discover three circular materials selected by Materially that transform waste into resources, promoting sustainable and responsible design.

Architecture

Second life, new language: reuse and recycling in contemporary design

The reuse and recycling of materials have become increasingly popular in architectural practice, inspiring new aesthetics and design philosophies

Architecture

Expo 2025: 3 materials for the architecture of the future

Three innovative materials are redefining architecture: reclaimed wood tiles, smart light-modulating films, and organic photovoltaic films.

Architecture

Building the Future: Materials and Techniques at Expo 2025 Osaka

As Expo 2025 Osaka prepares to close its doors on October 13th, its theme—“Designing Future Society for Our Lives”—has come…

moda sostenibile fashion design circular fashion

Fashion

Circular Fashion: how innovative manufacturing can reduce the environmental impact of the Fashion & Accessories sector

Circular fashion goes beyond recycled fabrics: from on-demand 3D knitwear to recyclable shoes and additive manufacturing, innovative production models are…

Recycled acetate buttons produced from cigarette filters, offering a sustainable material for fashion and eyewear.

Fashion

Three innovative and sustainable materials for a more conscious design

Three innovative and sustainable materials for conscious design: plant-based eco-fur, flexible wood textile, and recycled acetate buttons.

Plastic materials

Materials for Ocean Safety: A Focus on Pollution Prevention and Ecosystem Restoration

Discover sustainable materials that reduce ocean plastic, prevent microplastic release, and support marine ecosystem restoration

Textile

Textiles for the Future: Small and Large-scale Actions to Reverse the Trend

Materials, strategies, and training to drive textile innovation: from the fast fashion crisis to the EU’s green and digital transition…

Advanced materials

Three Materials to Protect the Ocean

Discover three sustainable materials selected by Materially to reduce ocean pollution, support coral reef regeneration, and promote marine biodiversity.

M Selection

Filie

FILIE® recycles PVB from discarded windshields, giving new life to this high-performance material. Through an innovative process, it turns laminated…

Advanced materials

Adaptive materials: a brief overview on self healing, shape memory, and 4D printing

In the wide world of so-called smart materials, i.e those materials that are able to respond to some external stimuli…

Advanced materials

Three materials to heal the future

Self-healing materials present nowadays a new perspective as an emerging class of smart materials designed to increase durability, reducing maintenance…

Events and news

WEBINAR | SOFT AND SOUND

Sitting, sleeping, traveling, working, playing, and walking don’t have to be a problem for the environment-especially once the soft materials…

European projects

Materials Perspectives. Materially’s Point of View.

Nel mese di maggio Materially ha contribuito al dibattito contemporaneo su innovazione e materiali partecipando attivamente a tre appuntamenti europei.

Arredo urbano da materiali riciclati Recycled street furniture design

Architecture

Regenerating cities: new visions for street furniture and outdoor installations

The combination of aesthetics, functionality and sustainability is redefining the way we conceive urban furniture and outdoor installations. Intelligent reuse…

Materiali innovativi per un design circolare Innovative materials for circular design

Design

Regeneration Challenge: Three Materials Towards Circular Design

Like urban regeneration, materials regeneration is increasingly gaining ground, offering a paradigm shift, in which products and spaces are conceived…

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