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LaursenWhat happens when design begins with what is usually rejected?
This publication tells the story of a shared ambition: to rethink the role of materials in Danish furniture design. Emerging from a vision set in motion in 2024, it revisits a collective effort across the Danish furniture industry through six experimental collaborations developed by Design Lab at Aalborg University together with Fritz Hansen, NORR11, Muuto, FRIIS & MOLTKE, FDB Møbler, BOLIA, and manufacturing partners.
These experiments explore how materials often considered imperfect, surplus, or discarded can become the starting point for new forms of value. Together, they invite a material turn in Danish design - one shaped by care, curiosity and responsibility, where discarded resources become opportunities, material complexity becomes a design driver, and new futures emerge through collaboration.
Udgiver: Aalborg University Open Publishing
ISBN: 97887-7642-292-9
Udgivet: 2026
ISSN: 2794-9206
DOI: 10.54337/aau.dlm3
