Bob Hendrikx is a bold, practical designer who presents clear, sustainable solutions for the future in an accessible way. He demonstrates the regenerative potential of life investigating the use of living materials (which include our remains after death) through time. The inventor, architect, and bio-designer is a trailblazer in the field, integrating non-humans into our everyday realities to harbour their ecological value into much-needed solutions for how cities can tackle climate change. With strong entrepreneurship, Loop demonstrates how to go further than working together with living organisms, restoring the parasitic relationship between humanity and its surroundings into an attainable reality. With ingenuity, nature meets the demands of the modern day. 

Bob’s an entrepreneurial designer that, having gained fame as creator of the world’s first living coffin, continues investigating sustainable solutions for the future. He graduated from Delft University of Technology in 2019 and is currently affiliated with MIT Media Lab (Cambridge – Massachusetts, USA). He does not only investigate sustainable solutions by working with living organisms: Loop is evidence that he sees his ideas through from concept to action. His portfolio finds solutions by harbouring life, ranging from mycelium urns to a growing house. His projects cleverly combine the speculative with the executable, demonstrating vision and cohesion: whether it’s a living bin that seeks to eliminate traditional waste management using specially grown sea anemones to eat our organic waste or roadblocks made from specially developed concrete to grow moss for the city’s breathability.

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