Seetal Solanki, Christien Meindertsma and Aniela Fidler Wieruszewska joined Dezeen for the second talk in our collaboration with Dutch Design Week 2020.
Dezeen editor-in-chief Marcus Fairs spoke to curator Lisa Hardon of the Dutch Design Foundation and the three designers exploringDutch Design Week's (DDW) sub-theme ? Stories of a Product ? by discussing how good design can improve people's relationship with products.
Ma-tt-er founder Seetal Solanki. Portrait by Campbell Addy
Solanki is the founder of Ma-tt-er, a London-based design practice founded in 2015. She is also the author of Why Materials Matter: Responsible Design for a Better World, a book exploring natural and manmade materials that could be used to reduce human impact on the planet. For DDW 2020, she looked at the impact current social challenges have on our homes and workplaces as we explore more collaborative and eco-friendly lifestyles.

Fidler Wieruszewska's work can be explored as part of the Dezeen-curated DDW tour
Designer Fidler Wieruszewska, who also took part in today's discussion, is interested in how we communicate our values and ideas about the world through what we wear.
Her work investigates relationships that we have with products, as well as the relationships that those products enable or disable us from having.
Designer Aniela Fidler Wieruszewska
Her project Diamond Makers Lab investigates the possibility of making lab-grown diamonds from meaningful objects, such as a mother's cake or ash fr...