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Heimtextil Trends 24/25

New Sensitivity

Heimtextil Trends 24/25 are approaching the trends differently: from trends being the driver to transformation being the driver. The focus of Heimtextil’s 24/25 edition is addressing change at scale. We present different transformative textile innovations under the headline New Sensitivity.

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Textile production takes a new starting point

New Sensitivity

Heimtextil Trends 24/25 is about approaching the future of textiles with a New Sensitivity. In this context, sensitivity means considering impact when making a decision or product. We need a sensitive way of thinking and considering our relationship with each other, technology, and nature as linked functioning as a nexus. Specifically, we are seeing New Sensitivity emerging in home textiles through three different approaches: plant-based, bioengineered, and technological textiles. All three directions show different pathways towards a more sensitive world of textiles.

Cases of New Sensitivity

Consider these cases to understand and be inspired by how New Sensitivity impacts broader than textiles in architecture, design, retail and policies.

Sweco Architects

Architecture that is more than buildings

Sweco Architects is aiming to build an area, Näringen in Gävle, Sweden, that will be Europe’s most sustainable city area. The aim is to engage 93% sustainable practices.

Enhancing nature

Enhancing nature

Neoplants produce bioengineered plants that can absorb pollution in the home, equivalent to 30 regular house plants.

Sensitive work policies

Sensitive work policies

The experimental lab of IKEA, SPACE10, has introduced flexible menstrual/menopause-policies. The policy includes the option to work from home, spaces to lay down at work, separate sick days from menstrual/menopause days and a menstrual kit with supplies.

Digital well-being

Digital well-being

LEGO Group is spearheading long-term partnership initiatives with both UNICEF and Epic Games to help tech developers and policymakers understand how digital experiences can positively influence aspects of children’s well-being.

Solutions for more textile waste recycling

Solutions for more textile waste recycling

The European Green Deal has driven Denmark to initiate national textile waste collection at households. The waste will be handled at textile reassembly plants like NewRetex, where the textile waste will be made into new fibres and yarns.

Healing textiles

Healing textiles

The Kalogon cushion helps wheelchair users have an active seating life and prevent further disability. A combination of air tubes, textile pillows and AI software offer movement to ensure healthy blood circulation while seated.

Heimtextil Trends 24/25: Colours

In pursuit of creating colours that evoke emotions in our senses while at the same time respecting our values in protecting the environment, sensitive colouring methods of natural pigments deriving from the earth and new colouring processes of innovative bioengineering technology have created a dynamic yet subtle colour palette for Heimtextil Trends 24/25: New Sensitivity.

Plant-based textiles

Plant-based textiles mean that the fibres are derived from something that grows rather than being synthetically produced. The sustainable advantage of plant-based textiles is that their origin is natural and, therefore, more eligible to recirculate in existing ecosystems.

Plant-based textiles can be divided into two groups. The first group textiles are made from plant crops like cactus, jute and seaweed. The second group is textiles made of plant by-products which are leftover raw materials from production such as banana, olive, persimmon and hemp.

       

Bio-engineered textiles

Bio-engineering bridges nature and technology and transforms the way textiles are made. They can be divided into two directions: fully bio-engineered and bio-enhancing biodegrading textiles.

For fully bio-engineered textiles, nature-inspired strategies are adopted in textiles production. Textiles are made from the protein, carbohydrates in corn, grass, and cane sugar, or bacteria. Biodegradable fibres can be added to conventional textiles like polyester to enhance the conventional textiles’ ability to revert to materials found in nature.

       

Technological textiles

Technology can support the transformation of textiles through different methods: upcycling and recycling of textiles, textile construction and textile design.

Developing technologies for recycling textile waste and methods, or old textile construction techniques are ways to sustainable solutions. Textile Design Thinking is another method that addresses critical issues such as energy usage or durability of natural fibres and enhances these through technological textile advancement.

Heimtextil Trend Council

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My team and I sincerely thank all contributors who submitted the work featured.

Creative Direction of Trend Concept: SPOTT trends & business

Director @spottrends: Anja Bisgaard Gaede

Research and Content Creator @ninnihcph: Nanna Hedegaard

Colour Designer: Judith van Vliet

Stylist: Simone Henneberg

Photographer: Inge Lynggaard Hansen

Video Production: TOFU Productions

Copywriter: Melisa Gray-Ward

Key Visual: Dream Viewer by Lise Vester

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