Material of the Month is an ongoing project where MAKE. offers new or unconsidered materials to be used in the projects of our BURG students. The only condition to document and share the ideas and experiments which have been realized with the sponsored material. For current or upcoming “Material of the Month” editions, please check our Weblog.

Suggestions?
Of course we would like to get your opinion. What is your substance of desire? Feel free to send your suggestions to make(at)burg-halle.de and we will do our best in getting your stuff at the BURG for future experiments.

What happened so far

2020
– Material Vending Machine: Corona created the “Materialautomat”
2019
– Material of the Month: Scrap Glass
– Material of the Month: Hanji Paper
– Material of the Month: Piñatex Vegan Leather Alternative
– Material of the Month: ThermHex Honeycomb Panels
2018
– Material of the Month: RELEA Recycled Leather
– Material of the Month: Precious Plastic
2017
– Material of the Month: Corn-based Bricks
– Material of the Month: Stone Paper
2016
– Material of the Month: Dutch Design Trash (Reuse)
– Material of the Month: Concrete Canvas
2015
– Material of the Month: Used Truck Tarps supported by FREITAG
– Material of the Month: Seaweed (with Julia Lohmann)
– Material of the Month: Mushroom (Die Welt)
– Material of the Month: 3D Printing (at the Digitale Werkstatt)
2014
– Material of the Month: Salt (Video)
– Material of the Month: Polycaprolactone (Video)
– Material of the Month: Beeswax (Video)
– Material of the Month: Tyvek (Video)
2013
– Material of the Month: Latex (Video)
– Material of the Month: Bamboo (Video)
– Material of the Month: Acrylic One (Video)
– Material of the Month: Kraftplex (Video)