On March 18-18, 2025, the Ellen MacArthur Foundation will hold their annual network summit at the Beurs van Berlage, in Amsterdam. The Foundation’s network comes together at the flagship event to discuss and demonstrate the power of the circular economy as a solution to help tackle global challenges. The Summit is attended by a diverse group of representatives from different sectors and industries, including businesses, policymakers, financial institutions, and academics. The event plays an important role, as the attendees command a significant influence on many aspects of circular economy momentum - ranging from initiating projects and gaining buy-in to building capacity and measuring impact.
Studio Nima will curate the Materials Lab, a biomaterial exhibition within the event showcasing innovative biomaterials in a tangible and creative way, exhibiting the complete life cycle and development journey of the materials. The goal is to inspire and inform stakeholders by showcasing existing circular innovations, sparking discussions, and providing impulses that drive the exploration of biomaterial possibilities.
MushLume Lighting will showcase pendant lamps grown from hemp and mycelium alongside a select group of international biodesign brands and innovators using novel materials and production techniques at scale across industries. Materials such as bio-based polymers, biodegradable yarn and textiles, and plant-based leather alternatives will be featured, highlighting the progression from raw components through intermediary stages to the final refined material. The participants of the summit can touch and feel these innovative materials and get inspired by a range of materials made of agricultural waste, mycelium, algae, banana leaves and many more.
The Ellen MacArthur Foundation
The Ellen MacArthur Foundation is a non-profit organisation that creates evidence-based original research on the benefits of a circular economy, and how it can contribute to solving global challenges like climate change and biodiversity loss. They engage key actors and mobilise system solutions in order to build circular economy capacity, address common barriers to progress, understand the necessary enabling conditions, and pilot circular economy practices.
Studio Nima
Studio Nima develops, plans, incubates, grows and advises social business models across the globe and in a wide range of areas, such as future of mobility, sustainable food, circular economy, biomaterials and many more.
Studio Nima’s objective is to accelerate the emergence, the growth and impact of social innovations that sustainably address the world’s most pressing social and environmental issues. Transforming our economic systems to make them more equitable, lifting people out of poverty, making cities more sustainable, promoting gender equality and fighting climate change - many of today’s challenges require smart solutions.