This year I took part in the fashion residency Taskforce Fashion 2020. Taskforce Fashion started in 2018, as a unique, multidisciplinary and research-based collaboration between fashion platforms FASHIONCLASH, M-ODE and State of Fashion, commissioned by and in close collaboration with the Creative Industries Fund NL. In co-creation with Dutch design talent and in dialogue with the (inter)national fashion field and other disciplines, the three platforms investigate the transformative role of fashion in relation to social issues with various experiments.

  My series of Chromarama tapestries received a Dezeen Awards 2021 nomination for Best Homeware Design. Chromarama also won 3rd place in th...

  Ever since the i nvention of the bra , which was a revolution in itself, designers and industry have tried to design the perfect fit for a...

I consider myself a Japanophile. In 2018 I visited Japan for the first time after years of anticipation. I had finally found the perfect tr...

Virtual Design Festival  is the world's first online design festival, taking place from 15 April to 30 June 2020. With much of the wo...

Nobody - is a photo series inspired by the Rotterdam street scene at the time of the corona crisis. A time when the city comes to a standsti...

In September Kukka moved to a new studio space, in "De Wasserij" builing in Rotterdam. De Wasserij (the laundromat) is the ne...

Despite technological advances in new materials, design processes, artificial intelligence, 3D-printing, miniaturized electronics and d...

On the 29th of March I gave my very first TED talk at TEDxRotterdam, about rethinking the way we colour our clothes.