In 2020 Fiction Factory joined OPEN|NEXT together with Waag, with a mission to find an open source hardware solution for our biggest waste stream: wood. Every day we use many sheets of plywood on our CNC machines, we mill out the needed shapes and the leftover space is considered waste. However we know this space can still be useful, and that our process can be improved in order to create less waste in the first place. By bringing together people with different backgrounds, yet with similar interests in CNC milling, waste reduction and circular thinking we hosted a discussion between panel members.

Ruben Bus – Circular advisor | Material researcher | Creative developer | Project manager

Rutger Graas – Initiator at Maaklab | Furniture designer and maker

Marta Malé-Alemany – Leader Robot Studio / Digital Production Research Group – AUAS/HvA Faculty of Technology

Bouke van den Wildenberg – Teacher & Project manager – HMC Sustainability

Rick Buchter – Director at Wikkelhouse