Ecomade

Winner

Name(s)

Joel Hügli (1993)

Website(s)

ecomade.ch

Instagram

@matratzenjoel

Employment

80% design researcher, HSLU; 20% designer and co-founder, Ecomade

Education

Master Design, HSLU, 2022
Bachelor Product and Industrial Design, FHNW, 2018
Apprenticeship as a structural draughtsman, ar3 architekten, Bern, 2013

Title

Ecomade

Year of creation

2020–2022

Place of creation

Mainly Lucerne, Bern, Wangen an der Aare

Context of creation

Diploma, Master Design, HSLU, 2020–2022

Collaborators

Coaching: Master Design, HSLU
Network: Swiss Mattress Alliance
Producer: Roviva Roth & Cie

Item(s) shown

Mattress prototype, explorative material samples, posters

Dimensions

Mattress prototype: 200 × 90 × 20 cm; explorative material samples: approx. DIN A4/5 (up to 100 pieces); posters: DIN A4 and DIN A0

Formats/Duration

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Material(s)

Main materials for the experiments: pocket springs (metal and non-woven); knitted, woven and non-woven fabrics; polyurethane foam

Material supplier(s)

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This is a topic to send you to sleep… Which is exactly how it should be, because it is all about mattresses. In Switzerland alone, one million of them are disposed of in waste incineration every year. Around 90% of the ecological footprint of mattresses is linked to the materials used in them. This calls for a paradigm shift towards a sustainable, circular mattress industry!

Joel Hügli tackled the problem in an explorative, design-driven and empirical process as part of his Design Master’s thesis. Ecomade (short for Ecological Mattress Design) was developed in dialogue and cooperation with the industry. As a result, three possible solutions were developed and demonstrated:

1. A new generation of circular comfort mattress
2. Closed-loop recycling of post-consumer mattress textiles
3. Ten design principles for sustainable mattresses

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