Current and Up-coming
Workshops
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Mending Evening 11
Date | Monday 26 Jan, 2026 Time | 18:00-20:00 (Drop-in anytime) Place | Lola Lijn (Radarweg 309, Amsterdam)
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Mending Evening 10
Date | Monday 12 Jan, 2026 Time | 18:00-20:00 (Drop-in anytime) Place | Lola Lijn (Radarweg 309, Amsterdam)
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Community Artist/Mender-in-Residence @ Lola Lijn
from September to December 2025
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In stock – The Kinji-ya and Mycelium @ Schoenenkwartier
The English version of The Kinji-ya and Mycelium is now available at Schoenenkwartier‘s museum shop.
Works
Design, Research and Workshops
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Exhibition : Hoe leer ik jou kennen?
The past few months, I have been hosting Mending Evenings at Lola Lijn, a new buurtkamer (community center) in Sloterdijk, where many residents have recently moved into the area. The bi-monthly evenings were slow, quiet, and a lot of fun. Some residents came and went, and some became regulars. We were all strangers in the…
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Collection: Mending Evenings
Mending Evenings are casual get-togethers for repairing clothing and other textile items organised by me, Emma Huffman. Stitchers and menders of all levels are welcome! It is a space for mutual learning and exploration.
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What is in our clothes? Making sense of textile materials @ VU
Dr Jane Tynan and Emma Huffman lead a hands-on activity to think about the textiles in our daily lives as part of the Conviviality, Fashion & Networking event at the Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam.
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Website for Rhythms of Love
I created a multi-language informative website for Rhythms of Love, an anthropological research project exploring long-term romantic relationships.
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Photography for Exhibition SNEAKER EVOLUTION
Photos for social media content of Footwear Care Lab and Schoenenkwartier.
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Exhibition – Nieuwelingen 2025 @ Van Eesteren Museum (Landscaping in Fabric)
20 June – 6 July 2025 @ Van Eesteren Museum. Opening Friday, 20 June at 17:00
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Landscaping in Fabric Workshop
6 participants joined the workshop on a rainy day in Amsterdam. The outcomes of the workshop will be exhibited at the van Eesteren museum from the 20th of June.
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Exhibition – SNEAKER EVOLUTION @ Schoenenkwartier
24 May 2025 – 6 August 2026 @ SchoenenKwartier See details on the website
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Movements of Gifting
How would you choreograph the movements of wrapping and unwrapping to make the experience special? I developed and facilitated a playful workshop in collaboration with PASKAMER.
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Visible Mending Workshop at ArtEZ Graphic Design
I led two days of Visible Mending workshops with ArtEZ Graphic Design students during the 2025 project month, CHANGE IS POWER.
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Visible Mending in de Doopsgezinde kerk
For the pop-up exhibition Heilige Huisjes by UtrechtDownUnder and FAAM.
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Days in Amsterdam
Days in Amsterdam is a collection of illustrations based on my personal memories; a mixture of mundane everyday sceneries, special moments and a dash of day dreams. Calendar designed with Zhizhong Keene.
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Exhibition – FUNGI FUTURES @ (Con)temporary Crafts Studio
Multiple objects and samples from the project “Mending with Mycelium“ were on show at (Con)temporary Crafts Studio in Bremen, DE for the exhibition FUNGI FUTURES. Photo by Philine von Düszeln
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Touch Match Soft – The soft power of designing rules
Touch Match Soft is a sensory game to find matching pairs of cushions trough the sense of touch and sound. Commissioned by Magnet for Touch Planet at Dutch Design Week 2024.
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Sneaker Repair and Maintenance Workshop by Footwear Care Lab
Designed and executed workshops on sneaker care and repair at Amsterdam House of Arts & Crafts.
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Making Mends Workshop in Almere
See the visual report – The English/Dutch edition of “Minna to Fuku wo Tsukuro” workshop held in Almere, Netherlands.
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Visible Mending Workshop @ Centraal Museum Utrecht
Commissioned by Crafting Resistance as part of the workshop series for the exhibition “Spuiten en stikken“.
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Making Mends – ミンナでフクをツクロウ in Tokyo
See the visual report – A visible mending workshop designed and hosted by Studio A-lot-of-things hosted with SIGHT SITE STUDIO (MIDORI.so, Bakuro Yokoyama).
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Visible Mending Workshop @ Museum Speelklok
I gave a visible mending workshops as part of the program for Maak ’t Even, an exhibition exploring sustainable production choices at Museum Speelklok in Utrecht, NL.
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Making Mends – Practices of care as a transformative research practice
A Making Mends workshop held in collaboration with Sanne Koevoets, DIT Platform of Erasmus University Rotterdam and Salot.
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STITCHING TOGETHER:Community Building through Sustainable Fashion
I was a speaker at the round table with Jane Tynan and Cloud Meijerand, and served as the visible mending workshop facilitator for an event hosted by VOX-POP, University of Amsterdam.
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ミンナでフクをツクロウ
See the visual report – A visible mending workshop designed and hosted by Studio A-lot-of-things hosted at Okamoto-Tei, Kyoto, Kyoto, JP.
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Meet the Mushroom
Video entries as Nob, the Kinjiya, for the #Meetthemushroom challenge for Fashion Fictions by Amy Twigger Holroyd.
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Hato Poppo
How can we think and act like pigeons? Maybe by acting like one! Hato Poppo is a simple origami pattern for human-sized pigeon beaks.
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Visible Mending Workshop
Designed and facilitated monthly workshops on the history of Boro and visible mending at Mediamatic.
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Interpreter for Textile Summer School
EN/JP interpreter for the lecture series and the research development meetings between the Weavers in Japan and Researchers in Europe.
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Illustrations for Fragmentary Institute of Comparative Timelines
In collaboration with Poiėtica, I drew the illustrations for the website of FICT; an international speculative anthropology project imagining alternative worlds where colonization by the west did not happened.
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Design for Circularity 01
Studio A-lot-of-things, Emma F Huffman and Danika van Kaathoven, designed and hosted a workshop aimed at Design students to learn and actively practice Circular Design Thinking. Learn more here
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The Kinjiya and Mycelium
Read here – A picture book of Kinjiya (co-mender) who mends sneakers with Mycelium and more beings. Developed during the research project Mending with Mycelium.
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Mending with Mycelium
Developing and exploring an alternative reality where we repair objects together with mycelium.
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Underwear of the Possible Future:Biological, computational and sustainable design
A collaborative and speculative research project with Wacoal, Synflux and Kyoto Institute of Technology.
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Fabric Re-engineered as Fabric
A collaborative research project to design for up-cycled waste fabric with colourloop, Studio monoya and Kyoto Institute of Technology.
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Internet Jam
A latent protest against the oppression of free speech on the internet. With Mio Hatakenaka and Yuki Hayashi.
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Time-lifting
Tired of your bull-shit job? We have a secret tool kit for you and your co-workers to unite and get work off 15 mins early without your boss noticing.
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Slight – Haptic Remote Controller
What if digital devices, like remote controllers, were designed to be pleasant and playful to touch?
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Introduction to Visible Mending
A little book of my first attempts at visible mending and stories of my friends and their clothes.
Academic Works
Translation | 翻訳
多元世界に向けたデザイン ラディカルな相互依存性、自治と自律、そして複数の世界をつくること
(Original Title: Designs for the Pluriverse – Radical Interdependence, Autonomy, and the Making of Worlds)
Author: Arturo Escobar
Translation: Edward Masui, Kazuhiro Ogata, Hiroto Okuda, Taku Onozato, Emma Huffman, Yuki Hayashi, Mizuki Miyamoto
Supervision: Daijiro Mizuno, Tomohide Mizuuchi, Atsuro Morita, Hayato Kanzaki
Publisher: BNN Co., Ltd.
February 15th, 2024
Presentations and Workshops | 発表
Making Mends – a Visible Mending Workshop
Danika van Kaathoven, Emma Huffman
ATGENDER 2024, Utrecht, NL
September 2024
Design for fostering life cycle thinking through a speculative scenario picture book about mending with mycelium in a local circular network
Emma Huffman, Kazutoshi Tsuda, Daijiro Mizuno
Poster Session at the 15th biannual conference on EcoBalance, Fukuoka
November 1st, 2022
Design for Mending with Biomaterials/バイオマテリアルによる修繕のためのデザイン
Emma Huffman, Daijiro Mizuno
Presentation at 75th Annual Meeting of the Textile Machinery Society of Japan, Osaka
June 3rd, 2022
Articles | 論文
Making Mends – Visibly Mending the Circular Economy
Danika van Kaathoven, Emma Huffman, Daijiro Mizuno
PLATE2025 – The 6th Product Lifetimes and the Environment Conference
July 2025
Metaverse Perspectives from Japan: A Participatory Speculative Design Case Study
Michel Hohendanner, Chiara Ullstein, Dohjin Miyamoto, Emma Fukuwatari Huffman, Gudrun Socher, Jens Grossklags, Hirotaka Osawa
Proceedings of the ACM on Human-Computer Interaction
November 2024
Possible Design Principles for 3D Food Printing
Kazuhiro Ogata, Daijiro Mizuno, Emma F Huffman, Eizo Okada
International Association of Societies of Design Research 2021
December 2021
Media
Mending with Mycelium featured in FASHION FICTIONS: IMAGINING SUSTAINABLE WORLDS
by Amy Twigger Holroyd
December, 2025
Articles on Visible Mending published on Migrateur
Three articles about where, how and why I host visible mending workshops has been published on Migrateur, a Japanese web magazine on handicraft in the modern day.
Vol. 1_What does it mean to repair something yourself?
Vol. 2_Make the most of holes and stains!
Vol. 3_Repair is empowerment!
March, 2024
Mending with Mycelium added to Future Materials Bank
“The Future Materials Bank is an archive of materials that supports and promotes the transition towards ecologically conscious art and design practices” – Excerpt From official website
2024
Featured in Goede Gespreksstof
Goede Gespreksstof (NL) is a collection of interviews of personal stories and situated knowledge. The book is aimed for kids and teenagers in the Netherlands to learn about sustainable practices within and around the textile industry. I contributed my knowledge and experience in practicing visible mending.
October, 2023
Interview published in article “Imagining A Future” for Earth Day on Everpress.
An article on imagining alternative futures was published on Everpress including content from an interview about Mending with Mycelium and Meet the Mushroom.
May, 2023
Mending with Mycelium published on NextNature
An article on Mending with Mycelium was published on NextNature.net as part of the Next Generation series.
August 12th, 2022
“The Kin-ji-ya and Mycelium” wins Gold
“The Kin-ji-ya and Mycelium”, an alternative reality picture book from “Mending with Mycelium” wins Gold at Oshima International Picture book Contest 2022
📖 👀 Read the full picturebook on issuu
July 1st, 2022
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