Dirty Hands: Nadya Suvorova
The Master Industrial Design invite you to a lecture with guest Nadya Suvorova.
Nadya Suvorova is a Swiss designer based in Zurich. Working across art, design, and science, she explores new materials and technologies, creating poetic journeys that open up new perspectives. Her collaborations include institutions such as CERN, ETH Zurich, and KAUST, as well as brands including Polestar, Audi, and Jaeger-LeCoultre.
She is the founder of Future of Materials, an online platform that curates and showcases cutting-edge materials directly from laboratories. It brings emerging materials out of the laboratory and into the world of design. By making scientific research tangible, accessible, and playful, the platform opens up a space to explore how new materials might change the way we think, make, and design for the future.
https://nadyasuvorova.com
@nadyasuvorova
https://futureofmaterials.com
@futureofmaterials
The event will take place on Thursday, October 29, 2026, at 5 p.m. in 4.K13 Galerie 1, ZHdK, Toni Areal.
Dirty Hands is an invitation to explore new ways of working—ways that are hands-on and reflective, experimental and critical, proactive and self-aware, deeply rooted in practice. It embraces contradiction, the tension between creation and consequence, and the need for design to evolve.
This lecture series explores the entangled relationships between design, ecology, technology, and society. It highlights the urgent need for approaches that bridge the gap between planetary limitations and human action.
We invite thinkers and makers to navigate these uncertainties with us—to get their hands dirty, share their practice, and rethink what design can and can't do.
