Zsofia Kollar

HUMAN MATERIAL LOOP,
2022

HUMAN MATERIAL LOOP by designer and founder Zsofia Kollar researches the concept of humans as a sustainable material of the future and proposes an alternative material to integrate into our daily products. In Europe 72 million kg of human hair, waste ends up in landfills or in the drainage system causing several problems. HUMAN MATERIAL LOOP integrates human hair into our textile production, lowers the demand for cotton and exchanges synthetic fibers for natural ones, and creates impact by integrating a local, biodegradable fiber into our textile industry.

Studio HILO undertook the preparation of the raw material, using the HILO Spinning Machine to spin yarns from natural human hair.