In the German Museum of Nuremberg – the future museum will take place from August 7, 2025, a special exhibition on innovative and sustainable textiles.
Under the title “Biotexfuture – Founds of the Textile Value Chain”, the Museum presents central research results of the Biotexfuture innovation area under the direction of ADIDAS AG and RWTH Aachen University. In five years of interdisciplinary cooperation, it offers an insight into the redesign of one of the most resource -intensive industries of our time.
Biotexfuture combines a total of 19 forward -looking research projects. This includes projects to circular material flows, where it is about the use of waste or by -products as high -quality materials and circular products to keep valuable resources in the circulation. In addition, biotexfuture also deals with natural raw material sources, such as textiles from beans, sugar cane and algae or with cell -based biofabration: This is about high -performance materials from programmed microorganisms.
All projects unite the goal of rethinking textile value creation – without fossil raw materials, with the most closed material cycles and taking into account ecological and social effects. The focus is not on competition, but complementarity: the approaches presented complement each other to a diverse tool box for change.
“We are very happy to be able to present the project results of Biotexfuture in the German Museum of Nuremberg and to show the audience what their clothing could look like tomorrow. We need such platforms so that future ideas have the chance to become reality,” explains Nicole Espey from the Institute for Textile Technology at RWTH Aachen University.
The innovation room Biotexfuture was funded by the Federal Ministry of Research, Technology and Space Travel as part of the national research strategy Bioeconomy 2030 and is looking for answers to questions such as: How can we produce textiles environmentally friendly and sustainable? Every year, over 120 million tons of textile fibers are produced every year – most of them synthetic and based on fossil raw materials. Materials such as polyester or nylon are omnipresent, but contribute significantly to the climate crisis. The exhibition shows which sustainable, bio -based alternatives are already being researched and developed today in order to make the textile industry resource -friendly and circulating in the future.