Christien Meindertsma

Christien Meindertsma is a Dutch designer whose work follows products and raw materials back to their origins. She graduated from the Design Academy Eindhoven in 2003 and has built a practice where research, documentation and making are inseparable. A project may end as a book, an exhibition or a commercial object, but the investigation itself is the work.

Checked Baggage (2004) catalogued 3,267 objects confiscated in a week at Schiphol, and PIG 05049 (2007) traced every product made from a single pig. Later projects include the Flax Project (2012) and its Flax Chair, and Bottom Ash Observatory (2015). Her work is held by MoMA, the Victoria and Albert Museum and the Vitra Design Museum; she has won three Dutch Design Awards and an Index Award, and De Zachte Stad took a Dutch Design Award in 2023 for best commissioner Rotterdam Circulair.