Mette Bak-Andersen is the founder of Material Design Lab at KEA, Copenhagen School of Design & Technology and a PhD Fellow at The Royal Danish Academy of Fine Arts, School of Design, KADK. She has a background as an industrial designer and has worked several years in the industry both in Barcelona and Copenhagen. Her research is situated in the cross-disciplinary field between art, natural science and technology and is focused on the relation between sustainability, material knowledge and the design process. Her ambition is to bring the material dialogue that is known from craft back into the contemporary design process.