Ariane van Dievoet is the co-founder and curator of Augusta. She has made material reuse the focus of her design work since 2019. She explores the role that technology and digital tools can play in repurposing materials. The designer creates furniture and objects from mirrors and stones sourced from demolition sites or discarded items. She collects, transforms and combines them with wood offcuts or wood from the Sonian Forest.
Originally from Belgium, Ariane began her career in Brooklyn, where she founded her design studio in 2014. In 2018, she returned to Brussels and specialised in sustainable design and digital tools. She is also a design professor at CAD (College of Art and Design) in Brussels.
In 2023, she co-founded Augusta gallery to highlight the diversity of voices in sustainable design.
“Each melt brings an unexpected result. We quickly realised that we could learn to direct the process but not control it entirely. It’s an interesting exercise in letting go. Every piece that comes out of the fire is a surprise and we adapt our plans accordingly.”
— Ariane van Dievoet, on her collaboration with Didier Henry
