As part of the Tana Design Week 2025, which is currently in its third edition, the Cité des Cultures hosts the exhibition “Materials of possibilities”, carried by Ndao Hanavao, an initiative of Rubis Mécénat – Vitogaz Madagascar. This exhibition has also signed the kick -off of this major design event.
Between ecology, design and future
From June 28 to August 9, 2025, the public will be able to discover through this unusual exhibition how the subjects, sometimes forgotten, can be reinvented and become future resources. It is an exhibition curated by Benjamin Loyalty, bringing together six designer artists, notably Alexandre Echasseriau, Samuel Tomatis, Laureline Galliot, Richianny Ratovo, The Polyfloss Factory and Domi Sanji.
Invasive algae, a biomaterial rich in potentials
On the sidelines of this exhibition, Tana Design Week 2025 offers a rich and varied program including round tables, meetings and free conferences open to all.
The first round table that focused on the ” Valuation of invasive algae », Took place on Monday, June 30. It is an unprecedented discussion platform around the valuation of these invasive algae, an invasive plant which becomes a biomaterial with multiple potentials. In other words, a great moment of exchange to rethink our resources and imagine together new future. The round table has, in any case, enabled the meeting between creation, research, ecology and commitment, through the participation of designer Samuel Tomatis, the critic and historian of the design, Benjamin Loyauté, who is also a design commissioner of Ndao Hanavao, of the executive director of Cetamada, Aina Ramanamamonjy, and the beneficiary of Ndao Hanavao, Aina. This moment of sharing was moderate by the designer Doma Sanji, who is project manager Ndao Hanavao and founder of the Tana Design Week.
Innovation in eco-responsible design
Initiated in 2018 in Antananarivo by Rubis Mécénat and Vitogaz Madagascar, Ndao Hanavao is a creation and innovation laboratory for social design, designed by guest designers and young people in vocational training.
Among these designers invited by this laboratory, the Polyfloss Factory Ltd, which was led to develop in Madagascar the concept of their polyfloss machine, an innovative plastic recycling process inspired by daddy beard, during the first edition of Tana Design Week.
Tana Design Week wins
Besides, this exhibition and this round table are only a tiny part of the 2025 design weekly program.
Since its creation, Tana Design Week aims to energize the Malagasy design scene.
Over the years, the event has won in scope, integrating an increasing diversity of creative disciplines. Under the unifying theme “The genius of plants”, he invites us to explore the multiple facets of this theme, from crafts to architecture through graphics and data-visualization. The objective of this edition is precisely to explore the relationship between plants and design, to promote a dialogue between nature and technologies for a sustainable design and to create a collaboration platform between local and international know-how. It invests eight emblematic places from the capital until July 19.
Hanitra Andria
