NICE Reports - Bakkie Trots

In NICE Reports, our NICE guys, Mark and Robert, go out as reporters to interview professionals and experts on specific themes such as timber construction, circularity, and (nature-inclusive) design. They ask concise, targeted questions about how these experts, these 'NICE people', view the respective topic: what their perspective is, what they themselves contribute, and how they see the current market situation and future. In NICE Reports #1, Mark and Robert visit Iris Veentjer of Bakkie Trots in the Keilewerf in Rotterdam. Bakkie Trots produces coffee cups from local clay.

Bakkie Trots works with local materials and resources to maximize connection with a place or city and to stimulate the local economy. They produce their ceramics as sustainably as possible. They strive for zero-waste and only use existing material. Clay from construction sites and excavation works, which would otherwise be disposed of, is brought to their studio – or clay cave, as they call it – where they transform it into beautiful cups.

And they don't just create a beautiful product; they also want to make people think. Being good to each other and our environment. That begins with reflecting on the unique place where we live together. Bakkie Trots is convinced that drinking from a tangible cup made from the very soil you stand on helps to increase that awareness.

Bakkie Trots made clay coffee cups especially for SAWA using clay that was excavated during the digging of the elevator shaft at the construction site. NICE Developers ERA Contour donated these special cups to the future residents of SAWA.

Do you also want such a unique Bakkie? Order them via the Bakkie Trots website (www.bakkietrots.nl) or order a unique SAWA set in our own webshop.