ABOUT
Designing for Continuity
Bricolage HSZ is a founder-led practice working on textile systems, material behaviour, and long‑term product responsibility.
The practice was founded by Henrietta Szakonyi and focuses on one central question:
How can textile products and systems remain viable over time — materially, economically, and structurally?
The work sits at the intersection of design, production reality, and regulatory change.
A practice grounded in material reality
The practice is led by textile and fashion designer Henrietta Szakonyi.
Its work is grounded in the observation of how materials behave over time — how textiles wear, how garments age, where failure begins, and how early decisions influence repairability, remade potential, and long‑term responsibility.
Over the past decade, the practice has explored remade approaches, modular redesign concepts, and decision structures that allow textile products to remain valuable beyond a single cycle.
Central to this work is the development of:
Design for Seven Seasons — a decision architecture structuring product responsibility across time
Nature‑First perspective — treating materials as living systems that evolve and change
remade construction logics
infrastructure concepts for long‑life textile systems
This perspective connects fibre, textile, garment construction, use, and regulation into one coherent design logic.
Team & collaboration
Bricolage HSZ is a founder-led practice, but the work is not carried out alone.
Depending on the project, I collaborate with a small group of long-term partners across production, infrastructure, and system development. This includes expertise in:
software and systems engineering
textile machinery and production engineering
supply chain and operational processes
material development and testing
social enterprise and funding structures
These collaborations make it possible to translate design-led thinking into workable, certifiable, and adaptable systems — particularly in the context of remade production and shared infrastructure.
The structure remains intentionally modular and grows with the systems being developed.
How the practice works
Bricolage HSZ operates across three connected areas:
Advisory — founder-led work with organisations at the point where early material and product decisions shape long-term outcomes.
Studio — applied validation of remade feasibility and controlled pilots under real production conditions.
Co‑Lab — collaborative research and development exploring how shared infrastructure for long-life textile systems and industrial remade could operate.
Not every project moves across all three areas, but all work follows the same design logic.
Teaching & knowledge exchange
Alongside applied work, the practice contributes to teaching and knowledge exchange across academic and industry contexts.
This includes university teaching, workshops, and collaborative formats focused on longevity, material behaviour, and remade textile systems.
Teaching functions as an extension of the practice — translating material and system knowledge into shared understanding.
Why this work matters
Textiles rarely fail because of missing intention. They fail because time, use, and material behaviour are not fully considered when decisions are made.
Long‑term textile systems cannot emerge from design, consultancy, or technology alone. They require clear decisions, collaboration, and structures able to evolve over time.
Bricolage HSZ works with organisations willing to pause at the right moment — in order to move forward with clarity.
A personal note
This work has grown from years of working closely with materials, systems, and people — across design, research, and education.
It is built on the belief that responsibility does not emerge from better products alone, but from better material relationships.
If you are navigating complexity and looking for grounded direction, you are welcome to get in touch.