# Drought-Awareness Rug Designs Liselot Cobelens Designs the Dryland Rug in Four Looks By Amy Duong | Published 2022-11-03 | Art & Design Source: Trend Hunter, https://www.trendhunter.com/trends/dryland-rug References: [dezeen](https://www.dezeen.com/2022/11/02/liselot-cobelens-dryland-rug-ddw/) & [liselotcobelens.nl](https://liselotcobelens.nl/)  Liselot Cobelens presents its new Dryland rug at Dutch Design Week and it imagines real-world visual data on how climate change has been impacting local landscapes. It presents four different consequences of drought through the [form of rugs](https://www.trendhunter.com/trends/masterpieces-ii) including loss of crops and animals, dehydration, land subsidence, and wildfires. All of these have affected a particular region in the Netherlands. She speaks about her designs, stating "I was thinking what kind of product or material is the best way of showing a landscape problem," Cobelens told Dezeen. "And then I came across [tufting](https://www.trendhunter.com/trends/textured-rug-design), which kind of gives a symbolic sense of how plants grow. From then on, everywhere I looked in the landscape, I saw rugs," Image Credit: Liselot Cobelens ## Trend Insights (Trend Hunter) - Score: 0.9/10 - Popularity: 12% | Activity: 1% | Freshness: 13% - Audience gender: 50% men, 50% women - Primary generations: Gen Z, Millennial, Gen X - Top markets: North America, South America, Europe, Asia, Africa ## Categories [Trend Hunter](https://www.trendhunter.com/trends) > [Art & Design](https://www.trendhunter.com/artdesign) ## Key Themes ### What's Driving This Trend - **Climate-risk Rugs:** Designing rugs with real-world visual data on climate change consequences that could potentially disrupt the home decor industry. - **Environmental-awareness Design:** Integrating a climate change narrative into household items to raise awareness, with potential disruption to the home goods and interior design industries. - **Sustainable-tufting Materials:** Finding eco-friendly materials to produce rugs with tufting technique, that could disrupt the textiles manufacturing industry. ### Who This Affects Most - **Textile Manufacturing:** This industry could adopt eco-friendly materials and tufting techniques to produce rugs with a climate change narrative, driving demand from environmentally conscious consumers and disrupting the traditional manufacturing processes. - **Home Goods:** Integrating climate change into household items, such as rugs, could create a new niche industry that prioritizes environmental awareness, disrupting traditional home decor products and marketing strategies. - **Interior Design:** Designing spaces with items like climate-risk rugs could change the narrative of the interior design industry, encouraging sustainable options and promoting a greater understanding of climate change. ## Related on Trend Hunter - [Desert-Inspired Floor Coverings](https://www.trendhunter.com/trends/dune-rug.md) - [Eye-Catching Designer Rugs](https://www.trendhunter.com/trends/designer-rug.md) - [Flower-Inspired Vibrant Rugs](https://www.trendhunter.com/trends/espressionismo-floreale.md) - [Season-Inspired Rug Lines](https://www.trendhunter.com/trends/artistic-rug-range.md) - [Climate-Awareness Wool Calendars](https://www.trendhunter.com/trends/irreversible-scale.md) - [Floral-Inspired Home Rug Capsules](https://www.trendhunter.com/trends/magical-garden.md) - [Sustainable Rug Exhibitions](https://www.trendhunter.com/trends/fellow-metamorphosis-of-a-rug.md) - [Dynamic Flatwoven Carpet Designs](https://www.trendhunter.com/trends/matter-colection.md) - [Lifestyle-Themed Patterned Rugs](https://www.trendhunter.com/trends/quotidiana.md)