onbetaalbaar (unpayable) is a research project born out of love for objects. it’s at the same time a workshop and a think tank, a place where cabinet makers, upholsterers, writers, philosophers, handymen, product designers, restorers, graphic designers – workers and thinkers – meet each other in a materialism with emotion. onbetaalbaar invites people to consider what we throw away, to contemplate the story and the identity of an object, to feel how familiar spaces can look differently, to be confronted with the real costs of a well-made object and to join the brainstorm about how to make things better in a human way.