Programme

Moon Bound

A 1 cm³ book soon to land at the lunar South Pole.

All the woMEN from Venus

How the menopausal experience can be improved.

Gesprek Woonopgave: Beter Benutten Bestaande Bouw

The future is already built. We explore how we can tackle the housing crisis in an integrated way and what promising initiatives already exist.

4TU Design United Expo

Less Hope More Action! Let’s not be paralysed by ecological crises and threats to democracy; let’s ACT with optimism.

Nohri

A collective experiment of coexistence through Nohri—immersive play that reveals difference without erasing it.

Mohs Chair & Echo Side Tables

Transforming recycled material waste into playful, experimental furniture with new shapes and leftover materials.

Sliver Fiber Printer

Re-spinning the Textile Innovation Chain

Art d'Eco - cultivating the digital wild

Game-playing Sessions: Our Future Is Somewhere Here

Create possible future scenarios with this collective conversational game.

Red Box

Red Box is a programme that brings together designers and organisations who use empathetic and thoughtful design to strengthen the position of women.

The Nightmare Before Ddw

Let's ease drama of deadlines. A provocation by emerging designer Michela D'Angelo exhibiting at the MiDA-lab Studio

Some Memories Choose to Stay, Others Flee

An intimate archive of three generations—diaries, voices, and light—mapping what’s remembered, what’s silenced, and what slips away.

Materia Futura

Reconnect with wonder through a sensorial journey of biobased materials, where craft, XR, and imagination converge.

Urban Utopia

Welcome to Aptum’s home base, where ideas are born, experiments unfold, and light designs come to life.

Touch Of Connection

Interactive exhibition designed to create physical awareness.

Mat Party: a social design game for collectivity

an interactive installation that explores ways of being together in public space

Messy Futures

Messy Futures explores everyday life in 2050, where today’s mess becomes tomorrow’s possibility.

Tafelwerk

A vivid groupexhibition curated by Atelier Fig where design, art and gastronomy merge into a unique experience of discovery, dialogue and connetion.

Phanthera_The Dream Guardian

An Adaptive VR Exergame for Posture-Aware Recovery During Work Breaks

FAAJA / wood coil lamps

Crafted Layers of Wood and Light

The Weight of What We Build

An immersive installation where materials speak, making the weight of construction tangible and inspiring new futures of design.

New Constructions

Experimental furniture in glass and steel wire

Machine Law for Human Life

Prototyping legal logic into digital public services for life events and basic economic security. - Session October 22 - Digital Futures

Solarpunk Unbound

Introduction to Solarpunk. Visions, art, science and practical manifestations. Including exhibition, expert meeting, workshop, unconference

Embassy of Livestock Animals - A Design Workshop

Reflect on inclusion by exploring how design can open space for the lives and perspectives of non-human entities.