Programme

REMEMBER | RETAKE

Sustainability, re-use, and material exploration

Urban Utopia

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

Forest Design Workshop

Creativity beyond walls — experience nature, think differently, and co-create ideas that matter.

Cubcho Workshop: Press Your Paper Blocks!

A sustainable mechanical press made of wood and stainless steel, Cubcho enables children to transform old paper into robust building blocks.

Designs for the Material Future

Engaging creativity and experimentation across generations and disciplines towards bio-based and circular material solutions

Silent transformations

An ode to hidden particularities

Chronoglossa — No Time, No Detail

A Visual Language for Rediscovering Beauty

RE/CRAFT

RE/CRAFT integrates sustainable and creative design,artistic expression to guide the public to think about the relationship between humans and future.

Arceo Flow

"A line born from a single fluid gesture, free in space, that becomes a light" ARCEO Flow is our new light, fluidity, and movement exploration.

Archive of the unbroken

Archive installation with an object-intervention workshop that reframes grassroots repair in a post-consumerist world.

Expo & Food by Friends & Friends of Friends

Kindred Crop

Humanitarian Kit for Nutritional Independence

ClipHut Shelving System

Tool‑free modular shelving made of dyed wood; award‑winning, German‑made, repairable and endlessly expandable—clip‑in assembly evolves with you.

Data als onbekende vervuiler

Making the hidden impact of data visible.

Workshop Depicting Dark Waters

Learn about the Deep Sea Coral Ecosystem with glass artist Alice Baker and Dr. Rhian Waller while handling real skeletons and glass samples.

Picknick Trafo

How can resistance to transformer stations be turned into a place for dialogue?

Colifichets

A collection where textiles, embroidery and sculpture intertwine. An ode to the layered language of haute couture.

Woven Patchwork: Hybrid Making

How can one textile process inform the development of another? Exploring colour and pattern through spatial installation and vibrant design research.

The Holey Lamp

A woven ceramic lamp

Growing Minds

Fostering ecological thinking and future-ready skills through learning by play.

Integration of Inclusive and Emotional Design

Creating Caring User Experience

Tracing by Hair

Use human hair as a sensory and symbolic medium to trace the impact of human activity within urban environment(s) from a more-than-human perspective

Secrid Talent Podium

Innovative designs pave the way from Industrial Revolution to Evolution.

CODE 2025: Technosferatu

On Longevity Culture and Algorithmic Infrastructures

Ballad of Import-Export: Harvesting Gas and Grapes

Import–Export: A gas-pipe sculpture, inspired by Moldovan centralized pipeline network, and a grape harvesting tool, that performs fortune-telling.