Programme

Our Future Is Somewhere Here

A conversational board game about memory, experience, and the futures we shape together.

Van Nut & Loos, Useless Objects

A satirical series of beautiful useless objects that solve no problems—but raise all the right questions. It questions consumerism.

Rietveld Alumni 2025

Dutch Design Week x Rietveld Alumni 2025

Guests at Autovitesse

Presenting the new generation of designers.

4TU Design United Dialogues 2: Thriving Planet

Let’s not be paralyzed by ecological crises and threats to democracy, but ACT with optimism.

Poma/Olera - setting a future food table

Designing for conscious food habits: where ancient knowledge meets future-proof solutions.

Obscured records — Littoral Material Typologies

Color Record Series: Fermented Time of North Sea & Blue bone

GROWinK : Living prints that return to nature

Living bio-inks combining fungi and bacteria to create self-decomposing, regenerative prints.

ErGeeBee

Textile in dialogue with light and colour

Introducing ASET.

Traditional craftsmanship and modern manufacturing, furniture and objects crafted in Quito, Ecuador.

Veggies on the Wall

Veggie veggie on the wall, who is the greenest of them all?

Alien Vases, from another dimension.

Nieuw Eindhovens Peil

UEG Retrospekt

Stijn Op De Macks

Soap Sink Soak

A washbasin made from palm oil soap.

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.

Wonderlijke Water Woningen

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.

Trails Beyond Aisles: Curating Retail for The Many

Trails is a multi-sensory shopping experience that works for the many people and goes beyond the visual.

Class of 25

The annual group exhibition featuring both Dutch and International design schools + the Avenue Of Fresh Perspectives.

Digital Futures

Digital & AI HUB

Please be seated.

Sculptural stools and home accessories by BLUBA Studio — 3D-printed, bold in form, customisable in color, and made in small series.

thefoundededit

every crafted object is a story

Proud South Craft Talk by Li Edelkoort

Join us for the Proud South Craft book launch & talk by Li Edelkoort, celebrating contemporary craft as a force for cultural and social transformation

Urban Utopia

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