Programme

Symbiotic Design Framework Book Presentation

Rethinking Design from within. A systemic approach to dismantle Design’s actual order and build a better world in the meantime.

Nohri

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

Onverdeelde Aandacht

An interactive installation

Data als onbekende vervuiler

Making the hidden impact of data visible.

Class of 25

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

Urban Utopia

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

Workshop Wanted

During Dutch Design Week 2025, designer Teun Zwets sets out on a demonstrative search for a new workshop.

Design Innovation Sessions: Living Environment

Short and powerful sessions by CLICKNL. Explore where value-driven design and academic research meet, with urgent topics and inspiring speakers.

Am II Alive and Re:Subjected

Emergence invites you into the world of synthetic cell research and shows you the outcome of an open-ended exploration into the future of materials.

Joyful Rebellion

Joyful & activist product design

Connection Lost

Social media; we once thought they would bring us closer, but they have only pushed us further apart. How can we truly reconnect online?

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

NEWBEEZZZ

Global warming is welcoming new species into our urban gardens. We live among them, but who are these newcomers and what do they pursuit?

Lenços de Força

About family stories, feminism and Portuguese roots.

Celestial Bodies

This project focuses on the energies of the eight planets in our solar system. Translating them into ceramic vessels and poetry.

Monsterlijke Samenstellingen

What happens to the language when we further entangle these monstrous outcomes of the spelling system through the practice of simplification?

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.

The Imperfect Perfection of the Handmade

The Value of Handwork in Contemporary Design.

Re_Work, Envisions by TextielMuseum

Celebrating the use and reuse of table linen

Shadow Labyrinth 2.0

Dressing the Characters of An Imaginary World

Sculptural Vases between Brutalism and Poetry

The Red Landscape

Nieuw Eindhovens Peil

The Facebook Museum: bringing the end closer together

Why we haven't succeeded in letting go of Big Tech (yet).

ReKnit Edit

Giving new life to discarded knitwear using interchangeable design elements.

FLOCC: closed-loop cotton flock fibre

FLOCC is a Scotland-Netherlands collaboration with MYB Textiles, transforming cotton textile waste clips into natural flock fibre.