Programme

CalmCave: Interactive furniture to help you unwind

An interactive piece of furniture designed for public spaces, supporting relaxation and unwinding in overstimulating environments.

Obscured records — Littoral Material Typologies

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

The TUBES

Art for Interiors - a modular system of lightweight, reflective tubes transforming interiors into dynamic, colorful three-dimensional designs.

ReBrew

a second life for your Daily cup of Coffee

Invisible Debris: Workshop

Explore physical manifestations of our digital waste.

Onecht Ceramics

Inconvenience as design language

Unplug

A temporary escape within the design week

Urban Utopia

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

Our Digital Future

Five projects from Master Digital Design graduates investigating digital futures.

Nohri

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

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.

ENCOUNTER#13, de zorglijn van je leven

Op de 4e verdieping

‘Op de 4e verdieping’ (On the 4th floor) is a book + installation by Isabelle Boiten about temporarily living together in a student house in Utrecht.

In Stillness

An open studio display by Maxim Duterre. A poetic collection inviting reflection and a moment of stillness through engineering, craft and technology.

Building TT

During Dutch Design Week, Building TT on Strijp-T opens as an industrial exhibition space where designers and artists showcase their work.

REwild gatherings

we invite you to share time in the garden; our informal and collectively run evening program offers food, music, and space to re-create in nature.

Impact through Design

Meet the Designers: presentations, workshops, and discussions with the very best designers from 100 years of Philips Design.

DDW x Music Innovation at Effenaar

Discover the future of music experience.

Your Pocket, Your Story

What you carry, carries you.

i Food Design

“ENSEMBLE” Empowering the next generation of purpose-driven creative professionals to create thought leaders dedicated to bettering our food systems

DEWA & DEWI

DEsign from Waste of Agriculture and Industry 2025: Creating a sustainable future from what we already have.

Any Way the Wind Blows

A creative journey by illustration studio Zenk One that leads to beautiful interior- and art objects in any kind of way.

Forget me not

52 Bouquets, 365 Images: A Dialogue Between Bloom and Decay.

Gallery Untitled at Piet Hein Eek

pop-up art gallery

The Alien Between Us: Intimacy Through Biofeedback

Embodied Empathy in Technologically Mediated Interactions