Programme

When the devil comes for our heels

Paul Heijnen and Friends is an intimate group exhibition

Fashion Tech: Like Insects

New Textile Ecosystems

Threads of Change: Pushing Boundaries in Sustainable Textiles

Design Innovation Sessions: Health & Well-being

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

Kiki & Joost - Ko TS 23, pink &Beamsketch light

A selection of works will be shown at the entrance of Klokgebouw ‘Creating our living environment’ & ‘Achieving our equal society’

4TU Design United Dialogues 2: Thriving Planet

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

Design Beyond Vision: Tactiel Schilderij

Exploring how images can be experienced through touch, making visual culture accessible beyond vision.

4TU Design United Dialogues 5: Equal Society

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

Ervaringskunst zoekt creatieve ondersteuning

“How can you improve the lives of people with a permanent condition through creative methods and unexpected collaborations?"

In Action: Kiki & Joost and Friends

25 years in motion: new works, bold collabs, live prints, and garden-grown tapestries—Kiki & Joost in full creative flow.

Re-charge #2

Listening room

4TU Design United Dialogues 3: Digital Futures

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

Technology for more humane decision making

Design your own counterspeech

Cubcho: Empowering children to shape their own play

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

(non) adversarial living companions

A design research project examining algorithmic impacts on material culture

MECHANICAL SYSTEMIC TWIN

Talk with the system! Learn and experiment during a physical, experiential co-sensing session: capturing and co-design in, with and between systems.

Natural Layers Within

The collection enhances natural materials in contemporary interior objects and is inspired by the curious shapes of plane tree bark.

City Memories

Focuses on the stories, memories, and emotions that scent evokes, hidden layers beneath the speed and structure of urban life.

Re:Layered - Reinventing Waste

Soft Shields

What looks soft from afar can, in fact, be powerful.

Co-Creation & RISO Animation

‘How to enter from the exit’ reimagines cultural institutions through collaboration; Onomatopee also presents a RISO Animation & Coding Masterclass.

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

Unplug Vernissage

A temporary escape withing the design week

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.

Mycelinfo

Reshaping Human Ecological Memory with Interspecies Intelligence