Programme

Open O

Workroom in progress 2025

Sculptural Dialogues - Tessa Why and Kyungmi Lee, at ceramic workshop Nulzes present their second exhibitions for 2025

Glass Fossils

Let the past glow in the present.

In full bloom

A colorful and flourishing indoor garden beneath a spacious skylight. Featuring orchids and plants grown on Dutch soil.

4TU Design United Expo

Less Hope More Action! Let’s not be paralysed by ecological crises and threats to democracy; let’s ACT with optimism.

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.

Of Wells, Vessels and Whispers

What does it mean to meet, care for and listen to Water?

Where Have I Been Hiding?

An attempt to repair the connections I thought I had lost.

Unexpected

An exploration of material perception in seating design.

Big from Small: Inclusive Design in the Kitchen

The design students’ experiment focuses on creating inclusive kitchen tools that can be used by people with limited physical abilities

Form follows Friendship

A networking breakfast for design talents & professionals from Germany and the Netherlands

Awakening Hammer-Ritual of Qi

A culturally-inspired wellness game prototype for rethinking sedentary breaks through play, breath, and movement.

Design van moleculen - anders bekeken

VNCI

Sawdust Futures – Printing Wood

Merging Tradition, Craft, and Digital Design

wear | us

beautiful everywear made together

Lignum-Motricium (Hout als beweger)

Lignum-Motricium explores the dynamics of human innovation through the lens of natural processes, questioning our relation with technology.

Tramrails Kandelaar

A piece of the city at home.

Rondom

Investigating construction through material efficiency and flexibility.

Fit-to-farm Models for Biomanufacturing

Can microorganisms color the future of textiles?

Sculptural Vases between Brutalism and Poetry

The Red Landscape

LinumTube – Framing Circularity

Convertible furniture made from renewable flax and infinitely recyclable steel tubes.

Archive of the unbroken

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

FuckUp MeetUp Beyond Applause: Good Intentions Aren’t Enough

Join us for an honest conversation at this Fuck-up Meetup. Together we’ll explore how to move from applause to action.

Forget me not

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

FIGHT, FLIGHT or FREEZE? Workshop Woolen Amulets