Programme

Circular Wool – Robotufted Carpet

Transforming raw wool — once a byproduct of the food industry — into refined interior textiles through high-quality processes.

Urban Utopia

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

Product Design for a Resilient Future

Product Design for a Resilient Future

Lydia Nieuwmeijer, Lotte Raida, Fenna Hofstede

Reflecting Diverseness

Socio-political relevant statistical data presented in a novel and visually striking way, illustrating how diverseness creates balance and richness.

Sweco Co/Lab: Wat als de aarde onze klant is?

What would the world look like if we considered Earth our client?

Design Innovation Sessions: Equal Society

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

Vlees Bewust

An exploration of the essence of meat consumption, expressed through a textile collage centered on the hare.

Machine Law for Human Life

Prototyping legal logic into digital public services for life events and basic economic security. - Session October 22 - Digital Futures

City Memories

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

Nohri

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

Tracing by Hair

Use human hair as a sensory and symbolic medium to trace the impact of human activity within urban environment(s) from a more-than-human perspective

KeramiekCROSSOVER | Draaien met…

Which role have tradition, innovation and perception in our experience of clay?

Redesigning Design Weeks at DDW 2025

How can we rethink the social and environmental impact of design weeks on their host cities?

wear | us

beautiful everywear made together

Creating New

Creating new is a magazine that helps you, someone with an old broken tent, to bring it back to life again.

form follows fun

rethinking function through humor

Silent transformations

An ode to hidden particularities

Code Rood

Introductie tot Dutch Design Week

Introduction to Dutch Design Week

Phanthera_The Dream Guardian

An Adaptive VR Exergame for Posture-Aware Recovery During Work Breaks

Interior Product Design with a Story

An exploration of interior products in everyday life. To challenge everyday shapes and the way we use products at home.

Open Studio

The Design (of the Practice) is the Practice

Resonance

Building TT

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