Programme

Messy Futures

Messy Futures explores everyday life in 2050, where today’s mess becomes tomorrow’s possibility.

Raincafe @ Vrijst(r)aat

An interactive 1000 to 8000 liter rainwater storage that grows with the volume of water and celebrates people, water and technology.

Impact through Design

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

Form Follows Curiosity

An evolving archive of tactile objects that invite touch, imagination and encounter

Expo & Food by Friends & Friends of Friends

Open Studio

The Design (of the Practice) is the Practice

Shanidar X

A sculptural meditation on the primal human impulse to create - by the Danish artist Johannes Holt Iversen

Soft Shields

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

i Food Design

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

Co-Creation & RISO Animation

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

Unplug Vernissage

A temporary escape withing the design week

Urban Utopia

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

To Come and to Go

Arriving is a ritual: coat racks mark moments of return and departure in our daily lives.

Bridging Minds

Grand design exhibition shows forward and connecting power of design

Sit, Swing, Bounce – Seats That Move With You

Wooden chairs designed to make sitting fun, active and healthy!

Shadow Labyrinth 2.0

Dressing the Characters of An Imaginary World

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.

Nieuw Eindhovens Peil

Burgeoning Symbiosis

A Delicate Balance of Tradition and Technology.

Roots at Play - contemporary design and art

Lamps, furniture and art rooted in conscious ideas and materials—meet the makers of studio-crafted pieces.

(non) adversarial living companions

A design research project examining algorithmic impacts on material culture

Shaping the future of care

Innovation through collaboration

Joyful Rebellion

Joyful & activist product design

This is (not) a person

Exploring the boundaries between human and virtual connection

Crystalline Layer