Programme

Picknick Trafo

How can resistance to transformer stations be turned into a place for dialogue?

Technology for more humane decision making

Design your own counterspeech

The Imperfect Perfection of the Handmade

The Value of Handwork in Contemporary Design.

de-obsoletion

Reimagining what has been left behind

Our Digital Future

Five projects from Master Digital Design graduates investigating digital futures.

Layers of Living: Renée Gailhoustet's Housing

FINISHED FORMS: the residence

A collective exhibition presenting a fully furnished space, showcasing functional design with a strong focus on material and form.

Design Debate 2025

Unplug Vernissage

A temporary escape withing the design week

IDA Chair and sofa

Launch event during Dutch Design Week - 26 Oktober 14:00hr. From waste wool to timeless comfort.

Math Art meets Sustainable Material

Wool, needles, felt, spirals, codes from nature.

Ai, Ai, Ai

a space to play, fail and tinker with machines

FIGHT, FLIGHT or FREEZE? Lessen uit Oekraïne

Workshop "What can I do myself?"

Folk

A material exploration into the Broomcorn plant.

SKRAF

Interwoven language

(non) adversarial living companions

A design research project examining algorithmic impacts on material culture

Econario

By growing or declining, this artwork visualises how our political choices today influence the biodiversity of tomorrow.

When the devil comes for our heels

Paul Heijnen and Friends is an intimate group exhibition

Eco-Amnesia: op zoek naar verloren perspectieven

Eco-Amnesia: in search of forgotten perspectives

Monsterlijke Samenstellingen

What happens to the language when we further entangle these monstrous outcomes of the spelling system through the practice of simplification?

How to Design a Just City

A new toolbox for just design

Bloomlight S

An interactive living light that bends to greet you

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.

Ballad of Import-Export: Harvesting Gas and Grapes

Import–Export: A gas-pipe sculpture, inspired by Moldovan centralized pipeline network, and a grape harvesting tool, that performs fortune-telling.

The Secret Language

—— Silent codes of touch