Programme

Soft Shields

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

Design Innovation Sessions: Thriving Planet

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

Rietveld Alumni 2025

Dutch Design Week x Rietveld Alumni 2025

Face

Face – Wall objects where wood and light merge into a new kind of portrait

Do the DotDotDo!

Unique, acoustic wall decoration

Wall

– and a water stream.

Shanidar X

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

Silicon Sublime

Herinnerings objecten (aan-denken)

How do you preserve a memory? Memorial objects offer the opportunity to cherish something precious in a personal item.

Material Girls

The debut exhibition of our newly formed collective consisting of four young designers; Sien Entius, Carys Higgins, Nell Maher and Martha Nash.

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

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

KÖNIGSWINTER Light Sculpture

A Window of Light and Time

Designed to catch the light

Stoksel Furniture Design, craft meets design

Open O

Islands of Now

“The Power of Together” means learning in community: students, coaches and community partners co-create across disciplines for real-world impact

Meet-the-Designer

Discover a world where instinct, beauty and urgency meet. Meet the designers this Saturday at Kazerne, join the conversation and get inspired!

Designing Society

SONIC MAZE

Enter the SONIC MAZE – Where Sound becomes Space

Re:Layered - Reinventing Waste

Beren op de weg

Anti-terrorism obstacles revisited – a well-known Dutch expression translated with 3D concrete printing.

Ambient Care

Continuous healthcare, always present

1.75 Planets: Fashioning Tomorrow

A visionary fashion design made from waste-based biomaterials, imagining how to dress in a future of scarce resources.

Reflecting Diverseness

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

Onverdeelde Aandacht

An interactive installation

The Mental Gym

Let’s train our mental fitness together!