Programme

GROWinK : Living prints that return to nature

Living bio-inks combining fungi and bacteria to create self-decomposing, regenerative prints.

Transnatural presents: Invisible Matters

Exhibition exploring the unseen nature

The Alien Between Us: Intimacy Through Biofeedback

Embodied Empathy in Technologically Mediated Interactions

Woven Bricks, ode to masonry

Flow follows

Let the Monster Speak

Folk

A material exploration into the Broomcorn plant.

Seeds of Hope

IK TREK HET NIET MEER!

From tension, through exertion, to relaxation.

Redesigning Design Weeks at DDW 2025

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

Kinderkunstclub: Bouw mee aan de toekomst!

Create your own cardboard artwork at the Kazerne and Van Abbemuseum!

Designs for the Material Future

Engaging creativity and experimentation across generations and disciplines towards bio-based and circular material solutions

Fashion: Gu Spirit – Post-Human Witchcraft

Lignum-Motricium (Hout als beweger)

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

Next, Now, Then

Looking back and thinking ahead

FIGHT, FLIGHT or FREEZE? Workshop Sketch Emotions

But I can draw - by Daryna Pasyuta (Kyiv, Oekraine), artist, architect and urban planner.

Light into Darkness

Alexandre Henry repaired everyday objects of civilians living close to the frontline in Ukraine using the same materials that used to destroy it.

Foulon & Van Verrewegen

Objects Tell a Story

DayDayGay presents: Cocktales #7, DDW edition

Am II Alive and Re:Subjected

Emergence invites you into the world of synthetic cell research and shows you the outcome of an open-ended exploration into the future of materials.

AstroFeast

Reimagining space nutrition, AstroFeast addresses the aesthetic, physiological, and psychological needs of future space travellers.

STRUCTURED TO EXIST

FROM EVERYDAY OBJECTS TO DESIGN

Nature at the Table

An experimental gastronomy event where food, design, and nature come together.

Glass Fossils

Let the past glow in the present.

Workshop On Touch

Dream Recorder

Dream out loud.