Programme

1.75 Planets: Fashioning Tomorrow

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

4th Design & AI Symposium

Re-imagine, re-sist and re-purpose design and AI

Dutch Dreams

Everyday stories, surreal visions and fashion collide in a portrait of Dutchness in this dreamlike journey through the polders.

Dream Recorder

Dream out loud.

Breath of Hope

MECHANICAL SYSTEMIC TWIN

Talk with the system! Learn and experiment during a physical, experiential co-sensing session: capturing and co-design in, with and between systems.

Sculpting Light Through Algorithm and Intention

Nature’s forms, shaped by algorithmic design, crafted in sustainable biomaterials

Back to the Flax #4

Every material has an origin

Brabant Ontmoet presenteert: Doendenkers!

Brabant is growing. In numbers, ambitions and opportunities. That is not gloom and doom at all when vision and courage meet.

VOLTA

Help your employees to break free from social media addiction by tracking scrolling activity and delivering precise, corrective feedback.

Boxed In — Rethinking the Jewellery Box

Nieuw Zwanenburg X WDKA

Harvest of Dreams: Fibers of Renewal

Our Future Is Somewhere Here

A conversational board game about memory, experience, and the futures we shape together.

Shanidar X

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

Leaf it to Nature

Returning control of our taste to nature.

Silicon Souls

by DES.ENG.AGE. A platform for techno-conscious discussions to interface between artists, designers, engineers, researchers and technologists

Award Natuurinclusief Bouwen & Ontwerpen 2025

Award ceremony to announce the best nature-inclusive project of the past two years.

Messy Futures

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

Ocupando Grietas

Latin American Magical Realism as a Creative Framework for Bridging Epistemologies

Louvanes, glory to the guts

For Kazerne, young french designer Thibault Philip presents Louvanes, a light fixture made from woven and dyed intestines leftovers from industry

Unplug

A temporary escape within the design week

Gaza Travel Agency

Designing routes of return for the refugees of Gaza

Class of 25

The annual group exhibition featuring both Dutch and International design schools + the Avenue Of Fresh Perspectives.

Het Instituut voor het Zandkorrel Hoogtebeleid

An absurd yet hopeful institute that raises the Netherlands by collecting and spreading grains of sand.

Herinnerings objecten (aan-denken)

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