Programme

Textile and Material innovation

A selection of projects that showcase the future of textile and material innovation.

STRUCTURED TO EXIST

FROM EVERYDAY OBJECTS TO DESIGN

form follows fun

rethinking function through humor

VOLTA

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

HEMA ontwerpwedstrijd - 100 jaar jubileum editie

HEMA seeks tomorrow's design talent

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Stories that connect us

PHYGITAL SEASONING

Phygital Seasoning redefines taste as a designed experience of perception, not ingredients.

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.

Iranian Mirroring: Your Ally in Circular Interiors

Activating Iranian mirror craftsmanship’s contemporary potential, it's introduced as an accessible, scalable, upcycled, and collaboration-driven craft

Reversing the Food Chain

What happens when we reprioritize sensing the needs of environmental and health stakeholders over selling needs throughout our food chain?

Picknick Trafo

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

Wax meets Flax

Biobased coatings to keep linen dry

The smell of home: Ciàvuru

Playful, flexible lights that spark imagination, invite interaction, and connect memories, materials, and everyday life.

All the woMEN from Venus

How the menopausal experience can be improved.

Synkros: Space for Reconnection & Living Design

A living, biophilic pavilion that invites reconnection through nature-inspired design and multisensory experience.

The Facebook Museum: bringing the end closer together

Why we haven't succeeded in letting go of Big Tech (yet).

Form Meets Feeling in Porcelain

A porcelain collection exploring the circle as a symbol of harmony, touch, and continuity.

Your Pocket, Your Story

What you carry, carries you.

thefoundededit

every crafted object is a story

ALL OF US

- stating differences, liberty and generosity.

Back to the Flax: from Flax to Linen

Join Back to the Flax collective (eleven Design Academy Eindhoven students) and experience how people once crafted their own fabrics.

Celestial Bodies

This project focuses on the energies of the eight planets in our solar system. Translating them into ceramic vessels and poetry.

House of Discard: Space-Making under Uncertainty

Silent transformations

An ode to hidden particularities

Into the Body

Overstimulated? Shift your focus to your own 'inner design' in this grounding space experiment.