Programme

From Alaska to Eindhoven: A Voyage in Frozen Forms

The six-month exhibition at the Anchorage Museum explores the morphology of Alaska’s winter landscape, using cardboard to explore structure and form.

To Come and to Go

Arriving is a ritual: coat racks mark moments of return and departure in our daily lives.

i Food Design

“ENSEMBLE” Empowering the next generation of purpose-driven creative professionals to create thought leaders dedicated to bettering our food systems

Percept

Walk with percept, sound-based augmented reality system designed to alter and heighten our experience of the world through realtime audio manipulation

Other Intelligences

Other Intelligences

AstroFeast

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

Boxed In — Rethinking the Jewellery Box

Raincafe @ Vrijst(r)aat

An interactive 1000 to 8000 liter rainwater storage that grows with the volume of water and celebrates people, water and technology.

Poma/Olera - setting a future food table

Designing for conscious food habits: where ancient knowledge meets future-proof solutions.

Embassy of Livestock Animals - A Design Workshop

Reflect on inclusion by exploring how design can open space for the lives and perspectives of non-human entities.

Kruisstraat Design District

Of Essential Interest to the Dutch culture

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

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

The Digital Decaying Text Machine

Research into the link between attention, data decay, and the sustainability of digital media.

Messy Futures

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

FLOCC: closed-loop cotton flock fibre

FLOCC is a Scotland-Netherlands collaboration with MYB Textiles, transforming cotton textile waste clips into natural flock fibre.

Silent transformations

An ode to hidden particularities

Raw Color x RAL

The functionality of colours

Please be seated.

Sculptural stools and home accessories by BLUBA Studio — 3D-printed, bold in form, customisable in color, and made in small series.

In-dividual 2025

The Way Weather Shapes In-dividual

De Makersmarkt

Studio Judith Spil, Studio Nean, Bowen de Boer Design.

Unplug Finissage

A temporary escape withing the design week

The Nightmare Before Ddw

Let's ease drama of deadlines. A provocation by emerging designer Michela D'Angelo exhibiting at the MiDA-lab Studio

Rondom

Investigating construction through material efficiency and flexibility.

Friday Next - Future Bio Design

Controlled by Comfort

A 32-metre audience-made canvas and a heartbeat-responsive wearable performance.