Programme

Dream Recorder

Dream out loud.

Fit-to-farm Models for Biomanufacturing

Can microorganisms color the future of textiles?

Water Basin Totem

This installation aims to highlight the use of recycled materials in the built environment to raise awareness about pressing water issues in Africa.

UTSUWA

A collaborative project with Jo Sijen involves a container: an URN.

Krijt-Je-Rijk

A World Record attempt where art, play, and imagination transform the city into a living canvas.

Redesigning Design Weeks at DDW 2025

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

VOLTA

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

DayDayGay presents: Cocktales #7, DDW edition

Aftermath

An asymmetric VR game experience interrogating the unequal dynamics of control between human and AI systems, revealing the quiet hierarchies embedded

Breathe Kritisk

Critical design on trust and loss of control for health informatics

Objects of Exchange

Ambient Care

Continuous healthcare, always present

Fashion: Gu Spirit – Post-Human Witchcraft

Spirit Rock World

Ancient wisdom, crafted rituals, and collective enchantment.

Wall

– and a water stream.

REwild gatherings

we invite you to share time in the garden; our informal and collectively run evening program offers food, music, and space to re-create in nature.

Umbra Pavilion

Where solar energy becomes tangible

Oori apparel 25

An open studio exhibition where garments become sculptural landscapes and textiles are reframed through photography.

Living LAB 040 | Rondleidingen en seminars

CurioCity for Future Living

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.

GROWinK : Living prints that return to nature

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

4TU Design United Dialogues 3: Digital Futures

Let’s not be paralyzed by ecological crises and threats to democracy, but ACT with optimism.

Meegroeien

Veteran trees; trees that connect

Hot Flash Dance Clash

Hot Flash Dance Clash is an interactive game and dance battle by affect lab.

Designing Society