Programme

Next Nature Conference 2025 - Bio Design

Designed for Society

Fontys Industrial Design Engineering students are committed to solving environmental and social issues through meaningful and responsible design.

Anders, Samen, Sterker

The beauty of a meeting between the power of community and the celebration of uniqueness made visible.

THE FUNKY FACTORY – A peak inside the designer’s brain

When a bag is no longer an accessory, but an artistic experience.

Form Follows Curiosity

An evolving archive of tactile objects that invite touch, imagination and encounter

Muss-Tell

Reducing noise pollution to protect native freshwater mussels.

Mat Party: a social design game for collectivity

an interactive installation that explores ways of being together in public space

COLOUR: CLASSIFIED

Not every colour speaks. But when it does, everything shifts.

Picknick Trafo

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

Small Factory Ring

Transforming industrial precision into contemporary jewelry — modular rings offering limitless customization

New Textile Ecosystems

Threads of Change: Pushing Boundaries in Sustainable Textiles

The Coca Leaf Entanglement

Groepsexpo creatieve mbo vakscholen

Something Talented. Young creators, creative realists.

Nieuw Zwanenburg X WDKA

Harvest of Dreams: Fibers of Renewal

CODE 2025: Technosferatu

On Longevity Culture and Algorithmic Infrastructures

FIGHT, FLIGHT or FREEZE?

Soft mapping and woolen armors reflecting hard times in Ukraine.

Shanidar X

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

form follows fun

rethinking function through humor

Connection Lost

Social media; we once thought they would bring us closer, but they have only pushed us further apart. How can we truly reconnect online?

FACTORY 5.0

Architectural installation that reimagines the act of production through the lens of ecological urgency and non-human collaboration.

Alien Vases, from another dimension.

Tech & Design MeetUp From Local Shit to Local Scrap: Rethinking Raw Materials

Tired of greenwashing? Join us for a thought-provoking EHV Innovation Café, featuring Jean-Marc Moulin (Hydro) & Antonia Schreiber (Manure Materials)

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!

HEALING ROOMS: reclaiming space for care and cure

An Exploration of Patient Rooms as Spaces for Patient Wellbeing