Programme

Back to the Flax #4

Every material has an origin

Colifichets

A collection where textiles, embroidery and sculpture intertwine. An ode to the layered language of haute couture.

Scherven brengen geluk

Scherven brengen geluk is an installation by Rebecca Stroeven about the fragility of childhood, created in collaboration with a therapy group

Invisible Debris: Workshop

Explore physical manifestations of our digital waste.

Urban Utopia

Welcome to Aptum’s home base, where ideas are born, experiments unfold, and light designs come to life.

SCHR24.D7.W22.25.3

SCHR24.D7.W22.25.3 serves as a glass time capsule that preserves the ecological rhythms of an island for future generations.

Some Memories Choose to Stay, Others Flee

An intimate archive of three generations—diaries, voices, and light—mapping what’s remembered, what’s silenced, and what slips away.

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.

Stories, Knitted into Being

Design your own scarf or blanket

Percept

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

Ruins of the search for belonging

Kindred Crop

Humanitarian Kit for Nutritional Independence

Workshop Depicting Dark Waters

Learn about the Deep Sea Coral Ecosystem with glass artist Alice Baker and Dr. Rhian Waller while handling real skeletons and glass samples.

co • MATTERS

An open hardware system

Hydro R100

From scrap to design objects within a 100 kilometer radius.

4TU Design United Dialogues 4: Health & Wellbeing

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

Re-charge #2

Listening room

Welke rol speelt de bibliotheek in de toekomst?

Poly Ply

Flexible Plywood and Polymer Composite

Redesigning Design Weeks at DDW 2025

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

Resonance of the Self

A visceral sonic experience unfolding in a darkened, dreamlike space

De kerroksia

One of a Light

Onecht Ceramics

Inconvenience as design language

ENCOUNTER#13, de zorglijn van je leven

4TU Design United Dialogues 2: Thriving Planet

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