Programme

GameChangers - Playful innovation, VR,AI,Robotics

Exploring new ways of engagement in the worlds of training, entertainment, and organisational change.

Aesthetics of Bias

Exploring a reflective, interactive, and expressive manifestation of biased human-human interactions

Design Debate 2025

Un/School

Remaster your skills at DDW

Urban Utopia

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

STRUCTURED TO EXIST

FROM EVERYDAY OBJECTS TO DESIGN

Unplug Finissage

A temporary escape withing the design week

Between Growth and Structure

Product Design for a Resilient Future

Product Design for a Resilient Future

4TU Design United Dialogues 3: Digital Futures

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

Collectie Co

Functional art that sparks joy

Workroom in progress 2025

Sculptural Dialogues - Tessa Why and Kyungmi Lee, at ceramic workshop Nulzes present their second exhibitions for 2025

Form Follows Curiosity

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

The TUBES

Art for Interiors - a modular system of lightweight, reflective tubes transforming interiors into dynamic, colorful three-dimensional designs.

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.

POLARIS - Spelen met polarisatie

For a healthy democracy, you need some friction!

FuckUp MeetUp Beyond Applause: Good Intentions Aren’t Enough

Join us for an honest conversation at this Fuck-up Meetup. Together we’ll explore how to move from applause to action.

The Nightmare Before Ddw

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

Stimuleringsfonds presents talent

Sit, Swing, Bounce – Seats That Move With You

Wooden chairs designed to make sitting fun, active and healthy!

4TU Design United Dialogues 2: Thriving Planet

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

Hot Flash Dance Clash

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

CBM Studio X FFF: Het meubelpaspoort van en voor de toekomst

Where craftsmanship and algorithms meet in the furniture passport of the future.

In Stillness

An open studio display by Maxim Duterre. A poetic collection inviting reflection and a moment of stillness through engineering, craft and technology.

Agri-fruit-bag

A biodegradable skin for planting fruit