Programme

RE/CRAFT

RE/CRAFT integrates sustainable and creative design,artistic expression to guide the public to think about the relationship between humans and future.

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

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

Class of 25

The annual group exhibition featuring both Dutch and International design schools + the Avenue Of Fresh Perspectives.

Small Factory Ring

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

THE BOUNDARIES OF SIGHT

Growing Minds

Fostering ecological thinking and future-ready skills through learning by play.

Techno

Rugged elegance, crafted to endure.

Design Innovation Sessions: Digital Futures

Short and powerful sessions by CLICKNL. Explore where value-driven design and academic research meet, with urgent topics and inspiring speakers.

Picknick Trafo

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

Rietveld Alumni 2025

Dutch Design Week x Rietveld Alumni 2025

Design Beyond Vision: Tactiel Schilderij

Exploring how images can be experienced through touch, making visual culture accessible beyond vision.

Rewind

A new life for wind turbines

Poma/Olera - setting a future food table

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

Storytelling-Design – Timeless with a Story

“More than objects: stories that shape design.”

Welded Loop

Welded Loop by Knit in Motion (Suzanne Oude Hengel) and Studio Joris de Groot

Creating New

Creating new is a magazine that helps you, someone with an old broken tent, to bring it back to life again.

Kimono Roots 
 Wearing Earth and Time

4TU Design United Dialogues 2: Thriving Planet

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

To Come and to Go

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

Heavy Light - Tender Brutalism

Design by absence: a sculptural chair blending brutalist mass with tender, sustainable surfaces.

Econario

By growing or declining, this artwork visualises how our political choices today influence the biodiversity of tomorrow.

FIGHT, FLIGHT or FREEZE? Lessen uit Oekraïne

Workshop "What can I do myself?"

Micro Orchestrism

Het Lichtlab

The right light makes everything special

Glass Fossils

Let the past glow in the present.