Programme

Fabric Light

A tactile dialogue between material and atmosphere

Alien Vases, from another dimension.

WOLWEVERS

We weave woolen blankets. 100% plastic-free and from Dutch origin. An ode to the Campine heath sheep, the craft of weaving, and the beauty of wool.

Your Pocket, Your Story

What you carry, carries you.

Embassy of Livestock Animals - A Design Workshop

Reflect on inclusion by exploring how design can open space for the lives and perspectives of non-human entities.

Design Poort

Festive unveiling of the Design Gate of Eindhoven Design District.

Living Colour

Living bacteria as a source of colour

1.75 Planets: Fashioning Tomorrow

A visionary fashion design made from waste-based biomaterials, imagining how to dress in a future of scarce resources.

Muss-Tell

Reducing noise pollution to protect native freshwater mussels.

Charred Lights

Objects of Illumination elevating the presence of carbonised matter

The Holey Lamp

A woven ceramic lamp

Sawdust Futures – Printing Wood

Merging Tradition, Craft, and Digital Design

Bondmaken!

Nature as ally

De Wachtkamer

Designing shelters with privacy and dignity

Verbonden in draad

Research translated into textile, exploring how the shape of women's clothing gains meaning through people, time, and environment.

Avans District 2035

Designs for the Material Future

Engaging creativity and experimentation across generations and disciplines towards bio-based and circular material solutions

suzusan

Hands in Japan. A craft is officially recognized by the government as a “traditional craft” if it is still used in daily life.

MECHANICAL SYSTEMIC TWIN

Talk with the system! Learn and experiment during a physical, experiential co-sensing session: capturing and co-design in, with and between systems.

Am II Alive and Re:Subjected

Emergence invites you into the world of synthetic cell research and shows you the outcome of an open-ended exploration into the future of materials.

Eco-Amnesia: op zoek naar verloren perspectieven

Eco-Amnesia: in search of forgotten perspectives

Van Nut & Loos, Useless Objects

A satirical series of beautiful useless objects that solve no problems—but raise all the right questions. It questions consumerism.

Messy Futures

Messy Futures explores everyday life in 2050, where today’s mess becomes tomorrow’s possibility.

Thomas Dekens, Furniture maker

The furniture is presented in the smallest furniture workshop in the Netherlands, called a Poddie.

HUis voor duurzaam onderwijs

Tool for the transition to sustainable education