Programme

Transparency & Fluidity

An exploration of glass, light and movement

Product Design for a Resilient Future

Product Design for a Resilient Future

Joyful Rebellion

Joyful & activist product design

Textile and Material innovation

A selection of projects that showcase the future of textile and material innovation.

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?

LinumTube – Framing Circularity

Convertible furniture made from renewable flax and infinitely recyclable steel tubes.

From Waste to Gold

Our world is collapsing. A New Economy of high performance material is rising. From Nature To Nature.

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.

Urban Utopia

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

Unexpected

An exploration of material perception in seating design.

co • MATTERS

An open hardware system

Re:Layered - Reinventing Waste

Shanidar X

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

Any Way the Wind Blows

A creative journey by illustration studio Zenk One that leads to beautiful interior- and art objects in any kind of way.

Digital Foosball table

The first digital foosball table connects all kind of people and make then have fun.

City Memories

Focuses on the stories, memories, and emotions that scent evokes, hidden layers beneath the speed and structure of urban life.

Other Characters - An Alphabet of Shapes

Indian block print as dialogue between cultures.

The Slide Light by Georgious

Change the feel of your room with a simple slide.

COLOUR: CLASSIFIED

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

City at Sea Level

Tramrails Kandelaar

A piece of the city at home.

Do the DotDotDo!

Unique, acoustic wall decoration

FLOCC: closed-loop cotton flock fibre

FLOCC is a Scotland-Netherlands collaboration with MYB Textiles, transforming cotton textile waste clips into natural flock fibre.

suzusan

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