Programme

Rietveld Alumni 2025

Dutch Design Week x Rietveld Alumni 2025

In Stillness

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

Verbonden in draad

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

Technology for more humane decision making

Design your own counterspeech

Design Poort

Festive unveiling of the Design Gate of Eindhoven Design District.

Stimuleringsfonds presents talent

Iranian Mirroring: Your Ally in Circular Interiors

Activating Iranian mirror craftsmanship’s contemporary potential, it's introduced as an accessible, scalable, upcycled, and collaboration-driven craft

Manifestations at Night - Drinks, Demo's and Pitches

Drinks, Pitches & Demos is an energetic gathering for innovators, start-ups and inspired professionals. Network event.

Obscured records — Littoral Material Typologies

Color Record Series: Fermented Time of North Sea & Blue bone

Interior Product Design with a Story

An exploration of interior products in everyday life. To challenge everyday shapes and the way we use products at home.

Een Ode Aan

Shaping the future of care

Innovation through collaboration

Fit-to-farm Models for Biomanufacturing

Can microorganisms color the future of textiles?

Silicon Sublime

De Wachtkamer

Designing shelters with privacy and dignity

The smell of home: Ciàvuru

Playful, flexible lights that spark imagination, invite interaction, and connect memories, materials, and everyday life.

Bridging Minds

Grand design exhibition shows forward and connecting power of design

Fabric Light

A tactile dialogue between material and atmosphere

The Loop

Illuminating the passage of time through gentle motion.

Aftermath

An asymmetric VR game experience interrogating the unequal dynamics of control between human and AI systems, revealing the quiet hierarchies embedded

Design Innovation Sessions: Equal Society

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

Transnatural presents: Invisible Matters

Exhibition exploring the unseen nature

Avans District 2035

Materia Futura

Reconnect with wonder through a sensorial journey of biobased materials, where craft, XR, and imagination converge.

All OF US - Opening Night

Welcome to the official opening night of ALL OF US at the United Cowboys Arthouse - a 9-day program filled with group exhibitions and presentations.