Programme

Umbra Pavilion

Where solar energy becomes tangible

Resonance of the Self

A visceral sonic experience unfolding in a darkened, dreamlike space

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.

Interwoven: LUCA meets LUCA

A group exhibition featuring master projects from LUCA School of Arts Ghent (Textile Design) and LUCA School of Arts Genk (Productdesign).

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.

Pressence

A lighting serie shaped by tension

Open O

Forest Design Workshop

Creativity beyond walls — experience nature, think differently, and co-create ideas that matter.

Wax meets Flax

Biobased coatings to keep linen dry

Re-charge #2

Listening room

All the woMEN from Venus

How the menopausal experience can be improved.

Dream Recorder

Dream out loud.

Sawdust Futures – Printing Wood

Merging Tradition, Craft, and Digital Design

77Teacups

Contemporary tea rituals of everyday life

Natural Layers Within

The collection enhances natural materials in contemporary interior objects and is inspired by the curious shapes of plane tree bark.

Roots Exhibition, Plantbased

Design starts (and ends) in the soil. Our presentation 'Plantbased' explores how we grow, eat and create beyond extraction, toward renewal.

Op de 4e verdieping

‘Op de 4e verdieping’ (On the 4th floor) is a book + installation by Isabelle Boiten about temporarily living together in a student house in Utrecht.

From Alaska to Eindhoven: A Voyage in Frozen Forms

The six-month exhibition at the Anchorage Museum explores the morphology of Alaska’s winter landscape, using cardboard to explore structure and form.

4TU Design United Dialogues 4: Health & Wellbeing

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

Touch Of Connection

Interactive exhibition designed to create physical awareness.

Redesigning Design Weeks at DDW 2025

How can we rethink the social and environmental impact of design weeks on their host cities?

Light into Darkness

Alexandre Henry repaired everyday objects of civilians living close to the frontline in Ukraine using the same materials that used to destroy it.

4TU Design United Expo

Less Hope More Action! Let’s not be paralysed by ecological crises and threats to democracy; let’s ACT with optimism.

Creating New

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

Joyful Rebellion

Joyful & activist product design