Programme

Urban Utopia

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

The Hidden Taste Trail

Your exclusive and curated food & design day

Kruisstraat Design District

Of Essential Interest to the Dutch culture

Class of 25

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

Product Design for a Resilient Future

Product Design for a Resilient Future

Redesigning Design Weeks at DDW 2025

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

Digital Wellness Center

Reclaim your digital wellness.

Wall

– and a water stream.

Face

Face – Wall objects where wood and light merge into a new kind of portrait

Symbiotic Design Framework Book Presentation

Rethinking Design from within. A systemic approach to dismantle Design’s actual order and build a better world in the meantime.

Sawdust Futures – Printing Wood

Merging Tradition, Craft, and Digital Design

DEWA & DEWI

DEsign from Waste of Agriculture and Industry 2025: Creating a sustainable future from what we already have.

Verkiezingsdebat: Onze digitale samenleving

Het verkiezingsdebat over digitalisering in Nederland. Event in Dutch; (free) ticket available. Limited non-reserved spots available until room full.

Desire Paths - Let's Picnic!

Let’s celebrate good design & good taste. In a beautiful setting of Phood Farm we will host a series of picnics designed for your & our pleasure.

bOre

Stories, Knitted into Being

Design your own scarf or blanket

Maak je eigen internet

What should the internet look like in ten years? Learn about the most pressing challenges and build your ideal online society.

FIGHT, FLIGHT or FREEZE? Meetup Ukraine.

Stories about Freedom and Responsibilities. With Karel Burger Dirven, Esselien van Eerten, Julia Soldatiuk en Fulco Treffers

Matchbox: een nieuw hoofdstuk op Strijp-S

Het Instituut voor het Zandkorrel Hoogtebeleid

An absurd yet hopeful institute that raises the Netherlands by collecting and spreading grains of sand.

Dutch Dreams

Everyday stories, surreal visions and fashion collide in a portrait of Dutchness in this dreamlike journey through the polders.

HEALING ROOMS: reclaiming space for care and cure

An Exploration of Patient Rooms as Spaces for Patient Wellbeing

Kwart van je Leven

How can design help to reclaim 6 hours a day from addictive social media?

Eggshell Re-Planter

Planter made from EggshellCeramic© bio-material

Shanidar X

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