Programme

Open O

Materia Futura

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

Next Nature Conference 2025 - Bio Design

Form follows Friendship

A networking breakfast for design talents & professionals from Germany and the Netherlands

UNIVORMEN

Basic Instinct: Making–With

Beauty and Symbiosis as a Necessity

GROWinK : Living prints that return to nature

Living bio-inks combining fungi and bacteria to create self-decomposing, regenerative prints.

Storytelling-Design – Timeless with a Story

“More than objects: stories that shape design.”

Ctrl+Coil

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).

Celestial Bodies

This project focuses on the energies of the eight planets in our solar system. Translating them into ceramic vessels and poetry.

Art Tech Fun AI Robots Manifestations

Best of Graduates 2025 Art Academies, International Pioneers, Virtual Worlds..

Designed for Society

Fontys Industrial Design Engineering students are committed to solving environmental and social issues through meaningful and responsible design.

Stuffed Memories

Transforming ordinary stuffed animals into unique storytellers.

The Hidden Taste Trail

Your exclusive and curated food & design day

REMEMBER | RETAKE

Sustainability, re-use, and material exploration

REwild

by implementing regenerative agriculture on an abandoned industrial site, we are exploring how collaborative food production empowers community.

Unplug Finissage

A temporary escape withing the design week

House of Discard: Space-Making under Uncertainty

Game-playing Sessions: Our Future Is Somewhere Here

Create possible future scenarios with this collective conversational game.

Designing Democracy

In need of new dialogues

De Sociale Zuster

An interactive installation in which the Nursing Station transforms into a space for care, encounter, and reflection.

Silent transformations

An ode to hidden particularities

Introducing ASET.

Traditional craftsmanship and modern manufacturing, furniture and objects crafted in Quito, Ecuador.

Between Signals: Meaningful Encounters

A liberating experience beyond the screen