Programme

Het Instituut voor het Zandkorrel Hoogtebeleid

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

Redesigning Design Weeks at DDW 2025

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

Next Nature Conference 2025 - Bio Design

CalmCave: Interactive furniture to help you unwind

An interactive piece of furniture designed for public spaces, supporting relaxation and unwinding in overstimulating environments.

Other Intelligences

Other Intelligences

Workshop Wanted

During Dutch Design Week 2025, designer Teun Zwets sets out on a demonstrative search for a new workshop.

Veggies on the Wall

Veggie veggie on the wall, who is the greenest of them all?

Entangled Taste: Forgotten Collaborators

A sensory encounter with Korean food as a multispecies co-creation.

Gaza Travel Agency

Designing routes of return for the refugees of Gaza

The Nightmare Before Ddw

Let's ease drama of deadlines. A provocation by emerging designer Michela D'Angelo exhibiting at the MiDA-lab Studio

Charred Lights

Objects of Illumination elevating the presence of carbonised matter

Ontwerpen, Ontwikkelen, Produceren

We are De Productenmakers. Product development without fuss, from idea to tangible reality.

Kindred Crop

Humanitarian Kit for Nutritional Independence

Picknick Trafo

How can resistance to transformer stations be turned into a place for dialogue?

Beyond the frame

From graphic language to tactile worlds, a collaborative design experience where 2D graphics transform into 3D objects and spaces.

FIGHT, FLIGHT or FREEZE? Workshop Woolen Amulets

Matchbox: een nieuw hoofdstuk op Strijp-S

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.

Design Perron Vrijdagmiddag borrel

TGIF (Thank God it's Friday) afternoon drinks @ Design Perron

Invisible Debris: Workshop

Explore physical manifestations of our digital waste.

The Mental Gym

Let’s train our mental fitness together!

ARTISTS IN RESIDENCE 2025

The Schoenenkwartier will present at Dutch Design Week 2025 the Artists in Residence who resided and/or worked at the Schoenenkwartier during 2025.

Boilers

Objects crafted from scrap copper, such as old boilers, are transformed into unique pieces by blowing glass into them.

Cubcho: Empowering children to shape their own play

A sustainable mechanical press made of wood and stainless steel, Cubcho enables children to transform old paper into robust building blocks.

From Text-to-Clay

Material Dialogues Between Ceramics and AI