Programme

4TU Design United Dialogues 3: Digital Futures

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

Louvanes, glory to the guts

For Kazerne, young french designer Thibault Philip presents Louvanes, a light fixture made from woven and dyed intestines leftovers from industry

Urgency Calling

Industrial Design and Systemic Design students from HTW Berlin presenting their projects, Bachelor and Master thesis

Stuffed Memories

Transforming ordinary stuffed animals into unique storytellers.

Use Like Play

Balancing ‘useful’ and ‘playful’, turning daily life into small adventures

Beren op de weg

Anti-terrorism obstacles revisited – a well-known Dutch expression translated with 3D concrete printing.

RE:TWIST– Recycled Material and Design from Taiwan

Collect the Natural and Recycle Materials from Taiwan, providing a new asking to the future

Ruins of the search for belonging

An edible mission. More than Packaging_

Our goal is a future where nothing goes to waste, not even the packaging.

Urban Utopia

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

HUB Bouw aan Morgen, van materiaal tot sociaal

An exhibition and programme on sustainable construction — now and in the future.

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.

Nature at the Table

An experimental gastronomy event where food, design, and nature come together.

Am II Alive and Re:Subjected

Emergence invites you into the world of synthetic cell research and shows you the outcome of an open-ended exploration into the future of materials.

New studio New work

New Work New Studio captures a moment in our practice — a collection of works that speak to collaboration, exploration, and renewal.

ENCOUNTER#13, de zorglijn van je leven

FIGHT, FLIGHT or FREEZE?

Soft mapping and woolen armors reflecting hard times in Ukraine.

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.

Dutch Dreams

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

Tracing by Hair

Use human hair as a sensory and symbolic medium to trace the impact of human activity within urban environment(s) from a more-than-human perspective

ILLARIPUNA, “ Andean textiles from the South”

Textiles that tell a story, textiles that legitimize a past, a present, and a future that is written through them.

Fit-to-farm Models for Biomanufacturing

Can microorganisms color the future of textiles?

Shanidar X

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

Ontwerpen, Ontwikkelen, Produceren

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

Moon Bound

A 1 cm³ book soon to land at the lunar South Pole.