Programme

Dutch Dreams

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

Futureproof – Engineering Resilient Cities

Transformation to Circular Cities - a Lab Talk with Buro Happold

Redesigning Design Weeks at DDW 2025

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

wear | us

beautiful everywear made together

Kwart van je Leven

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

Machine Law for Human Life

Prototyping legal logic into digital public services for life events and basic economic security. - Session October 24 - Equal Society

Design Innovation Sessions: Digital Futures

Short and powerful sessions by CLICKNL. Explore where value-driven design and academic research meet, with urgent topics and inspiring speakers.

From Waste to Gold

Our world is collapsing. A New Economy of high performance material is rising. From Nature To Nature.

Fragments of Wonder

A new reflection: from local shards to design.

Herinnerings objecten (aan-denken)

How do you preserve a memory? Memorial objects offer the opportunity to cherish something precious in a personal item.

KÖNIGSWINTER Light Sculpture

A Window of Light and Time

de-obsoletion

Reimagining what has been left behind

4TU Design United Dialogues 3: Digital Futures

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

4TU Design United Dialogues 5: Equal Society

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

De Wachtkamer

Designing shelters with privacy and dignity

Picknick Trafo

Red Box

Red Box is a programme that brings together designers and organisations who use empathetic and thoughtful design to strengthen the position of women.

Product Design for a Resilient Future

Product Design for a Resilient Future

Ontwerpen, Ontwikkelen, Produceren

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

Fit-to-farm Models for Biomanufacturing

Can microorganisms color the future of textiles?

Class of 25

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

The Alien Between Us: Intimacy Through Biofeedback

Embodied Empathy in Technologically Mediated Interactions

Standard Shipping

Designing products that work with postal services

1.75 Planets: Fashioning Tomorrow

A visionary fashion design made from waste-based biomaterials, imagining how to dress in a future of scarce resources.

Gaza Travel Agency

Designing routes of return for the refugees of Gaza