Programme archive 2026

NewTexEco | Fashion Tech Farm

NewTexEco

The Garment That Knows Too Much

Paul Heijnen & Cengiz Hartmann | Hall 6

Watch Your Head

Small crafs and design expo

Taiwan Design Research Institute and Atelier YenAn | Kazerne – Design Lab

ISLAND UNDER PRESSURE

The exhibition exploring how design responds to the forces shaping contemporary Taiwan. Materials, industries, design evolve through experimentation.

Mathias Blanc | BioArt Laboratories

Llàgrima Salta

A material exploration of salt crystallization on 3D-printed scaffolding to grow a poetic stage architecture inspired by the salinity of tears

Agak-Agak Unit | PLAN-B

Agak-Agak

A Little More, A Little Less

MAD emergent art center | Stadslab Eindhoven

Stad op het Spel

An interactive journey through time to 2050: what choices will you make? And what happens when the citizens of the future talk back?

Bob Copray & Wannes Royaards | Salon Veneman

Here To Stay

Staat als een huis.

Laila Snevele | NOR

Speculative Design Workshop

WHAT IF YOUR NEXT BIG IDEA STARTS WITH A LEEK? To create unexpected results, you have to take unexpected steps.

Holland Expat Center South & Spiekkleding | Kazerne – Design Lab

Praat Nederlands met me

A range of cleverly designed aids for learning the Dutch language

Di Mao | Kazerne – Design Lab

How A Garden Becomes A Dialogue

Exploring how gestures evolve into tools, transforming gardening into a dialogue between the body, plants and the garden.

Stichting Plug-in-City | Plug in City

WHOOOSH Part II

Teun Zwets | Studio Teun Zwets

NEW STUDIO SUPER SHOW

50 chairs, 50 new collections. An intuitive search for new forms, materials and ways of making.

Caveat | Building TT

The Spoon Press

An interactive pop-up invites visitors to shape raw materials into utensils, reconnecting them to a design process hidden by mass consumption.

Hypercommunication - Caitlin Begg | Piet Hein Eek

Stuck in the Screen? In Defense of Drifting

A talk on hypercommunication and the role of drifting in designing a sociotechnical future with American sociologist Caitlin Begg at Piet Hein Eek.

Vij5 - uitgevers van design producten | APTUM | NRE

20 jaar Vij5

Twenty years of designing, developing and making: the Vij5 collection, reimagined for today.

flavie liu | Klokgebouw

Making Messes

EE Exclusives | APTUM | NRE

SPACE FOR TEXTILES

Tapestries of the 21st Century

Biomaterials Library | BioArt Laboratories

Biomaterials Library: Lithuanian & Baltic Creators

An evolving collection of biomaterials, processes and design objects

Nico Vischi | Kazerne – Design Lab

Make the best you can (with what you have)

An accessible parametric method to make furniture from local scrap material, using whatever tools you have on hand.

ekip: the European Cultural and Creative Industries Innovation Policy Platform | Natlab

From Policy to Action: Putting Europe’s Cultural and Creative Industries at the heart of innovation

Europe has the pieces, now we connect them

Studio Capulin | Piet Hein Eek

Native Objects from Abroad.

Foreign craft with native material cultures; awakening narratives shaped by migration, identity, and the idea of belonging-becoming.

CoolBricks | Klokgebouw

Dirty Works

2,750 unfired earth bricks. 10 tonnes of rammed earth. One pavilion. Get your hands dirty and help build a cleaner future.

Dolle Mina | VEEM floor 8 - home of Manifestations

Dolle Mina: Activism = Social Design

Burning Social Problems since 1970

Uppoo & Dynamo Eindhoven | Dynamo, Basement

In the Head of a Young Mind

Step inside a young mind and experience how mental pressure can shift towards perspective, connection and support.

Studio Noff | Kazerne – Design Lab

Folk

Broomcorn, a material for a changing climate