Designing with awareness
At Saxion, we educate designers who think critically and create with empathy. Our practice is built on five lines:
Culture – design with empathy and understanding.
Technology – use innovation to explore new realities and strengthen circularity.
Business – create value and take responsibility.
Creativity – experiment and dare to fail.
Reasoning – think sharply and stay curious.
Students collaborate with partners and researchers on spatial and social questions. They design not to follow, but to shape change.
Interior Design for Society
The exhibition Interior Design for Society presents seven graduation projects that explore how design can respond to social and emotional needs. From inclusive education to mental health, loss and heritage — these projects show how interiors shape the way we live, meet and move forward. Each work translates personal research into space: a classroom that fosters belonging, a VR world that makes ADHD tangible, a landscape that invites reflection. Together, they reveal design as dialogue — between people, systems and stories.
Projects on display
Phila van der Meulen – Design Museum The Hague
An interactive exhibition connecting comic art and digital media through Augmented Reality.
Aron van Delft – Het Walfort
Reviving a listed estate into a multifunctional cultural venue celebrating timeless grandeur.
Jenny Bouwman – ADHDay in the Life
A VR experience revealing the challenges and strengths of living with ADHD.
Joya Osayi – ’t Partje
A co-created learning space that fosters safety and inclusion in primary education.
Gina Hulshof – After
A poetic spatial design about grief, offering a soft place for remembrance and renewal.
Sarah-Maria Geuze – Sprekend Landschap
Three sculptural interventions guiding perspective and wonder in the Veluwe landscape.
Julie den Beer Poortugael – Rethinking Textures
A sensory translation of landscape through texture, light and sound using recycled materials.
