Programme

ACTIVISTIC DESIGN INTERVENTIONS

Combining creative, activistic storytelling with scientific research and humor to create awareness for the issues and needs of others.

SMÅLAND

SMÅLAND is an invitation to feel like a child again. A dialogue between form, color, and wonder.

Chronoglossa — No Time, No Detail

A Visual Language for Rediscovering Beauty

Light into Darkness

Alexandre Henry repaired everyday objects of civilians living close to the frontline in Ukraine using the same materials that used to destroy it.

Woven Bricks, ode to masonry

Flow follows

Where contrast creates impact

A project exploring the use of contrast in furniture and lighting design

Ik ben omdat jij ooit was | እኔ ያለሁት አንተ ስለነበርክ ነው

Stories that connect us

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.

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.

Creating New

Creating new is a magazine that helps you, someone with an old broken tent, to bring it back to life again.

Futureproof – Engineering Resilient Cities

Transformation to Circular Cities - a Lab Talk with Buro Happold

Beleef de Bibliotheek van de Toekomst

Step into your next story

Collectie Co

Functional art that sparks joy

Mycelinfo

Reshaping Human Ecological Memory with Interspecies Intelligence

Art d'Eco - cultivating the digital wild

Designing Interaction with Physical AI

Exploring new relationships between humans and intelligent products

Picknick Trafo

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

Umbra Pavilion

Where solar energy becomes tangible

Het Lichtlab

The right light makes everything special

Micro Orchestrism

Heavy Light - Tender Brutalism

Design by absence: a sculptural chair blending brutalist mass with tender, sustainable surfaces.

Textile and Material innovation

A selection of projects that showcase the future of textile and material innovation.

FLOCC: closed-loop cotton flock fibre

FLOCC is a Scotland-Netherlands collaboration with MYB Textiles, transforming cotton textile waste clips into natural flock fibre.

The smell of home: Ciàvuru

Playful, flexible lights that spark imagination, invite interaction, and connect memories, materials, and everyday life.

Wax meets Flax

Biobased coatings to keep linen dry