Programme

New Textile Ecosystems

Threads of Change: Pushing Boundaries in Sustainable Textiles

Love The Look?

Will You Still Look Away?

Controlling roughness

Exploring the influence of 3D printing on the roughness of a bio-circular material to design controlled acoustic properties

Ballad of Import-Export: Harvesting Gas and Grapes

Import–Export: A gas-pipe sculpture, inspired by Moldovan centralized pipeline network, and a grape harvesting tool, that performs fortune-telling.

Sit, Swing, Bounce – Seats That Move With You

Wooden chairs designed to make sitting fun, active and healthy!

Custody

A playful display of human's overprotectiveness of organic individuals.

An edible mission. Fusion of Materials_

Strong Meanings, stunning Materials, substantial Messages.

ARTISTS IN RESIDENCE 2025

The Schoenenkwartier will present at Dutch Design Week 2025 the Artists in Residence who resided and/or worked at the Schoenenkwartier during 2025.

Designstudio vd Mortel. Idea to design, design to Story

Three-Toe Shoe Concept

Fragments of Wonder

A new reflection: from local shards to design.

Care and Repair

Carbon Cell

A compostable, carbon-negative foam for packaging as a replacement for polystyrene.

Hide

Respyre

Low-maintenance green façades with moss concrete that purifies the air, cools, and supports urban biodiversity.

Open Studio

The Design (of the Practice) is the Practice

4TU Design United Expo

Less Hope More Action! Let’s not be paralysed by ecological crises and threats to democracy; let’s ACT with optimism.

From Text-to-Clay

Material Dialogues Between Ceramics and AI

(Re)vived & (Re)woven

Urban Reef

in samenwerking met HUB Bouw aan Morgen - van materiaal tot sociaal

OOO (Out Of Office)

So, what kind of work future are we creating?

FLOCC: closed-loop cotton flock fibre

making motion

Shaping kinetic expressivity of textile through embodied interaction

FLOCC: closed-loop cotton flock fibre

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

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.