Programme

Quilted Mirrors Objects

The colourful reflection of sustainable creativity, laser-cut acrylic (left-over) material gives basic interior objects a vibrant finish.

Roots Exhibition, Plantbased

Design starts (and ends) in the soil. Our presentation 'Plantbased' explores how we grow, eat and create beyond extraction, toward renewal.

Office of the Winds

Fresh air as a tool for dynamic space.

Urban Utopia

Welcome to Aptum’s home base, where ideas are born, experiments unfold, and light designs come to life.

Living LAB 040 | Rondleidingen en seminars

CurioCity for Future Living

The Digital Decaying Text Machine

Research into the link between attention, data decay, and the sustainability of digital media.

Apathos

Craft your own algorithm and witness manipulation in action

Where contrast creates impact

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

Egglamp x Ayano Koda

Made from real eggs

Friday Next - Future Bio Design

Sculptural Vases between Brutalism and Poetry

The Red Landscape

De Makersmarkt

Studio Judith Spil, Studio Nean, Bowen de Boer Design.

de-obsoletion

Reimagining what has been left behind

Fashion: Gu Spirit – Post-Human Witchcraft

Heavy Light - Tender Brutalism

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

Basic Instinct: Making–With

Beauty and Symbiosis as a Necessity

Workshop Depicting Dark Waters

Learn about the Deep Sea Coral Ecosystem with glass artist Alice Baker and Dr. Rhian Waller while handling real skeletons and glass samples.

Graduation Show 2025

City Memories

Focuses on the stories, memories, and emotions that scent evokes, hidden layers beneath the speed and structure of urban life.