DDW 2025 Recap

[vc_row row_type="row" use_row_as_full_screen_section="no" type="full_width" text_align="left" background_animation="none" css_animation=""][vc_column][vc_column_text css=""]On Saturday, October 17, the doors of The Symbiocene Forest – Roots opened to the general public. Central to the exhibition was the idea of The Symbiocene Forest as an interconnected system, in which the “roots” symbolized the...

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FIRE PIT DEBATE: Roots & Routes

[vc_row row_type="row" use_row_as_full_screen_section="no" type="full_width" text_align="left" background_animation="none" css_animation=""][vc_column][vc_column_text css=""]During the final weekend of Dutch Design Week 2025, BioArt Laboratories and Dr. Landeweerd—a renowned philosopher in the fields of life sciences, science communication, and ethics—organized the Roots & Routes campfire debate. The familiar format of a conversation...

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Warden Willems

[vc_row row_type="row" use_row_as_full_screen_section="no" type="full_width" text_align="left" background_animation="none" css_animation=""][vc_column][vc_column_text css=""]Project NOT JUST AN EGG   Country The Netherlands   NOT JUST AN EGG is an interactive chicken cart installation that invites curious visitors to taste, touch, and discover the contrast between free-range and industrial eggs. By blending sensory experience with critical reflection, the...

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Heather Seo

[vc_row row_type="row" use_row_as_full_screen_section="no" type="full_width" text_align="left" background_animation="none" css_animation=""][vc_column][vc_column_text css=""]Project Soil Recipe   Country Korea   With Soil Recipe, artist Heather Seo transforms everyday waste into fertile soil, revealing the hidden potential of household leftovers. Featuring inspiring sprouting soil sculptures and a recipe book, the exhibition invites visitors to get hands-on with the material or...

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Welcome to the Living Room

[vc_row row_type="row" use_row_as_full_screen_section="no" type="full_width" text_align="left" background_animation="none" css_animation=""][vc_column][vc_column_text css=""] Siyu Li's 'Welcome to the Living Room' is a participatory food installation and social encounter that invites visitors to enter a space where all living beings—human and more-than-human—are welcomed as guests. Reimagining the “living room” as shared ecological...

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Forest Design Workshop

[vc_row row_type="row" use_row_as_full_screen_section="no" type="full_width" text_align="left" background_animation="none" css_animation=""][vc_column][vc_column_text css=""] The best designer on Earth? Nature. The Forest Design Workshop uncovers what is often overlooked in our surroundings. For 3.8 billion years, nature has shaped ingenious solutions that inspire sustainable innovation. The forest itself becomes your studio and...

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Hyphae of Kindness

[vc_row row_type="row" use_row_as_full_screen_section="no" type="full_width" text_align="left" background_animation="none" css_animation=""][vc_column][vc_column_text css=""]Artist Angela Kumar invites people to perform simple acts of kindness directed toward both humans and non-human life forms, and to transform these actions into written contributions that become part of the artwork Hyphae of Kindness. Inspired by...

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Hair Recycling Workshop

[vc_row row_type="row" use_row_as_full_screen_section="no" type="full_width" text_align="left" background_animation="none" css_animation=""][vc_column][vc_column_text css=""]Yi Zhang's sensory experience begins with a guided meditation tracing the journey of discarded hair, inviting participants to reconsider the boundaries between the human and the non-human and to explore how everyday waste might contribute to broader cycles...

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Jade LE RAY

[vc_row row_type="row" use_row_as_full_screen_section="no" type="full_width" text_align="left" background_animation="none" css_animation=""][vc_column][vc_column_text css=""]Project Dear Stranger   Country France   Jade LE RAY's installation invites spontaneous human connection. It gently disrupts the daily rhythm—poetically and playfully—through almost-forgotten forms of communication. A shared sheet of paper in a typewriter, two chairs facing each other, waiting for a conversation...

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The Symbiocene Forest – Roots – Official Opening

[vc_row row_type="row" use_row_as_full_screen_section="no" type="full_width" text_align="left" background_animation="none" css_animation=""][vc_column][vc_column_text css=""]On Friday, October 17, BioArt Laboratories hosted the official opening of the exhibition The Symbiocene Forest – Roots, attended by more than one hundred participants. Contributions by over 80 international makers were presented as an interconnected constellation of...

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