Jalila Essaïdi has been appointed Ambassador of Dutch Design Week 2019 Dutch Design Week is still a long way off, yet behind the scenes the preparations for the 18th edition of the festival, which will take place in October, are already in full swing. What can...
Every day, we plan for the future – future meetings, future holidays, and future innovations. Advancements in technology continue to be unhindered as the dreams of many are turned into reality. Many innovations have been of great benefit to society, improving transportation infrastructure, communications, and...
Mutating Systems, Bodies and Perspectives If you keep looking long enough, you can see how everything changes. Animal species, plants, bacteria, mountain ranges, continents, solar systems—nothings retains its shape forever. Living and non-living things respond to each other in an endless, complex inter- action that scientists...
With over 2600 participating designers, Dutch Design Week in Eindhoven is the largest design festival in Northern Europe. Every year, Dutch Design Daily, Innovation Origins and Katja Lucas, programme manager DDW, pick nine designers who they consider this year’s Hidden Gems: upcoming designers and inspiring projects...
Human sweat is very often perceived as dirty, degrading, to avoid. Why this stigma? As other human 'materials' such as urine, sweat is a waste product of the human body, which gives rise to a judgement of negative value. There are indeed ways to control it,...
Every day we flush away 1.4 litres of our own urine with 33 litres of clean drinking water. We are using a lot of energy to throw away our bodily waste. But what if we could make this resource useful again? Anthroponix is a transdisciplinary research...
Our Dutch Design Week exhibition of 2018 is one for the books. Who would have thought that with less then a year to refurbish our new location we would be able to host such a compelling exposition? Together with the talents from the Talent Pressure Cooker,...
Friday the 19th of October 2018 we held the Grand Opening of our BioArt Village, BioArt Laboratories' new location since 2017. BioArt Village is a historical site unique to the city of Eindhoven. The formal name of the site is 'Duitse Woningen', or German Houses, a beautifully located military...