Dutch Design Week

🐙 These Soft Companions are responsive, creature-like textile objects that respond to touch and their surroundings, stimulating our senses and providing comfort against loneliness.

Combining naturally dyed knitwear, sensors, and pneumatic robotics, kaͣtͭrͬiͥjn - Textile & Interaction designer creates beings that breathe, purr, emit warmth, and seek sunlight, nurting moments of mutual care through touch, grooming, and shared presence.
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📸 All material provided by the designer.

Video 2: Videographt Celine Caly
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Dutch Design Week 2026
🗓️ 17-25 October 2026
📍 Eindhoven

Pressed, bent, and deformed. 🗜️ Tim Teven Studio reveals raw material character through mechanical force and technical control. Using self-developed production methods, the studio steers industrial metal past its standard limits.

Find selected works of the studio at Building TT throughout .

📸 1,5. Ronald Smits Photography 2,3. .van.der.wielen 4. MH Photography.

🧫 Micro-algae encapsulated in small gel pearls drive JiTiBa’s modular water-treatment system.

Their Algaefyer MK.2 is engineered to strip contaminants from sewage sludge while reclaiming valuable raw materials.

Bridging biology, environmental engineering, and industrial design, the startup pulls their laboratory research out of academia and onto practical applications. Equipped with modular maintenance bays and precision flow controls, the system is built to prove that bio-filtration can scale.

🧫💧 Discover JiTiBa at Klokgebouw during .

🫥📡 Simon Weckert’s Digital Camouflage uses textile patterns to trick AI surveillance cameras monitoring public space.

The garment’s hypnotic patterns cause tracking algorithms to misread human figures, rendering the wearer invisible to the machine.

Rather than promising total anonymity or evasion, Digital Camouflage acts as a wearable protest against the non-consensual automated processing of our bodies in the city.

Discover the work during at Sectie-C .
📸 © Simon Weckert

*The Demonstrations use a generic open-source object-detection system. The work makes no claim about any specific government system, which is precisely the point, as closed surveillance networks remain impossible for the public to test.
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Dutch Design Week 2026
🗓️ 17-25 October 2026
📍 Eindhoven

🏗️💛 Eight large, immersive installations take over Eindhoven for , transforming public space to encourage new perspectives on urgent social issues.

These grand projects in public space will be spread across the city centre and Strijp-S for .

DDW is collaborating with Bureau Binnenstad Eindhoven to bring this project to life.

⏸️🟡 luca ortmann reframes waiting from an everyday inconvenience into a comfortable, deliberate pause in the city, inviting us to hang out using vivid structures of yellow industrial steel.

📸 Lili Cirksena

🌬️ Isabel + Helen present a wind-powered interactive installation. Visitors can shift the wheeled windmills, creating an ever-changing field of swirling colors and patters overhead.

📸 Model by the studio.

🚔🕸️ Through a three-dimensional web of cameras, screens, and voices, Fairspace × × Sagitta Creatives trace systemic bias and the politics of urban surveillance.

📣🔷 Unfolding into stages, kiosks, and tribunes, 𝙆𝙤𝙡𝙡𝙚𝙠𝙩𝙞𝙫 𝙋𝙡𝙪𝙨 𝙓 ’s blue urban furniture demonstrates how modular, temporary architecture can transform the use of public space.

🩺 Resembling an intestine from the outside, Atelier Van Lieshout’s walk-in Colonic Cleansing Clinic questions how preventative care and bodily recovery can be woven directly into daily life.

🛝 Through colour, tactile materials, and sensory elements, Studio Kars en Boom × RAUM craft a mobile play area where children of all abilities can explore side by side.

🎹🎋 Antoon Versteegde and Bart van Dongen deconstruct an electric piano across a monumental bamboo framework, suspending individual musical notes in space so visitors can walk directly inside the instrument’s resonance.

🥚🦅 Already towering over the Markt ahead of , Atelier Van Lieshout ’s seven-metre golden bird sits atop a monumental egg—inviting visitors inside to unburden their minds once the festival opens.

The internationally renowned artist and designer will have two works for DDW26, questioning the current healthcare system and the future of wellbeing.

🗜️🌾 Using only reed and wood, Natasja van der Meer crafts plant-based, fully compostable furniture held together purely through traditional joinery—no glue, no screws.

The materials tell an ecological story: the reed is harvested in the Naardermeer—a protected wetland mowed annually to protect bird and insect habitats—alongside one of the Netherlands’ last professional reed cutters. The structural wood is salvaged from local fallen trees. Natural material logic dictates the form.

Discover the work at De Fabriek as part of WOW NATURE by Crafts Council Nederland during . . .
Dutch Design Week 2026
🗓️ 17-25 October 2026
📍 Eindhoven

Beacon DDW26: Anab Jain, co-founder of SUPERFLUX, is a pioneer in speculative design and emerging technologies.

As one of the two Beacons of Dutch Design Week 2026, she draws on nearly two decades of work to investigate how design can anticipate and prepare for alternative futures and make them tangible—shifting what we are willing to do in the present.

Miriam van der Lubbe, Creative Head of DDW, highlights why her perspectives and long-standing impact are vital right now:

“Anab Jain proves that imagination doesn’t just inspire; it gives us clear direction. She translates visionary ideas into tangible futures, inviting us not just to reflect, but to actively shape what comes next, together.”

Beacons of DDW are pioneers invited to share their expertise, critical questions, and vision with colleagues and visitors alike. During the festival, Anab will deliver a keynote lecture exploring speculative futures.

Discover more about her work and explore the programme via the link in bio / ddw.nl.

📷 Anab Jain by Jamie Salmons
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Dutch Design Week 2026
📍 Eindhoven

🗓️ 17-25 October 2026

DesignFutures Beacons

Emma van der Leest is a pioneer in biodesign. As one of the two Beacons of Dutch Design Week 2026, she will spotlight how biodesign has matured into a viable industry with enormous potential for change.

Miriam van der Lubbe, Creative Head of DDW, highlights why her perspectives and long-standing impact are vital right now:

“For years, Emma van der Leest has demonstrated that biodesign isn’t a pipe dream-it is becoming a tangible reality. She is a true frontrunner, exploring living materials while showing us what is already possible.”

During the festival, Emma will host a dedicated presentation on the future of biodesign.

Discover more about her work and explore the programme via DDW.nl

📸 1. Emma van der Leest by Sarah Tulej.
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📍 Eindhoven

🗓️ 17-25 October 2026

Beacons Eindhoven