New open call! We’re joining forces with Wahu to transform the waste collection system in Indonesia. Are you a Dutch or Indonesian designer eager to create positive change through rethinking the existing waste system? This is your chance to make an impact. Indonesia’s waste...
At the end of last year, we invited organisations to apply for What if Lab: Sustainable Society in collaboration with Erasmus Huis Jakarta. Now, we are partnering with Wahu to address one of the most pressing environmental issues in Southeast Asia: plastic waste. About...
We’ve been working on something in secret (or rather: we haven’t shared it online): What if Lab: Marking Eindhoven Design District! Eindhoven Design District (EDD) has produced a distinctive marker to highlight and connect design hotspots in the city like the Trudo Tower and...
What happens to wind turbines when they reach the end of their technical lifespan? Vattenfall asked this question to the four participating design studios in What if Lab: Upcycled Turbines. Studio Carbon, Superuse Studios, cepezed and Interactivist came up with surprising solutions, from art...
New open call! This time, we’re not looking for designers, but for a collaborative partner. Is your organisation actively working towards making Indonesia greener, healthier, fairer, more sustainable, and/or future-proof? Do you have a challenge or complex problem that requires fresh creative perspectives? If...
What if Lab is well represented at Dutch Design Week 2024 (DDW24) this year, with no less than four different exhibitions at Strijp-S. In Klokgebouw, you’ll find Kampung Kollektief with Erasmus Huis Jakarta from the Lab: Sustainable Public Spaces. Also featured there is Sweco,...
During Dutch Design Week 2024, we show the preliminary results of What if Lab: Caring Neighbourhoods with industry association ActiZ and design studio morgenmakers on the Ketelhuisplein. What if … there are caring communities, living together reciprocally? What does this then mean for the...
In What if Lab: Equal Opportunities (2021), ABN AMRO partnered with social design studio (ink). to find a solution for financial equality between men and women. Target group research showed that although full paternity leave was available, it was barely taken due to stigma....
During Dutch Design Week 2024, we will display the Embassy Lab Green for Gasoline on the Ketelhuisplein, created in the Embassy of Mobility. For a long time, cars were a central focus point in urban planning. In Dutch cities, cars take up about half...
In What if Lab Totally Local (2022), Floris Schoonderbeek developed CircleFarm under the guidance of Sweco. Starting from the design question “What if… our cities were completely full-sufficient?”, Schoonderbeek set to work on the theme ‘Food’. CircleFarming combines landscape design with innovative farming methods,...
In What if Lab: The giving city, three design studios went to work with Sweco to design for the regenerative city of tomorrow. If we want a sustainable and social future for cities, we need to rethink how we organise, build and inhabit urban...
During Dutch Design Week 2024 we will show the Embassy Lab Jonge Aanwas, emerged in the Embassy of Safety, on the Ketelhuisplein. In this lab, Greenberry and the Actiecentrum Veiligheid en Zorg Amsterdam (AcVZ) developed a method to prevent gun incidents among young people...
During Dutch Design Week 2024 (DDW24) in Eindhoven, the Dutch Design Foundation presents Designing Society, an exhibition spanning over 600m², inviting visitors to explore new perspectives on possible futures. Through a variety of themes, you’ll discover how, as a society, we can deploy the...
On May 31, the kick-off of What if Lab: The city that gives back took place. Sweco, together with the selected designers, tackled the question: How can we reduce the negative impact of urbanisation and make cities actively contribute to a healthy and sustainable...
The kick-off of What if Lab: Caring Neighbourhoods took place on Wednesday 29 May. The selected design studio morgenmakers will spend the next two years working with three care organisations, Archipel Zorggroep, Coloriet, and Curamare, on the central design question: ‘What if… there were...
In What if Lab: Rethinking Shared Space, designers, in collaboration with Sweco, made new choices for barn areas. Areas where industry opposes housing, mobility opposes liveability or nature opposes agriculture. Space & Matter, Starling Associates and cocosmos each developed future-proof, integral and adaptive solutions...
We’re launching our fourth lab with Sweco, Europe’s largest architectural and engineering firm. This lab focuses on the regenerative city. More and more people are moving to cities. Currently, 55 per cent of the world’s population lives in urban areas. By 2050, this is...
The design phase of What if Lab Upcycled Turbines is complete! Over the past few months, the four design studios dove into the world of wind turbines. They analysed the characteristics of various components and had discussions with thought leaders, industry experts, researchers, and...
We are launching a new lab in collaboration with ActiZ! ActiZ is the branch association of around 400 healthcare organisations that care and nurse over 2 million vulnerable elderly and chronically ill people. The challenges associated with ageing cannot be solved with care alone. ActiZ is convinced...
The What if Lab Sustainable public spaces exhibition is now on display at Erasmus Huis in Jakarta. After months of doing research, engaging in neighbourhood conversations, and organising workshops, the designers have finalised the concept and translated it into an exhibition. But what exactly...
Eindhoven is the design capital of the Netherlands, but this is not (yet) sufficiently visible to everyone. In October, during Dutch Design Week, you see design everywhere in the city. But where in the public space do you see it the rest of the...
