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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New Moon Poetry and Tea

[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=""] New Moon Poetry and Tea explores how poetic and ritual practices can function as forms of collective knowledge production, where language, objects, and sensory experience come together to create a space for reflection. At its core lies the...

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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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Vessels of Remembrance

[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=""]Soonhwa Kang’s Vessels of Remembrance originates from Korean and Japanese commemorative traditions. Rooted in East Asian ancestral practices, the work reflects a worldview in which memory, ritual, and care are central to how we relate to one another...

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Cubcho

[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=""]Creativity begins at a young age. Cubcho by Viktoriya Gotseva invites children to transform used paper into sustainable building blocks. As an alternative to short-lived plastic toys, this hands-on tool enables children to create their own materials using...

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Dear Stranger

[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 Dutch Design Week 2025 at BioArt Laboratories, visitors encounter an intriguing installation along one of the main corridors leading into the exhibition. Resembling a fragment from an old household, an antique table with a vintage typewriter...

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Soil Recipe

[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=""]With the experience Soil Recipe by Heather Seo, people can transforms discarded organic waste into fertile soil, turning what is typically thrown away into a foundation for new life while reducing the demand for new raw materials. It...

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Not Just an Egg

[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=""]Not Just an Egg is an interactive chicken cart installation by Warden Willems that invites curious visitors to taste, feel, and explore the difference between free-range and industrial eggs. By combining sensory experience with critical reflection, the project...

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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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