Right after the official opening of the Dutch Design Week 2022 at BioArt laboratories, the event “Life to Come – The importance of death in nature” kicked off. Interesting lectures were given by Jeroen Helmer, ARK Nature illustrator, and Elke Wenting who is a PhD candidate at Wageningen University with her Scavenging Project. The evening was moderated by Rachel Refael, the owner of 166 BRUT. Lastly, Juriaan van Berkel and Noelle Ingeveldt from studio Berkveldt presented their project “Dead and Alive”, an artistic research project that was displayed during the DDW.