This Thursday, we’ll dive into the heart of Eindhoven’s identity: who truly shapes the city, and what drives its evolution? Guiding this provocative exploration is none other than Piet Hein Eek, whose iconic designs embody the marriage of vision and craft. Welcome to...

What if play wasn’t just a pastime, but a catalyst for creativity, connection, and innovation? Meet Anne Veenstra (Coded Club) and Yama Saraj (Yamza)! This Thursday gathering celebrates the Power of Play, exploring how gamification, design, and technology shape...

Welcome to this week’s Eindhoven Innovation Café – Tech and Design event! Join us for an evening of inspiration, drinks, and networking, featuring Anne van Strien – Sparking Natural and Regenerative Leadership and Maarten van Schijndel – Innovating...

Welcome to this week's Eindhoven Innovation Café – Tech and Design event! Join us to get inspired by the inclusive perspective of Simon Dogger & Nephtaly Aniceta and how they team up combining technology and design. What inclusive experiences for individuals with...

Let’s create multi-functional infrastructure simultaneously with the expansion of Eindhoven. Such as roads that are servicing their environment, by becoming climate adaptive or even regenerative ecosystems. Meet Fien Dekker (Rain(a)Way) and Stan Kerkhofs (RWS, Low...

Untold numbers of technical and design solutions have been created to fuel the Art of Meeting. But how do we get people together for real? At a level that creates meaningful connections rather than haphazard gatherings? Meet breakthrough facilitator Ferdy Gilsing...

How does Silphium Perfoliatum (Silphy) empower both bees and building materials? And Flax? How can their untapped potential revolutionize sustainable industries? Welcome to this Thursdays Eindhoven Innovation Café, featuring Simone van Es (Roots Foundation) and Linde...

How can technology and design empower your sensory experience to unlock creativity and well-being? Welcome to this Thursdays Eindhoven Innovation Café, featuring Dzera Kaytati (Maaind) and Zheyuan Zhang (Studio Inneract), both creating personalized, immersive...

Welcome to the Eindhoven Innovation Café. Join us to discuss the future vision of our city over drinks and networking, featuring 'Love your problem, not your solution' professor Walter Baets (Wicked Problems Officer at Eindhoven Engine), Ankita Durani and Joseph Zekry...

Welcome to this Thursdays Eindhoven Innovation Café – Tech and Design event! Join us for inspiration, drinks, and networking, featuring Beatrix Bos, Impact Creator of Eindhoven startup Carbyon and the designers they work with: Joshua Holetz, Lotte Wigman & Joram...

Special edition: a personal tour by Annemoon Geurts, founder of Kazerne and curator of the exhibition Human = Non-Humanre. Welcome to the EHV Innovation Café, a unique weekly event designed to connect, inspire, and empower innovators, entrepreneurs, and visionaries in...

Welcome to this Thursdays Eindhoven Innovation Café – Tech and Design event! Join us for inspiration, drinks, and networking, featuring TU/e Team Casa (Energy Transition within the Built Environment) and Nieuw Zwanenburg (Growing Bio-Based Materials for...

Are you ready to be part of a revolutionary networking experience? Welcome to the Eindhoven Innovation Café – Tech and Design event! Join us for an evening of inspiration, drinks, and networking, featuring Cocosmos (experts in co-creation & participation...

Welcome to the Eindhoven Innovation Café. Join us to discuss the future vision of our city over drinks and networking, featuring Urban Developer Hans van Rossum (Realconomy) and Designers Kiki&Joost. We are also excited to announce that Eindhoven start-up and 2024...

Giant pouched rats are currently being trained by the non-profit company APOPO to find victims of disasters like earthquakes. However, when a rat has found a victim there is still no way to know what the position of the victim is. Utilizing previous work on...

Due to climate change, Dutch summers are getting hotter. Ironically, this is leading to increased greenhouse gas emissions because a growing number of households install artificial cooling. While cooling is not the only or even most effective way of staying...

Humanity altered 70% of earth’s land and exploited every part of the ecosystem, but what is giving back to this ecosystem? We are wasting so many valuable resources because humans are just too good to be a material. Nature does not waste anything, only humans do. Is...

Smart stickers that change colour in response to temperature can serve as visual indicators. Useeble is developing the technology that enables the monitoring of temperature exposure. The applications of this technology range from healthcare processes such as...

Construction with earth-based materials – an age-old tradition which was neglected until recently – is experiencing revival across the globe. The use of earth-based materials reduces more environmental impact than most other conventional building materials. In this...

What is the connection between creativity and technology? What makes light such an attractive design medium?  That is what Team IGNITE is exploring. Team IGNITE is the first student team to focus on art and technology and through their light...

Water is the base of nearly everything in live: our health, nature, farming, and recreation. The availability of enough clean water looks to be obvious but isn’t anymore. Climate change in the Netherlands leads to droughts and floods. As citizens we can contribute...

As a renowned Dutch Designer, Studio Tijs Guilty is now setting up a design brand in North Carolina. Questions raised for this: How do we decide what Dutch Design is? And how does it fit within the local challenges the city of High Point faces? Tijs Gilde‘s...

Building Dialogue opens a playful space for participatory discussions and the exchange of different perspectives on contemporary ecological and social challenges.  The game emphasises the importance of collective reimagining and reshaping the future during...

Testing over 40000 biological specimen has proven the Superformula to be a superior model for the natural sciences. The shapes described by this Superformula, a.k.a. Gielis Transformations, are found everywhere: in nature from the very small to the very...

The rapid development of the COVID-19 mRNA vaccines has demonstrated the tremendous potential of nucleic acid therapeutics. In this talk, Roy van der Meel will highlight how nanotechnology is enabling next generation RNA therapeutics for therapeutic gene...

3D printing is a set of techniques that have so far revolutionized the manufacturing of unique or small series of objects, and the fast link between computer design and physical object have aided prototyping work in many industries. But what if we told you that the...

Sodalime makes high tech materials to create unique and mesmerizing art objects. What possibilities does Dichroic glass offer? And how do you position a business like this?  At the end of 2021, Ruud Groeneveld en Carissa ten Tije founded...

Not all solar models are made equal: low carbon content, circularity, elimination of PFAS and absence of forced labor supply chains are key to a sustainable solar module. Solarge has developed solar modules that fulfill all of the above. On top of that, they...

After a little winter break EHV Innovation Café is all refreshed and ready for 2023. Join us for a drink to welcome the new year! During this edition, we would like to start off by looking forward to new possibilities, to a new season of inspiring talks,...

After two years of a global pandemic, lockdowns, flexibility and resilience we are getting back into our routine. During covid, businesses often asked: what will happen after Covid? It was very difficult to say. And now, did things really change? Claudia...

Growing up with a chronic disease can be hard. Having to deal with complicated day to day logistics and being distinctly different from healthy peers is a reality for children and young adults diagnosed with a chronic disease. Peer understanding and awareness of what...

Museums are non-profit organizations with the aim of educating, engaging and sharing knowledge to the community. However, sometimes it isn’t easy to understand the message they are trying to share. Does everyone understand the underlying message? From the outside,...

In what ways can music, science and technology come together? Tonight we explore these themes from a personal point of view. Steven Henry delves into the route he took until were he is now in his professional life. The presentation will be supplemented with short...

Luxury provokes emotions – ranging from jealousy to desire – it manifests itself in ostantative expressions of status while it is taboo for others. Are you interested in exploring innovation, luxury, and impact. Luxury can play a powerful role not only in fashion but...

The urgency of plastic as an environmental problem is clear, but at the same time we can hardly imagine a world without plastic. See the applications in the medical field, in the field of electricity, in cars and planes and in household appliances. So we have to start...

Big data and AI create inequalities. It puts historically marginalized people, like ethnic minorities, and womxn, at a disadvantage. Because AI and checking on AI require plenty of data, usually only giant corporations, the wealthiest governments, and university...

Prototyping 2040 is a vision of four prototypes for western civilisation in 2040. To create the prototypes, the FutureS Thinking team critically analysed thousands of signals of change. The prototypes revolve around issues of social, economic and environmental...

Imagine a world of fluid fashion: what does it take to keep clothes purely digital? When should we connect the digital to the physical production and what are the challenges? Flora Miranda is an artist and fashion designer based in Antwerp and Vienna. After graduating...

Heat is a basic need. What we currently largely obtain from gas, is already available in the form of industrial residual heat from industry, data centres and horticulture. Cellcius Heat Battery Technology makes the utilisation of this waste heat possible. With this...

Beauty, and how it is experienced is a radical act of self-care and brings people together, both physically and digitally. Superficiality is a creative outlet and tool that is important to the design process. How can we explore our identities by using cosmetic data?...

More than 20% of the population loses one hour of sleep because of the blue wavelength, which deregulates our biological system. The aim of Time as Light is to reconnect humans with their natural element: the sunset. And to create an empathetic relationship with our...

How can we use the dynamics created at the coating surfaces for robotic applications? Danqing Liu and her research team propose the use of liquid crystal polymer networks for soft robotics where the various molecular accessories are assembled in the two dimensions of...

The land we live on, with its specific natural resources and habitat and the connections we’ve built with it throughout generations broadly define our identity and sense of belonging. Project Home(land) uses authentic Ukrainain crafts, knowledge of our grandmother on...

How do we experience changes in the digital era and how do these changes influence our perspective and the way we experience the world culturally? In the talk, Guy Bar-Sinai will take you through his personal experience and the thought process that gave birth to his...

In order to think about what life is like at old age, What if Lab commissioned Studio Anne Ligtenberg to create a card game in collaboration with Actiz, wherein participants can put themselves in the shoes of an eldery person. The goal of the game is to start an open...

Grief is universal, yet the way we process it is far from that. The well documented behavioral patterns of loss can dramatically differ between individuals. Can we extract symbolic objects and actions, from personal stories of loss, in order to support those who...

Dynaxion is developing a new generation scanning system for non-invasive and fully automated substance identification for security purposes. The device accurately scans parcels and suitcases for drugs, explosives and other dangerous and illicit goods. Cor Datema is...

Good Neighbours is an award-winning immersive storytelling project about neighbourhood surveillance weaving together performance, technology and placemaking. It explores how communities create spaces of belonging and alienation through mobile platforms like WhatsApp...

Robots are increasingly being used to teach children to count or to learn a (second) language. However, the introduction of robots in education poses new (moral) challenges. How do we deal with privacy, children who see robots as friends and secrets they tell the...

What if the quality of life were central to designing mobility? If it were to make a positive contribution to the environment? Or if the aim was to prevent transport movements? It is time to correct the design error of the last century, in which the car was central to...

The most common renewable energy sources, solar and wind electricity, are intermittent. The storage of energy in batteries, is therefore an essential link in localizing and democratizing access to electricity. To reach the deployment level necessary for the Paris...

With a brief historical reflection, Hans Robertus will offer insight into the steps taken in the maturing process of the design field. His presentation focuses on the growth opportunities ahead of us, with an emphasis on possibilities to increase the impact of design...

Mentech uses the technology HUME to improve the quality of life of vulnerable people. The HUME is used in intramural care to provide an early warning when clients with a severe intellectual disability or late-stage dementia have a buildup of stress. The company...

Arabidopsis Symphony, a project developed by Fillip Studios, tells the story of a small plant; the Arabidopsis Thaliana. Open to new influences, it is in every life cycle being confronted with new obstructions and challenges. But still it connects to these new...

To create more involvement in the making process, Eva Jagerman transformed the automatic knitting machine into a human-driven device. By enlarging the working elements, the technique that is usually hidden becomes visible. Teamwork is required to let the wooden...

STRP festival 2022 edition marked the beginning of a new era for STRP, exploring the relationship between art, technology, and major societal issues with a broad programme, moving between various locations of Eindhoven. In this way, the festival invites a broader...

This Thursday, the Kazerne Design Award 2022 took place. Unfortunately, this was only for a selected audience live, but the event was available via Youtube. Missed this edition? Don’t worry, we’ve got your back. Rewatch the edition here:...

By empowering people who are blind or visually impaired to achieve more, Hable is working towards a world in which everybody has access to the same information. Every person that is blind should have the ability to grasp the same benefits of the smartphone as anyone...

Did you know pirates used to extend their ability to sail by having a parrot that could sense when a storm was coming? What if we can create modern day parrots for modern day pirates? By doing research on human augmentation, Team HART tries to improve existing senses...

The legal system is a human design that also designs and acts on us: the legal codes become internalised and absorbed by the collective body. With an academic background in both law and design, Viktória Kaslik explores how meaning can be made through artistic...

In a design landscape where we have been moving away from focus on the product toward more holistic approaches and experiences, connectedness is omnipresent. Human experiences are not stand-alone events, nor are humans stand-alone entities. If the purpose of design is...

How can a home contribute to the regeneration of the water system? Most homes extract high-quality drinking water for low-value applications such as flushing toilets, and discharge used water (with all kinds of important nutrients) to the sea as quickly as possible....

The future of Social label lies in ‘being’, and in surrounding ourselves with design with meaning. With this positive activism, initiators Petra Janssen (Studio Boot) and Simone Kramer (C-mone) are forging a growing inclusive movement with a socially sustainable...

BIOTRIP is an entrepreneurial engine working to create efficiency, rigor and scale to empower leading scientists in immunotherapy drug development. This privately held company is supported by an experienced team of industry experts and international investigators to...

Lusoco is an innovative Dutch deep-tech start-up that is developing a platform technology using highly fluorescent inks, solar cells, energy management and smart electronics. This will eventually be used for a wide variety of applications, like off-grid and energy...

Una Paloma Blanca teaches languages the fun, fast and efficient way with innovative and creative methods to engage and help students to improve their language skills as quickly and effectively as possible. In this workshop, we will run through the projects of Una...

Dutch Design Awards looks at how design relates to Dutch society in the broadest sense of the word: economically, socially, culturally and in terms of content. Large and small issues in and outside the Netherlands call for a new, relevant design approach and give rise...

Together with our guest Mary-Ann Schreurs, we will explore what Dutch Design is and the role it has in Eindhoven, as well as what Dutch Design Week and Dutch Design Foundation mean for it. The running theme for the night will be: Dutch Design. Back to the future!...

The fashion industry is under scrutiny for exploiting people and resources. LABELEDBY. is convinced that technological innovation can contribute significantly to address these abuses. It can replace arrows labour with automation, reduce waste with smaller-scale,...

There is no blueprint to redesign our natural cultural world in a more humane and sustainable way. And because of the entanglement of all people, animals, plants and objects, the task is extremely complex. We know we need a radical change, but how? Between No-Longer...

Rob Adams, curator of the Embassy of Mobility presents the trend research commissioned by this embassy in 2020. The research tells about the global influence of Corona on mobility. Adams will also elaborate on how they translated the report to the Embassy Labs (design...

Atelier Scheldeman focuses on the practice-oriented sculptural architecture where design and implementation mold together. In contrary to the conventional architectural proces, design and construction are brought together to a collaborative process on the building...

The Earth is facing the biggest problem in centuries: climate change. To understand it we need to obtain information in places where the consequences of global warming can be observed first-hand. These places are found in extremely cold, harsh environments like...

Join us for a drink to welcome the new year! Missed this edition? Don't worry, we've got your back. Rewatch the edition here: https://youtu.be/geLOJLTbj3w

The Embassy of Inclusive Society is primarily a plea for a more diverse and inclusive design field. A plea for a greater number of designers with diverse and inclusive backgrounds. Where the outcome is an open society that strives for the participation of all, a...

AI is becoming increasingly democratized. Previously inaccessible to all but large tech-oriented companies, new AI tools and frameworks enable even non-experts to build AI innovations for their company. But the variety of possibilities can be very confusing. In this...

In our modern society we seem to have lost the connection with our breath. The most basic human biological function is being under and mis-used. During this talk, we discussed how and why design should play a role in the re-discovery of the breath as a valuable...

Rens Brankaert is Assistant Professor of Active and Healthy Ageing with a specific interest in dementia in the systemic change group at Industrial Design. He set up and leads the Eindhoven University of Technology (TU/e) expertise center for Dementia & Technology....

Design to Market is an accelerator for graduated design talent (BA and MA), offered by the province of Noord-Brabant, six design institutions (see logos) and several companies In Brabant. With ASML as front runner, an accelerator program has been set up to generate...

Student team CORE focuses on researching and enabling the recycling of hard-to-process waste streams like e-waste and contaminated soil In 2016 alone, 44.7 million metric tonnes of e-waste were generated, which is the equivalent of 4500 Eifel towers. This is expected...

Perspectives for AI: A Biased and Incomplete View Industry and academia should work together to shape what AI will become, maximizing benefits while paying attention to privacy and fairness. Cassio de Campos gave an open view of current AI and describe some ideas on...

Cooloo’s goal is to develop sustainable, aesthetic and ecological solutions. Solutions that are flexible in application, and create high-end design products suitable to last within the circular economy. Our 40+ years of experience in the furniture industry has shown...

Carbon is a vital component of every life form on our planet. It is currently emitted as a “waste” product in the form of CO2 and is one of our principle climate change agents. By harvesting the free carbon reserve that is present in air, a material abundance for...

This Thursday, the Kazerne Design Award 2021 took place. Unfortunately, this was only for a selected audience live, but the event was available via Youtube. Missed this event? Rewatch it here: https://youtu.be/yt0U_LorTTs  

Local food production can make a city more resilient and create spaces for social interaction throughout all sorts of backgrounds and cultures resulting in a stronger sense of community. Jonas Gorgënand Bram de Vos want to showcase a variety of proposals on how...

Studio Birthplace dedicates itself to tell the pressing stories of our time, to create awareness and inspire change. Animals, humans and nature are struggling to survive all over the world as we experience a critical climate emergency, massive inequity and a sixth...

CASA 1.0 is a comfortable, affordable and sustainable alternative for Dutch social housing. It was developed by Team CASA, a student team of the Eindhoven University of Technology, together with many partners and sponsors. The goal: integrating new and existing...

Meet Goldilocks®. Vertoro aims to speed up the green revolution by offering a bio-based alternative to fossil resources. Their green gold is bold and will prove invaluable to the future of the planet. Ultimately, it can replace fossil crude oil as a platform product...

The EAISI Mobility Lab is a joint program of NXP and TU/e and is also an ICAI Lab. ICAI is a Dutch network aimed at technology and talent development between knowledge institutes, industry, and government in the area of artificial intelligence.It aims to advance...

Maurangelo Petruzzella presented a fresh overview on the upcoming spectral revolution: how miniaturized spectral sensors will change the way we will ‘see’ the world around us. MantiSpectra is developing a chip-based Near-Infrared (NIR) spectral sensor. Optical...

Premature birth is a major problem, affecting more than 1 in 10 babies globally. Currently, infants born between 28 and 37 weeks are housed within neonatal intensive care units (NICUs), supporting their cardiorespiratory function and development to full term. This...

Inflammatory Bowel Disease (IBD) is a chronic inflammatory disorder of the intestine. About 2 million Europeans suffer from IBD with thousands of new cases every year. Diagnosis of IBD goes via different medical procedures; biochemical, radiologic, histologic and...

Our world is getting more digital. And everywhere around us we can find art and technology getting closer to each other or even merging. Just like Augmented Reality options in public space as art. How can art be manifested in future public space? How will art evolve?...

SOLID is a yearly changing, multidisciplinary team of students from Eindhoven University of Technology. Founded in 2016, the team has grown expeditiously into a large and ambitious organization. They aim to further develop our skills, iron fuel technology and the...

Within the world of lighting, not many designers experiment in such a progressive and idiosyncratic way as VANTOT does. From LED to solar cells, Esther Jongsma and Sam van Gurp have developed into true light specialists within their studio, VANTOT. Originally creating...

How do we create resilient restaurants? How do we create accessible technologies and resilient value chains that support a thriving restaurant industry, especially for small business owners? Covid-19 has hit the hospitality industry hard and consumer demands have...

How do you become a molecular LEGO-master? Patricia Dankers discussed designing a synthetic extracellular matric with the help of molecular LEGO blocks. Countless molecular interactions in our body, our tissues, in and outside of our cells define the functions of our...

Simon Dogger is a designer with a whole new point of view. He graduated the Design Academy Eindhoven as a blind designer, with an ability to listen and feel, and a strong drive to regain his independence. Not seeing himself as handicapped, but as someone who takes in...

Do you know the blind world has its way of seeing, dreaming, colouring and picturing? Do you know what beauty looks like if you can’t see? Do you know design can be more inclusive if we can see what the visually impaired feel? Our perception limits us. Designer Boey...

In the year 2021, we can no longer afford to feign that technology is neutral. The difference between ‘real’ and ‘not real’ becomes increasingly muddled in these times of deepfake videos and post-truth politics. Algorithms facilitate a web of lies, with direct...