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Maartje Dijkstra – Braindrain, TranSwarm Entities, Surface Distortion, Optic Traces
Fashion designer Maartje Dijkstra will show 4 of her latest, all manual 3D printed, fashion/technology pieces during the DDW: Braindrain(2016), Surface [...]
Workshop building a LED-tiara for kids with a helpful parent
Altijd al een kroon van licht willen hebben? of een regenboog op je hoofd dragen? Met deze LED-tiara op batterijen is dat mogelijk. Zet er eentje in elkaar [...]
Run Away? VR/AR
<<Run Away?>>of <<Get Out>> tells the story about escaping. About having to loose everything that is dear to you. The words are [...]
Sensoree – AWElectric
Inspired by the phrase, That gave me goosebumps. Did you feel it too? The AWElectric is a duet design that animates the emotionally charged goosebumps, [...]
Manifestations needs Volunteers!
Would you like to be part of the team that offers visitors a life changing experience, assist artists to show their work, then join us as volunteer! [...]
Participate?
Do you want to participate in Manifestations 2017? The largest Innovative Art, Tech and Fun event of the DDW? 4500m2 at VEEM building on A location. At [...]
Newest Project of Freerk Wieringa, Hackerspace Nijmegen, Sandwoman, Manifestations.. being made as we speak!
After his very successful contribution at the last edition of Manifestations – an exoskelet which visitors could wear to control a 3m high robot – Freerk [...]
Sensoree – AWE Goosebumps
In a dialog of art and science, SENSOREE therapeutic biomedia  animates the feeling of awe. Awe is the subtle mix of fear and wonder that gives the chills, [...]
Juul Koene – My name is Ava, I am your personal family doctor
My name is Ava, I am your personal family doctor” Juul Koene created with her project: “My name is Ava, I am your personal family [...]
Juul Koene – ASMR Binaural Wellness (whispers which you feel through your body)
ASMR Binaural Wellness is based on an internet culture called ASMR, Autonomous Sensory Meridian Response. ASMR is an experience characterised by a [...]
Juul Koene, Missy Skae, Merel Raven, Amy Whittle – Conductive Ritual
Nowadays our daily rituals are constantly interrupted by external influences, specifically by our electronic devices. We are almost always [...]
Juul Koene- Smell Therapy
The combination of smell and an act made me dig into a technique where smell can be divided into degrees of strong and weak scent. For this technique I [...]
PEN – Smoker, I Love You – Family Space Cocoon
Smoker, for you, who is tired of going up and down in the cold or the summer heat waves.. inside this portable cabin, you will finally be able to relieve [...]
Neffa – MycoTEX
Why do we still make clothes which last for 40 years if we only wear them for 1 or 2 years? The initial purpose of MycoTEX was to create a textile out of [...]
Jochem van Schip & Merel Koning – code/coat
an online/offline way to whistleblow When a whistleblower’s identity becomes public, their life as they know it is at risk, to the point of being [...]
Leonardo Selvaggio – URME Surveillance
URME Surveillance is an subversive intervention that protects the public from facial recognition surveillance systems in a variety of ways. The principle [...]
Derek Curry and Jennifer Gradecki – Crowd-Sourced Intelligence Agency
The Crowd-Sourced Intelligence Agency (CSIA) is a creative research project that takes the form of an online application that partially replicates an Open [...]
Ziynet Hidiroglu – Reflections
The three dimensional design, made out of ceramic tiles and coloured mirrors; capturing reflections and positioning itself in an unknown world of randomness.
Channin – Moment == Memory
Nowadays, technology is all around us and provides us with more information than we can process. Consequently, our brain is working overtime and fails to [...]
Satellite expo – Internet of Women Things, Agi Haines – Transfigurations and others…
The human body consists of practicable elements that can be easily manipulated and engineered. Through surgical procedures our bodies can be stretched, [...]
Hyperspace Collective – Virtual Reality Collective Brainport Region
The Hyperspace Collective is a cluster of companies in the Brainport Region who work with Augmented and Virtual Reality technology. [icon [...]
Innovative High Tech: Torque Wind Turbine – The Next Step in Renewable Energy
The new Torque Wind Turbine is the world’s most advanced small wind turbine for the highest output What makes the Torque Wind Turbine so special is that it [...]
Virtual Reality in a Wheelchair..
secret program, will be updated later..
Innovative High Tech Presentations: Virtual Reality Specials
The most innovative developments in Virtual Reality, Augmented Reality and Mixed Reality, including bio-feedback.
Luuk Klawer – Echinozoa
Echinozoa is a form and material research inspired on the growth structure of invertebrate marine animals. The focus is on the group of echinoderms. The [...]
Jip van Leeuwenstein – A Diverse Monoculture
The solution for the yearly problem of the oak processionary (Dutch: eikenprocessierups): robots. On a real branch of an oak tree, including leaves, Jip [...]
Turret (Portal)
Turrets are one of the main obstacles in the Portal games. These stationary robots are deadly accurate and will kill anything on sight with nearly infinite [...]
Event: Young Talent Award 2017
Manifestations selected Best of Graduates 2017: Winners 2017: Channin Scholten and Jochem van Schip & Merel Koning This year Manifestations presents [...]
Katerina Gaidamaka – Post Soviet
Nowadays the East is as another world to explore new aesthetics to toy with as nowhere else can we find such a collision of the West and the East. The [...]
JeSuus – Het Mooiste Lijk Van De Europese Unie
Lalalalalalalalalalalalalalala Blablablablablablablablablabla THE MOST BEAUTIFUL CORPSE OF THE EUROPEAN UNION JESUUS what is jesuus Its an ultimatum Good [...]
Events: Overview
Overzicht Events tijdens Manifestations: 22 Oct 16:30-17:00 hrs. Young Talent Awards with Jonathan Maas (VPRO), Katja Lucas (DDW) and Iskander Smit [...]
Epoch – Decoding meaning
A project by Arthur Boer and Boris Smeenk that explores the field of computer vision in relation to the current visual culture. The duo built a machine, [...]
Zanne and friends – Virtual Intimacy (VR)
Zanne and friends present: Virtual Intimacy VR has never been so close!   VR project exploring peoples need towards technology: sex instead of porn. [...]
Pillo – interactive game pillow
Pillo – the interactive pillow allowing everyone to play videogames, regardless of any cognitive and/or physical challenges. The videogames are [...]
Iiris Sointu – The Supplant
While people work to obtain the illusion of absolute control over their lives through this product, technologically advanced beyond imagination, they are [...]
Iiris Sointu – Raivon Muotokieli/Language of Rage
Language of Rage: I want to bring light to the transformative nature of violent thoughts and emotional chaos, rather than mystifying them. In my depiction [...]
Manus Nijhoff – Experiences of a User
Supposedly the internet is a public space. While it was first seen as a medium which would let information flow freely and thereby make us more free, its [...]
Robots
Manifestations presents: several new robots! Somewhere in a laboratory in The Netherlands, a new species is born … from steel, electronics and the [...]
Dominica Chen – Superpower Studio
Superpower Studio dives into the internet world of ‘pointless superpowers’, and aims to grant internet users the ‘pointless superpowers’ that they come up [...]
Kids program
…but also grown-ups can join in 360 degree experiments, regain control over your device, creative programming, Imagine your Future…
Meet new People
Most of the program is interactive.. so you will Definately meet new People… but is your Neighbour he says he is…?
Will the Future Design Us?
..is the theme of Manifestations. Will We Design the Future or Will the Future Design Us?
VR – Explore New Worlds..
You will see things you’ve never seen before and will never forget..  
DDW prepping for launch
The 2017 edition of Dutch Design Week is about to unleash its creative powers! The all new festival Manifestations is going to be one of the most [...]
Neoptera Transistion Chip in stereoscopic 360 VR
Made for the 48 hour film project, a sci fi cult movie VR http://www.violavirus.nl http://www.zanne.nl In a world run by machines, Mark Wind is the last [...]
Jasna Rok – “Panamarenko coffee couture” & “Futurism”
This digital designed dress has an invisible nanotechnology layer on top of the digitally printed fabrics. This makes the textiles super hydrophobic, which [...]
Sander Veenhof – Patent Alert project (Saturdays)
The next generation of augmented reality wearables will soon be ready to be worn throughout the day. These devices will assist us, guide us through life [...]
Melissa Coleman & Leonie Smelt – Tremor
Tremor is a dress that responds with an involuntary visual shiver every time a woman dies as the result of an unsafe abortion. The dress is inspired by our [...]
Poppy – Virtual Hug
Are you ready for your Virtual Hug? With her satires on your internet behaviour, the music industry and on Hollywood stars, Poppy has a famous YouTube [...]
Aranka Agatha – [Buoy]ancy
What do you wear in a world flooded by water? I imagine that our climate is going to change and that our sea levels are rising, creating a new world. If [...]
The ‘Wat is dit nou weer’ collective presents: Retirement home ‘the machine’.
Until just recently elderly products spend their last days in a dark drawer or selling their bodies for parts. There’s no need for that anymore. From now [...]
Yvette de Wit – Limitless
How can people function better, feel better, and how do people reach their full potential? Yvette created Limitless, a drink based on a micro dose of LSD [...]
Tim Verbakel – The Ultimate Bottle
The Ultimate Bottle Project can be the solution for refugees who have a shortage of essentials during their journey to Europe. This portable bottle uses [...]
Goed Folk – Purple crocodiles do not exist
An illusion becomes reality and reality is increasingly becoming that illusion. The photo book ‘Purple crocodiles do not exist’ dives into a real [...]
Neffa – Dynamic Skin
Use of technology in the fashion industry is, at present, limited predominantly to gadgets and accessories that monitor what the body is doing and allow [...]
Prof. Loe Feijs (TU/e) & Marina Toeters (by-wire.net): Pied de Pulse
Massage jacket: Pied de Pulse: Packing Embroidered Circles and Coil Actuators in Pied de Poule (Houndstooth) by Loe Feijs (TU/e) and Marina Toeters [...]
Jorick de Quaasteniet & Arnout Schaap – MOONMISSION 2030
Our mission in its essence is quite simple; we want to clean up a plastic bag. The fact that this plastic bag is located on the moon makes things more [...]
SPACELIFE – Designed on Earth, Created for Space
SPACELIFE products are developed for the ultra modern human, driven by a curiosity for greater things. SPACELIFE is a Dutch luxury brand that draws its [...]
Myrna Out – xxy-toys
In the social climate which we live in today, ancient stereotypes on men and women are not that common anymore. Not every man is the one who brings the [...]
Paula Pin, Mary Maggic, Rian Hammond – Becoming with Schizophyllum Commune
Xenoestrogen Microdoser: fungal directed evolution device for toxic becomings. Becoming with Schizophyllum Commune is a collaborative project exploring [...]
Dennis Bijleveld – Transformative Identity
This work is a visual fashion representation of how my personal identity is socially and culturally constructed and how the layers of this identity can be [...]
Mary Maggic – Housewives Making Drugs
What if it were possible to synthesize hormones in the kitchen? Imagine if this was as easy and simple as cooking a meal. “Housewives Making Drugs” is a [...]
Cindy Hsin-Liu Kao, MIT Media Lab – Kino: Kinetic, “living” jewelry for dynamic fashion
Exploring a dynamic future in which the accessories we wear are no longer static, but are instead mobile, living objects on the body. Engineered with the [...]
Dorine Boudewijn (Atelier Bydo) & Waterstof Ontwerp – Chameleon skirt
More and more technology slips into our lives. This skirt uses sensors and lighting to act as a Chameleon to disappear in its surroundings. This project is [...]
Robbin Veldman – LEVEL DOWN
Game addiction is a growing problem among young people. As a graphic designer, I feel responsible to do something about it. From my own experience, I know [...]
Emma Walch – IMNOTUGLYBUTMYBEAUTYISATOTALONLINECREATION
Is a visionary installation which shows a proposal about how we can modify our body in the future, it’s about becoming the internet version of you in [...]
Isabel Pfab & Martina Gerosa – Wearable Baby Monitor
Specially for Internet of Women Things developed Wearable Baby Monitor by Isabel Pfab and Martina Gerosa is an undergarment for pregnant women, which [...]
Cindy Hsin-Liu Kao & Artem Dementyev – MIT Media Lab – NailO
Fingernails as an Input Surface NailO is part of Internet of Women Things. Location: Library Eindhoven (video) [icon name=”folder-open” [...]
DuoSkin – Cindy Hsin-Liu Kao, Asta Roseway*, Christian Holz*, Paul Johns*, Andres Calvo, Chris Schmandt. MIT Media Lab in collaboration with Microsoft Research*
DuoSkin is a fabrication process that enables anyone to create customized functional devices that can be attached directly on their skin. Using gold metal [...]
Fay Klaassen – Don’t Forget to Play!
Play is not just fun, it’s healthy too. Continuing to play as an adult can free your mind and reduce mental and physical health issues. Come play with us! [...]
Tega Brain & Sam Lavigne – Smell Dating
Smell Dating is the world’s first smell based dating service. Made in collaboration with Sam Lavigne, it is a participatory project that invites people to [...]
Pinar Yoldas – The Kitty AI Artificial Intelligence for Governance
It is year 2039. An artificial intelligence with the affective capaticies of a kitten becomes the first non-human governor. She leads a politician-free [...]
Veerle Kluijfhout – Domesticat
Domesticat How do we want the future? Human beings have raised and adapted animals to serve to their favour (domestication); animals are being used as [...]
Laetitia Roling – Pookie Goes to Heaven
Pookie died a while ago, but she is alive in our minds. While constantly rotating on her turntable, we keep her animated. We take a look at how pookie took [...]
Baron Lanteigne – MYTHOLOGY IN PROGRESS
Mythology In Progress is an ongoing series of interactive online performances taking place on Facebook. Visitors are presented a virtual environment on [...]
Tim Demper – Multiversescope
Much more exists than we can ever measure or observe. There are phenomena that can’t be measured or observed in our Universe. Such as further away in [...]
Teun Seuren – SHWALBE!
This collection revolves around the idea of ‘hooligans’. I was particularly struck by the brotherhood found in a ‘firm’, and the vulnerability that is [...]
Martijn Kors – Permanent (Hyperspace Collective)
Permanent is an interactive narrative about life in temporary housing after the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear disaster. As a player, you take on the role of a [...]
Studio Sjoucke – A world of VR sketches (Hyperspace Collective)
Studio Sjoucke is engaged in VR, made in a sketch style. In a VR experience you can see how Strijp-S looks like the current plans. And is investigating how [...]
Mind Mansion (Hyperspace Collective)
On Monday till Sunday Mind Mansion presents, in collaboration with Hyperspace Collective, the virtual reality applications Mind Mansion and VR-tigo. With [...]
Erik van der Veen & Vera van de Seyp – Furper
Furper is a bio-engineered caravan of flesh and blood. The warm hairy body makes it the ideal caravan for outdoor holidays in cold winters. Furper is more [...]
DDW Workshop Dutch Rose Media – Design with Augmented Reality maandag & dinsdag van 13.30 tot 14.30
Strijp-S is the place to be during the Dutch Design Week! Every year, this is the place where the newest innovations of design are presented. A new [...]
Workshops: Floris.cc offline – sunday 22 oktober – wednesday 25 oktober – saturday 28 oktober (12.00 – 17.00)
Come and meet us, Floris.cc – electronic thingies. The webshop with open source hardware from Arduino, Adafruit and Pimoroni. Soldering workshops for [...]
Alice Héron – Ersatz Jungle
Ersatz Jungle is an installation that imitates some aspects of plants, balancing between repulsive and attractive repetitive shapes. The large organic [...]
Tyron Winter – The Hashtag as a Protest Template
In this interactive installation people get the oppurtunity to add their own protest messages on a 3D digital icon via ‘traditional’ means such [...]
NEFFA – Atayal Eyes
Quote Atayal tribe: “On the front we have our own eyes, but on the back we cannot see.” With that in mind NEFFA developed this biodegradable cape [...]
Carin: Wearables for women with urine loss
LifeSense is a B2b medtech venture empowering women’s health. Our first product Carin helps mothers combat urine loss after childbirth, menopause and [...]
Marina Toeters – Huggy Care
Huggy Care is an antibacterial dress as inspiration of future care wear that must become more careful-looking. The knit is made out synthetic yarn. [...]
Marina Toeters, Melissa Bonvie & Margreet de Kok – Closed loop smart atheleisure fashion (WEAR sustain)
“Closed loop smart athleisure fashion” continuously measures the womans’ key vital signals in a fashionable manner. The laminated sensors are [...]
Mohamad Zairi Baharom & Marina Toeters – Cliff • the automatized zipper
It is our strong believe that fashion, more specifically apparel can support us so much more in our daily life than it currently does. The invention of [...]
Marina Toeters – ILJA ASSIMILA SS16: Couture with light systems
In collaboration with the ILJA team by-wire.net has developed 5 integrated light systems for the couture collection ASSIMILA SS16. This is shown at Paris [...]
Qi Wang & by-wire.net – Zishi Posture Sensing Garment
Posture monitoring and correction technologies can support prevention and treatment of spinal pain or can help detect and avoid compensatory movements [...]
Debbie Lambrechts – The Fresh Factory
What does the kitchen of the future looks like? Entirely focused on fresh produce. Using a new way of preserving, editing and growing your vegetables. [...]
VR Podia (Hyperspace Collective)
VRPODIA is a softwaretool, developed bij RAYS.nl, to create interactive 3D projections of photos and videos. At DDW17 the installation “awareness of [...]
Stichting SIGN, TU Delft, B11n – iGreen Plant Bag
The iGreen Plant Bag is a bag pack cleaning the air, focused on children. is een rugtas met planten waarbij een ventilatorsysteem de lucht door een [...]
Maker event: Breaking the bulb Make what you cannot make with a bulb Oct 23, 12.00 – 17.00
Are you interested? You can book your place to any of the event by sending e-mail to info@creorepublic.com with the following information: Event name, Name [...]
Maker event: Beauty of light Let it shine in a beautiful way Oct 25, 12.00 – 17.00
Are you interested? You can book your place to any of the event by sending e-mail to info@creorepublic.com with the following information: Event name, Name [...]
Maker event: Befriend light Lighting IoT, bright minds smart light Oct 27, 12.00 – 17.00
Are you interested? You can book your place to any of the event by sending e-mail to info@creorepublic.com with the following information: Event name, Name [...]
Jeroen Nissen – Tolerant Netherlands
This project stems from my annoyances. I have made a collection of comments and situations that friends of mine and I have experienced ourselves. The [...]