At Dutch Design Week 2025, RE/CRAFT constructs a new aesthetic that allows viewers to not only see the works themselves, but also to reflect on the resource flows, ecosystems, and our shared future behind them.
With significant global influence and industry endorsement DDW 2025 marks its 25th edition. Each year, renowned designers and brands showcase work and innovations, attracting over 300,000 visitors from around the world.
Participating Designers/Artists: Tiange Li，Ruiting Xu，Yucheng Tang，Ling Sha，Yingjie Liu，Mingxian Ouyang，Haisheng Xu，Lifei Wang，Bo Zhang. These outstanding artworks will be exhibited at Piet Hein Eek, Eindhoven from October 18 to 25, 2025.
Ignite is a sculptural lighting piece that interprets the movement of fire through form and material. From a solid base, slender brass stems rise and curve to cradle glass spheres that appear weightless in suspension. Light emerges from quiet bulbs at the tips, creating a presence that emphasizes stillness rather than flame. Crafted in brass and glass, Ignite highlights the durability of material while presenting illumination as both functional and contemplative.
Ruiting Xu is an architectural designer and founder of Stoneveil Design. Her work spans architecture, objects and research, with an emphasis on sustainable frameworks and material reuse. Her practice explores how design can adapt across scales, from experimental objects to architectural prototypes, while maintaining durability and function. Projects including The Vessel Type, Unearth and Ignite, have gained international recognition and been exhibited globally on platforms dedicated to forward-thinking design.
Inspired by Iceland’s volcanic landscape, the Volcano Visitor Center integrates seamlessly with its surroundings by placing most of its program underground. A coffee shop, exhibition space, and roof terraces are linked via a Möbius strip circulation that weaves above and below ground, guiding visitors through a fluid spatial journey. A green roof conserves energy while echoing the vast horizon. Skylight openings draw daylight into subterranean spaces, creating a warm atmosphere that balances with the surrounding environment.
Los Angeles-based architectural designer Haisheng Xu practices at the intersection of technology, sustainability, and artistic creation, seeking to foster societal development through architectural design. His work integrates information-based design with emerging technologies to explore new artistic dimensions in architecture. He is also the co-founder of the research organization LYT-X Studio. His projects have received numerous accolades, including the Architizer A+ Awards, the International Design Awards, and the Red Dot Design Award.
The Senegal Women’s Mosque redefines the mosque as a women-centered space, transforming the marginalized ‘women’s entrance’ into the main gateway. Built with rammed earth beside farmland, it connects daily labor with prayer, learning, and dialogue. Light and water animate the interiors during the rainy season, symbolizing resilience and creativity. The project embodies spatial activism, responding to themes of migration, belonging, and home-making in shifting contexts.
Yingjie Liu (University of Washington) and Mingxian Ouyang (Politecnico di Milano) are architects and researchers working collaboratively across borders. Liu is a PhD student focusing on material classification and urban sustainability, while Ouyang explores critical regionalism and social justice in architecture. Their practice integrates academic research with cultural narratives, reimagining marginalized voices in built space. They aim to merge theory with lived experience, transforming architecture into a medium of belonging and resistance.
Conceived as an adaptive-reuse light sculpture, Luminous Re-weave bridges architecture, craft, and sustainability through acts of weaving and renewal. Modular metal and 3D-printed frames stack into luminous columns, each hand-wrapped with reclaimed textiles and customizable skins. Textile becomes both medium and memory, carrying traces of past lives. The reconfigurable system transforms discarded materials into warm, architectural light, inviting continual re-making and tactile engagement—where structure, memory, and human gesture intertwine to reveal cycles of transformation and enduring material life.
Yucheng Tang, AIA, is a California- and Texas-licensed architect and founder of TYCAA, a Los Angeles studio exploring urban reconstruction—commercial renewal of aging city fabric. Rice-educated and formerly a Senior Associate at Page, she leads context-driven masterplans and public-facing projects. Her work bridges architecture and design, spanning from large-scale architecture to furniture and installations, viewing all scales through the lens of human experience and spatial intimacy
Forest, Ocean, Drift in the Cloud is an experimental, improvisational, and cross-disciplinary work spanning art and design . This piece centers on the performance of designer during the act of making. It foregrounds an ongoing dialogue between the creator, the medium, and the form—a process of constant interaction and integration.
Feeling and resisting the forces of electronic tools—something both powerful and commanding—while gently touching the fragility of wood, the work unfolds as an exploration of social isolation within the context of diaspora through the human body.
Tiange Li (b. China, active in Chicago) is an interdisciplinary artist, designer, maker, and educator whose work challenges the idea of functionality in contemporary design. Her practice aims to break the boundaries between art and design to address current social issues. After earning her master’s degree from the Rhode Island School of Design, Tiange’s recent work explores the vulnerability of life, the paradoxical and relative nature of death and existence, and the grief and nostalgia tied to an imagined home.
Pixel Patrol is an immersive interactive installation that invites audiences to act as digital content moderators. Through real-time decision-making and layered visual storytelling, participants experience the ethical tensions of online governance. The work exposes the hidden labor behind digital order and reflects on how technology mediates empathy, power, and sustainability within modern information ecosystems.
Lifei Wang is a user experience designer and creative technologist whose interdisciplinary practice bridges art, design, and emerging technology. Her work investigates how intelligent systems transform human perception, ethics, and social structures. With a Bachelor of Fine Arts degree from Pratt Institute and an MPS in the Interactive Telecommunications Program (ITP) at NYU Tisch School of the Arts, Wang creates research-driven installations and interfaces that challenge conventional boundaries between humans and machines.
Luminous Reweave is born from the afterlife of recycled materials — daily clothing, office furniture upholstery, shopping bags, yarn, and plastics. It proposes an adaptive-reuse light sculpture that explores structure, shadow, and craft. Each modular component is hand-woven from these reclaimed materials to form a flat-pack, repairable lamp. By inviting re-making and repair, the piece transforms corporate waste streams into a source of warmth and architectural presence — revealing the quiet beauty and transformative impact of turning waste into light.
Ling Sha is an architectural designer and artist based in Denver, USA. Her practice spans architecture, art, and furniture, exploring the intersection of craft, sustainability, and adaptive reuse. An advocate for material circularity, she reimagines waste streams as sources of light and structure through projects like Luminous Reweave, creating modular, repairable, and DIY-friendly forms that bridge industrial production and handcraft.
The Ripples plays with perception and reflection in a way that challenges the viewer’s understanding of space. The designer started from the characteristics of “changing” ，including the change of vision, surface, color, etc., and developed a tray with new value, which is suitable for home and outdoor. The inspiration comes from the fun of visual angles, space folding and color change itself.
Bo Zhang, Artist，Curator and Designer，founder of Desz Office in NYC.Creativity and originality are the solid foundations on which his works can be recognized and loved. He believes a good artwork should be sentimental, have a soul, a wonderful interaction with people. This kind of interaction has both a visual level and a spiritual level, giving people inspiration and yearning.
The RE/CRAFT was Launched in 2023，is curated by Bo Zhang，explores the delicate relationship between humans and the environment through artistic practice. Sustainable concept are a perfect theme to connect art, the public, and the environment.
