In this issue, we explore new signals shaping the future, from unseen colours and AI breakthroughs to the evolution of craftsmanship, consumer behaviour, and sustainable energy.

A look at how design, culture, and media reveal changing values about connection, care, and creating a deeper understanding.

Systems, whether material, digital, or social, are not fixed, but constantly reimagined. This week, we trace how shifts in fashion, architecture, and technology and their impact on value and the future.

This week, we introduce the OvN Foresight Book Club and explore possibilities and innovations that offer opportunities for greater well-being, social change, and sustainability.

Unseen forces influence our experience, culture, and future. These include shifting demographics, visualizing the unseen, multisensory dining, or hidden industrial networks.

These stories of transformation, explore how human intervention and perspective reshape systems, inviting reflection on our evolving relationship with control, freedom, and agency.

Through corporate dystopias, trade shifts, attention crises, and fashion’s echoes, we explore how power and perception shape the evolving human experience.

Exploring shifts, countercultures, reimagined leisure, and evolving values that shape how we live, work, and connect.

In this report, the influences shift focus from gendered expectations to personal identity in the contect of historical shaping.

In the coming years, as identity becomes more fluid and creativity flourishes, self-expression will serve as a powerful tool for authentic connection and navigating a changing world.

This year's graduation shows featured students exploring their past and future worlds through deeply personal projects, challenging social norms and envisioning a better future.

The Match exhibition in Paris looks at the future of sports, combining human passion with design and innovation as the city prepares for the Summer Olympics and Paralympics.

Exploring the possibilities and properties of flax, a historical fibre with a bright future.

Womenswear directions mirror the transformation of female identity and womanhood and reexamine our bond with clothes as a form of expression.

In times of change, learners inherit the Earth, this quote symbolizes the direction for Fall Winter 2025.

The Dutch Design Week 2023 theme “Picture This” envisions a future shaped by creativity, regeneration and fusing local thinking with global awareness.