Design prize 2025
Visiting time: ●●● Short (15 minutes)Design Museum Den Bosch is proud to present the work of three talents from the Brabant design world, selected by Niels van Eijk and Miriam van der Lubbe, winners of the Design Prize for 2025. The prize is awarded every two years by the Culture Fund North Brabant, alternating between an established designer and an up-and-coming talent. The work of Niels van Eijk and Miriam van der Lubbe has already been shown at several museums. So they are now keen to offer a stage to three emerging design talents they themselves have selected: Amina Zemouli, Femke Hoppenbrouwer and Kantamanto Social Club.
Design of the future
Design Museum Den Bosch aims to highlight and discuss the cultural significance of design by presenting 20th and 21st-century design objects and linking the discipline’s past, present and future. Each of the Design Prize winners is concerned in their own way with the significance of design to society, both now and in the future. A curious view of society is also central to the work of the talents selected by Van Eijk and Van der Lubbe.
Amina Zemouli
Amina Zemouli (2001) is an Algerian designer who explores the boundary between design and science. Her work is based on mathematical principles, through which she explores the geometric beauty of algorithms by translating these complex, abstract principles into tangible objects. She achieves this by designing digital sculptures with modelling software and then 3D printing them. To Zemouli, mathematics is not an intimidating and rigid discipline, but a poetic tool, surprising and full of meaning. Her work invites us to experience mathematics not only with our minds, but with our feelings too.
Photo Pierre Banoori
Femke Hoppenbrouwer
Social designer Femke Hoppenbrouwer (1998) develops playful, disorienting projects through which she exposes social stigmas and encourages social participation. Her work – often in collaboration with specific communities – focuses on viewpoints that are sometimes overlooked. This is also what she does with Het Scootmobiel Dans Collectief (Mobility Scooter Dance Collective) in which she works with older adults and people with reduced mobility. The project overturns clichés about old age and dependency: rather than being ‘objects of care’, the participants are proud dancers in a remarkable performance, their scooters an extension of their bodies.
Photo Femke Rijerman
Kantamanto Social Club
Kantamanto Social Club (KSC) is a collective founded by Daan Sonnemans (1996) and Anabel Poh (1999), which provides a platform for fashion designers from Ghana – upcyclers who take garments exported from the global north and turn them into unique creations. KSC holds out these designers as pioneers of circular fashion. By spotlighting their work, the collective not only demonstrates their creativity and resilience and that of their historically overlooked communities, it also calls for the transformation of the global fashion system into an industry that is more sustainable and equitable.
Photo Daan Sonnemans
About the Culture Fund North Brabant Design Prize
The Design Prize of the Culture Fund North Brabant is awarded every two years, alternating between an established name and an emerging talent. Previous winners are Piet Hein Eek (2017), Simone Post (2019), Bart Hess (2021) and Manon van Hoeckel (2023). The jury for the 2025 prize was made up of Fransje Gimbrère, Yassine Salihine and Bart Hess.
