Just as spiderlings are born into a world already woven, designers enter a socio-political web designed to attract, protect, produce, and capture. How do designers, like spiders, navigate the fine line between being the weaver and the entangled?
ARACHNE is a collective formed during the members’ studies in the Industrial Design Master’s programme at the Royal Academy of Art, The Hague (KABK). It was created as a space to reflect on the networks they weave and inhabit. Following graduation and the dispersal of the collective into individual practices, A YEAR LATER brings them back together to weave a network of design practice that spans generations of KABK Industrial Design alumni.
A YEAR LATER is an invitation to sustain that momentum. It offers a space to reflect, but above all to extend. The collective understands design as fundamentally relational. Whether a product, material, installation, or exhibition, a work only gains its fullest meaning in dialogue with its contemporary counterparts and the wider systems in which it exists.
Bringing together works, processes, struggles, and successes from emerging designers, A YEAR LATER presents a constellation of perspectives within an interconnected network of design—one that stretches across social systems, material agencies, and interpersonal dynamics.
The exhibition opens with a panel discussion featuring multiple generations of KABK Industrial Design Master’s alumni, creating a conversation between emerging and established practices.
ARACHNE is a collective founded by alumni of the Industrial Design Master’s programme at the Royal Academy of Art, The Hague (KABK). While each member maintains an individual practice and perspective, they remain connected through an evolving network of shared inquiry, collaboration, and (industrial) design.