On Monday, 11 January, Nanne de Ru, designer of the recently opened Pathé cinema gives at the cinema. Afterwards there will be an evening of architectural criticism in collaboration with TOPOS 
at the Jan van Eyck Acacdemy.

On 14 January, State Architect Floris Alkemade visits several projects in South Limburg, gives an evening lecture, and participates in a discussion.

Design by Choice investigates the origins of contemporary consumer society. At its centre is a representative sample of European cast iron trade catalogues.

Photographer Kim Bouvy (1974) has been commissioned by Bureau Europa to study the specific reciprocity between the industrial history and identity of Liege and Maastricht.

A special lecture series organised as part of the Design by Choice exhibition.

Renowned media theorist Geert Lovink visits Bureau Europa to talk about currency design, technologies of payment, and the role of the designer in economic experiments. In the aftermath of multiple financial crises, a growing number of developers, hackers, entrepreneurs, and other creators are preoccupied with the design of our financial futures.

Carnaval is one of, if not the most powerful rituals known to the city of Maastricht, a city that cherishes its customs. Traditions, both old and new, coexist alongside one another. It is all a matter of giving each other space. This is what makes Maastricht a good city to reside in, to live life in, and to visit.

After a successful first edition in January at the Passagen in Cologne – Germany's biggest design event – it is time for a second edition of Domestic Affairs, in which we rearticulated the exhibition for the Chinese context!

Transition of a City From a Poetic Perspective by Maarten van de Berg - poetry- and Bert Janssen - photography -

By popular request: workshop making bags using exhibition banners.

Future Urban Regions (FUR) organises, together with de Academie voor Bouwkunst Maastricht and Bureau Europa, the masterclass ‘Mapping de gezonde stad’ (in Dutch)

Are you curious about the stories behind your city's designed environment?

1 NIGHT – 10 ART VENUES – 14,000 M² ART – 110 ARTISTS 90 PERFORMANCES – 50 ARTISTES – 1 AFTER PARTY

After two successful editions in Cologne and Shenzhen, the exhibition Domestic Affairs, a House Is a Home to a Paradox will be on display from 24 March in Qatar's capital, Doha

Over the last years, performance has gained momentum and appreciation in the contemporary arts. Rooted in the mid ’60 Performance was a quintessential part of several focal shifts: the critique of material and commodity driven economics, the re-appropriation of the female body in feminism and a transferal of attention in art from the final product to the process of making, to name but a few.

Despite receiving increasing attention, exactly where in Maastricht is the Sphinxkwartier and what is the story behind this new district? As Sphinx hype reaches fever pitch, Toos Hofstede of Viastory presents the story of the Sphinxkwartier. However, more is needed than just the story; the area should be experienced first-hand, and preferably before and during the many planned changes.

The final presentations of Intervention Design, a minor at the Maastricht Academy of Media Design & Technology (MAMDT), take place on 28 June. In this minor, lead by the teacher and journalist Theo Ploeg, students are tasked with translating media theory and their personal values into design praxis.

Maastricht endeavours to be a creative city and promotes the creative industries as a top economic sector. Despite its leading art schools and Cultural Studies faculty, students leave the city en masse after graduation.

On Saturday 9 July, during an afternoon walk through the Sphinxkwartier, architectural knowledge and performative experience combine during the Walhalla Tour.

The exhibition The Next Big Thing is Not a Thing relates the evolving field of design to the science of anthropology. Using the gaze as a metaphor, the exhibition surveys the evolution of the design discipline and examines new fields of knowledge and critical practices. The exhibition questions the underlying myths within design, deconstructs its emerging signs, and examines how technology determines the future landscape of design.

Roel Slabbers (1983, Ospel) explains his graduation project, Inter Esse, for which he won the 2015 BNI PRIZE. Jurgen Bey, co-founder of Studio Makking & Bey and director of the Sandberg Institute, chaired the BNI jury and explains why they chose Slabbers' design.

In the autumn of 2015, 366 architects and designers responded to a call from Floris van Alkemade, the state architect, and Caroline Schippers (COA) for new, flexible housing solutions to provide suitable temporary homes for asylum seekers. This pop-up exhibition shows a selection of the best entries.

Organised by CNME and Bureau Europe, the Buiten de Perken! (Beyond Bounds) photography contest focuses on the curious contact between the green of nature and the grey of urban development. Read on for how to get involved!

The Bronze-Green Oak Wood is an exhibition exploring how we observe and depict nature, from landscape to back garden, vista to urban greenery, and from bio-utopia to an overgrown ruin’s 'unleashed' flora and fauna.

Het Sphinxkwartier ontwikkelt zich in rap tempo tot een creatieve en ondernemende stadswijk. Toch laten de oude fabrieken, en het definitieve vertrek van 'De Sphinx' (eind 2015), een leegte achter. Kan de ‘hippe’ herbestemming dit gat vullen?

People who are born deaf and blind gain little or no information by hearing and seeing, they have to rely on touch and movement. How they then express themselves is unique and often difficult to understand. Nightwalking II is an interdisciplinary installation in which you can experience for yourself what it is to have been born deaf and blind. A part of the installation is the film Touched, in which dancers, experts in the field of body language, meet these people.

On October 19 we shall talk with Maurice Hermans, author of the recently published book De Antistad (The Anti City). The publication depicts the genesis of the Netherlands’ most ageing, most transitional, and, some say, most unsuccessful city: Heerlen.

On Saturday 12 November, Bureau Europa organises a tour of Itteren, the epicentre of the Grensmaas project launched in 2008.

On Saturday 12 and Sunday 13 November, fourteen contemporary art institutions allied with Very Contemporary in the Euregion participate in the Contemporary-Art-Bus tour.

On 15 November, Jalila Essaïdi and Mike Thompson are Bureau Europa’s guest speakers. They discuss how the interplay between technology, science, art, and design leads to innovation in new areas.

Water is both a curse and a blessing. We are dependent on it: we must drink it, it is essential for farming, and we love it for recreation. Maas Paradox is an exhibition in which designers, artists, and residents consider the impact of climate change on the lives of people in the Meuse region.

On Wednesday 22 April a new series of talks, ‘The State of Europe’, starts at Bureau Europa.