Installation

Dutch Design Week 2025

Next Nature Museum

ApathOS

— Making algorithms tangible

ApathOS is an installation that makes the way social media algorithms work tangible. In a simulated environment, visitors can try out various design choices and see how the ecosystem evolves over time.

We designed ApathOS to invite discussion on social media algorithms as designed artefacts. If they are designed, can we design them differently?

Data visualisation

Open source software

Zijn we al autonoom?

— Showcasing foreign dependence

The internet is becoming increasingly centralized among a small number of large providers. For an ever more digital Netherlands, that growing dependency can become problematic, especially if that dependency is used against us.

Zijn we al autonoom? reveals which parties the Dutch internet depends on, and in which sectors those dependencies are strongest.

On the website, you can explore 10,000 Dutch organizations and see whether their email and websites are provided by American or European companies. By pressing the red button, you can simulate what happens if access to those services is denied.

Installation

Dutch Design Week 2023

Packet Run

— The internet as a marble run

We use the internet every day, but we have little grasp on how it actually works beneath the surface.

Packet Run is a marble run that demonstrates how information moves across the internet and who is involved in that process. Visitors can follow actual packets on their trips around the globe.

Created by BMD Studio, in collaboration with SIDN Labs. Further developed by Studio Falkland in collaboration with BMD Studio

Visual story

Data visualisation

Open source software

Hoe het net werkt?

— What keeps the internet running?

We use the internet every day. It consists of a huge tangle of protocols, organisations and physical infrastructure.

For the call "Internet Infrastructuur in Beeld", we developed a visual story that guides you through the factors needed to keep the internet in the Netherlands running.

It also contains a collection of other visualisations about the internet, and serves as the starting point for additional visualisations within the "Internet Infrastructuur in Beeld" project.

Application designed and developed by Studio Falkland. Illustrations by Yaël van Engelen.

Open source software

Dutch Design Week 2020, 2021

Aeon

— Grip on personal data

What if recovering personal data was as easy as losing it in the first place?

Aeon is an application that allows users to automatically retrieve their personal data from various websites across the internet.

Aeon makes exercising civil data rights easy, such as the GDPR's Right of Retrieval and Right to be forgotten.

Application

OpenAI Grant

Common Ground

— AI-powered democratic deliberation

How should large language models behave? And how should those rules be democratically decided?

Common Ground is a discussion platform built with OpenAI in which AI Assistants help elicit shared values between groups of humans.

Created by Dembrane, BMD Studio, Sortition Foundation, Simpaticom, Aldo de Moor and Rolf Kleef.

Data platform

Raad voor Rechtsbijstand Grant

Toonbank

— Safe data exchange for law clinics

Rechtswinkels (law clinics) provide free legal assistance to those in need. This involves processing sensitive personal information.

Toonbank is a platform for safely storing legal case information. Through human-in-the-loop AI processing, information can be anonymously shared between clinics to improve their services.

Created by BMD Studio, Felix van Litsenburg, Amsterdam Law Hub and many Dutch law clinics.

Open source software

Fintunes

— Self-hosted music streaming

Many of our daily apps sport frictionless, beautiful designs. That makes moving to self-hosted open source solutions a lot harder.

Fintunes is an open source music streaming app for the Jellyfin ecosystem. It's simple and elegant designs attempts to make open source usage more broadly appealing.