Engage 2025

From 9 to 12 October, Rotterdam’s Witte de Withkwartier will transform into a living laboratory for collaboration and imagination. Engage 2025 brings together makers, residents and entrepreneurs to explore how we can build stronger, fairer and more creative communities – placing the social domain and the arts side by side.

Over four days, the programme offers workshops, talks, block parties, listening sessions and co-creation activities. Participants will work on tangible ideas and initiatives that will be developed and implemented in the neighbourhood over the next two years. These include new forms of collaboration in the social domain, creative interventions in public space, and projects that strengthen the local community.

Engage 2025 is not a temporary festival, but the starting point of a movement that aims to endure. Through shared building and experimentation, it shows how art, design and entrepreneurship can contribute to lasting urban change.

Find out more about the programme and how to get involved here.