Ways of Seeing at Dutch Design Week
17–25 October 2026
Dutch Design Week
Piet Hein Eek, Eindhoven
A transformative spatial installation that plays with your perception of colour
How much is there to see when we take the time to look? Join us at Dutch Design Week for Ways of Seeing. Step into a layered colour space of translucent fabric, material and light, where layers overlap and colours shift as you move, creating a colour passage that changes with your perspective.
Inspired by the NCS System and its connection to human colour perception, Ways of Seeing creates a spatial feeling for colour. NCS is the only colour system that can describe any colour humans can perceive, and the installation invites you to experience it intuitively, through your own eyes.
Connecting through colour
Ways of Seeing is presented by NCS Colour, with concept and curation by Other Degree, creative direction and installation design by Rive Roshan, furniture developed with and realised by Cooloo, textiles and textile installation by Big Impact, in collaboration with Broeinest.
Colour interaction every day at 13:30
Join us at Piet Hein Eek every day for our rotating format, exploring how we perceive colour. The session invites you to engage with colour in new and unexpected ways. Designed to spark curiosity and creativity.
From colour space to installation
Every colour in Ways of Seeing was selected from the NCS Colour Space and placed in the room from warm to cool, from soft yellows and peach tones to pinks and blues. With NCS+, you can extract NCS colours from your own images or find them on the platform, each with its exact notation, then collect them and shape them into a moodboard.
Colours of Ways of Seeing
A palette of twelve shades selected by Rive Roshan for Ways of Seeing, reflecting how colour changes with light, material and the way we look.
Let's meet in colour
Meet NCS Colour at design weeks, industry exhibitions and events around the world. Explore our upcoming events and find out where you can meet our team.