Philips - Design - Portfolio

Ever since Vision of the Future in the early 90s, our in-depth,forward-looking exploration projects have delivered many vital insights for strategic business development. In some cases we investigate as far as 20 years ahead, taking emerging ‘societal signals’ and exploring how they could potentially shape our lives in years to come.

Microbial Home

A domestic ecosystem that challenges conventional design solutions to energy, cleaning, food preservation, lighting and human waste.

Metamorphosis

Exploration on how we have become separated from the natural world, both in terms of our surroundings and how we perceive and manage our time.

FOOD

A provocative and unconventional look at areas that could have a profound effect on the way we eat and source our food 15-20 years from now.

Off the grid: Sustainable habitat 2020

Integrating electronics and bio chemical functionalities into the inert material of the built environment, fundamentally changing the current approach to buildings and habitat.

VIBE

Emotional sensing necklace combines conductive ink and textile sensors.

Mind Spheres

Exercising fine motor skills through dexterous movement is both a relaxing and a rewarding experience.

Fractal

New business opportunities can be identified by exploring the interaction between the human body, apparel and the near environment.

Reading Room 2020

Radiology reading rooms of the future will combine working comfort, efficient use of space and effortless connectivity with colleagues.

Rationalizer

Philips and Dutch bank ABN AMRO cooperated to create the Rationalizer, an emotion sensing concept targeted at serious home online investors.

Skintile

This Electronic Sensing Jewelry explores emotional and physiological sensing and re-defines traditional body adornment.

SKIN: Tattoo

Examining the growing trend of extreme body adornment like tattoos, piercing, implants and scarring by applying sensitive technology to the human body.

SKIN: Dresses

Examining the future for high tech materials and Electronic Textile Development in the area’s of skin and emotional sensing.