Dutch Design Week

💥📣 CALLING ALL DESIGNERS #DDW24💥📣 You are the future of design! 💛 Step up to the challenge. Apply now and take the stage this Dutch Design Week 2024. ⚡️ Come together in the best of all weeks. #DDW24 runs 19-27 OCTOBER 2024 in Eindhoven. Creativity, innovation, and smart coalitions will power us into the future during the best of all weeks. 🐐 Submit your work* before 14 June in a 4-step application process on www.ddw.nl. 🏗️ *Please note that projects that are outdoors or require a permit should be submitted for earlier assessment by 3 June. 👉 More info and registration via www.ddw.nl/participants Do you need assistance or have any questions? We are happy to help you! DDW wants to encourage applications from all possible backgrounds that can give a broad picture of the design field and realistically represent what is going on in society. Become a part of our community! ✹ ✹ ✹ 🎞️ Animation & Design: thonik 📀 Music: Yskid_beats Frank Sens

The unique DNA of Eindhoven is at risk: A possible departure of Design Academy Eindhoven (DAE) from this city, raises serious concerns with us. About Eindhoven and about the future of the academy. Thanks to Philips, the inventors’ DNA of technology and design has formed the core of our city and shaped our region for over a century. That DNA is characterised by qualities that are much-needed for the social challenges we face: our top technologists develop new possibilities and designers excel in both visualising and helping realise possible futures. People from all over the world view the lead Eindhoven has with envy. The creative sector is of serious economic value. Municipality research shows: around one billion euros of added value per year for this region. Yet the space for creativity in the city is under pressure, topped off by a possible departure of DAE. Away from Brabant, to Roermond!? It's an almost unimaganabel scenario. Firstly, without DAE, Eindhoven will lose a piece of its unique inventor DNA forever. Plus, in Roermond the academy would be uprooted from its vibrant ecosystem: the very dynamics of this region on which it thrives. Design Academy Eindhoven students rank among the top internationally. Precisely this up-and-coming talent is an important engine for the creative ecosystem, which also drives events like DDW and GLOW. DAE alumni can be found everywhere, in our city and far beyond; they all carry a piece of Eindhoven with them. They lead large innovation teams, work as creative entrepreneurs, on social issues in neighbourhoods, on strategy assignments for our Brainport companies, but also for companies like Nike and Ikea. They present worldwide as far as MoMa NYC and the United Nations. They offer new perspectives ––on broad social prosperity and equal opportunities for example–– with design that puts people, residents and ecology at the centre, for that future we want to live in. Vice versa, we really worry for the future of the academy, if it detaches itself from this fertile ground. The community will not just move with it. The proximity of that community to incubators, workshops, manufacturing companies, knowledge centres and events, not to mention its many peers, is simply invaluable. The creative ecosystem may be under pressure in Eindhoven ––and we need to work on that!–– it is still more present, more vibrant and more connected here than anywhere else. Especially with a municipality and province that actively promote and apply the importance of design. DAE and Eindhoven are inextricably linked. (...) 👉 Continue in the comment section. #OpenLetter signed by Miriam van der Lubbe (Creative Head Dutch Design Week), Martijn Paulen and Katja Pahnke (Directors Dutch Design Foundation).

♻️⚡️ What to do with wind turbines at the end of their technical lifespan? cepezed, Superuse Studios, Studio Carbon, and Chris Kievid (Interactivist) joined forces with the energy pioneer Vattenfall to promote circularity in wind energy. 🌬️ During Dutch Design Week 2023, Vattenfall launched the What if Lab: Upcycled Turbines. In the following months, the four selected design studios collaborated with Vattenfall to address the impending issue of how to efficiently and effectively reuse various parts of a wind turbine. 👉 From sustainable living on wind turbines to envisioning the future of the energy sector, get wind of the four innovative concepts that address this challenge via bit.ly/4a0VqZs

Get ready for Dutch Design Week 2024. 💛 During the 23rd edition of Dutch Design Week, Eindhoven will be wholly immersed in design of the future and the future of design. 💥 #DDW24 will take place live in Eindhoven from 19 to 27 October this year. Throughout nine whole days, creativity and innovation will power Eindhoven City. It's time to get our setting right, to form smart coalitions and explore new directions needed to drive into a meaningful future. Dutch Design Week is the podium for high-quality design, fearless experimentation and exhibitions that challenge and inspire Step up to the challenge: be a part of the best of all weeks. (🔔) The call for entries for DDW24 is now open. 🗓️ Ticketsale will start later this year. See you at DDW! 👋

“We are building a movement: to shift the focus of industry from producing more to producing better.” 💚 Highlighting game-changing products contributing to a sustainable future, seven talented designers were showcased at the SECRID Talent podium at Dutch Design Week 2023. 👉 Discover an in-depth look into the change these designers want to produce through how each brings a sustainable focus into the real world via bit.ly/3Q0u7XW . . . Super Local Solarix Jess Redgrave Frans Van Rooijen Michael Sailer Emy Bensdorp Luisa Kahlfeldt Kimia Amir-Moazami What Design Can Do

🎞️🏆 Before Dutch Design Awards moves into its next chapter, we reflect on how last year's winners are reshaping the capacity of the design field for impact. We bring the winners of Dutch Design Awards 2023 into focus in 8 video portraits. 👉 Watch now via bit.ly/3vYT539 📌 For more information on the transition of Dutch Design Awards check bit.ly/4a0wAt8 . . . 🏆 #MarcosKueh - Rotterdam Circulair x #ChristienMeindertsma - Modem - Stichting Tailors & Wearers - Super Local - CLEVER°FRANKE - Carlijn Kingma - Arcadia x Gemeente Leeuwarden

[While this open call is now closed, check the Call for Entries for DDW24 which is now open.] ⏰ The deadline for the #OpenCall is approaching. Apply with big projects that can land on prominent squares in Eindhoven and can act as hubs for connectivity and inspiration at the heart of DDW24. 👉 Involved with a large-scale project, exhibition, or installation? step up to the challenge via bit.ly/3IRgtCJ 📌 This Open Call looks for grand projects in public space. 👉 For other types of participation, the Call for Entries for DDW24 is now open. Check it out via DDW.nl/participation

🔥💥 Get ready: experience the creativity and innovation of Dutch Design Week 2023 in our official after-movie! We’re proud of what we've achieved with our community and can’t wait to come together again at #DDW24 from 19-27 October 2024! 🚀 🎬 Video: Blickfänger 🥁 Music: yskid_beats Frank Sens

Around 5,000 synthetic diapers are discarded into the landfill while a baby is potty trained. Sumo Baby offers a sustainable yet practical alternative that can bring that number down to 25. “We are working hard on building a community of conscious parents,” says Luisa Kahlfeldt. The high-performance diaper is attractively designed and much better for the care of the baby's bottom. Innovating with a specially developed textile and a smart system, it re-designs diapers into the needs of this century. Sumo Baby is one of seven projects on the SECRID Talent podium at Dutch Design Week highlighting game-changing products contributing to a sustainable future. 👉 Discover how good design and a sustainable focus can make a big difference while taking care of our small ones via bit.ly/3vvSJks

This food container chemically reacts to signs of spoilage.👃 Aiming to end our blind-trust on expiration dates and their impact on food waste streams, Vorkoster changes colour when food becomes unsafe, making it easy to guess how long it remains good past the suggested date. Acting like "the banana peel, but for every other food product," the container aims to reduce food waste by empowering consumers to judge on the state of food through their senses. By researching our daily habits, Kimia Amir-Moazami reclaims each individual's agency in reducing food waste. She was one of seven projects on the SECRID Talent podium at Dutch Design Week, highlighting game-changing products contributing to a sustainable future. 👉 Discover how Kimia Amir-Moazami is challenging our future relationship with food by going back to our senses via bit.ly/3VA0osG