Dutch Design Week (DDW) and World Design Event (WDE) look back on a successful edition with more than 335,000 visitors. A week full of creative connections, groundbreaking design, and innovation. The quality of the event especially is on the up; in addition to exhibitions, there was ample space for discussion and debate about designing our future. Companies, professionals, government, media, and designers exchanged ideas throughout the week. The first edition of the World Design Event was met with great enthusiasm. Furthermore, the international press and professionals were better represented than ever before.<\/p>\n
Here’s an overview of Dutch Design Week 2017<\/strong><\/em><\/a><\/p>\n Creative strength<\/strong> Martijn Paulen (DDW director): \u201cDesigners like working together, looking for the edges of possibility, they stretch. They all aim to make the world a better place, as professional idealists. They try to help our world advance, step by step, to make the world more beautiful, more sustainable, healthier, more sociable, perhaps less lonely, and for instance more practical. During DDW they manifest themselves as a creative force of nature.\u201d<\/p>\n The DDW ambassadors too have expressed their distinct opinions on the week. Atelier NL: “During DDW the world comes together in Eindhoven and connects with the localness of the city. Designs can be felt and seen everywhere, anyone can touch it. Sometimes literally, personally and intimately, in other places grand and using the latest technology. In our opinion this is both beautiful and important, it gives us the opportunity to reassess all kinds of things: nature, the city, each other.”<\/p>\n Winy Maas: “During this edition of DDW I was fascinated by the incredible energy I experienced. This ambassadorship is something that will not end at the end of the Week, it is a long-term connection and creates obligations. As an ambassador, I get assigned homework: to follow-up with designers, organizations, ministries, and foundations, on all matters that were discussed during DDW. I’m looking forward to it.”<\/p>\n Marcus Fairs, founder, and editor-in-chief of Dezeen: “Designers can identify problems and solve them. Dutch Design Week is a kind of laboratory for design that could save the world.”<\/p>\n Thematic developments<\/strong><\/p>\n A lot of attention went to the influence of the digitalising and robotising of our society (Frank Kolkman<\/a>\u00a0(Dutch Design Awards<\/a>),\u00a0Embassy of Health<\/a>,\u00a0Embassy of Robot Love<\/a>,HUBOT<\/a>,\u00a0MU: Materialising the Internet<\/a>), crafts (Atelier NL<\/a>,\u00a0Crafts Council<\/a>,\u00a0Arita: New Radicals<\/a>), social issues and the circular economy (World Design Event<\/a>,\u00a0Dave Hakkens with Precious Plastic<\/a>, Simon Dogger with The Emotion Whisperer and\u00a0Miriam de Bruin for HEMA design daten<\/a>).<\/p>\n New collaborations<\/strong> Education<\/strong> World Design Event<\/strong> DDW in highlights<\/strong> DDW in figures<\/strong> Dutch Design Week (DDW) and World Design Event (WDE) look back on a successful edition with more than 335,000 visitors. A week full of creative connections, groundbreaking design, and innovation. 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\nThanks to 2,600 national and international designers, Eindhoven once again established itself as the focal point of the creative industry. In 610 exhibitions, presentations, tours and activities in 110 locations spread across the city, work by famous designers and established labels was on show while at the same time DDW provided a podium for young talent and experiment.<\/p>\n
\nThere were a striking number of new collaborations between designers, brands and labels. Including projects by\u00a0IKEA and Piet Hein Eek<\/a>, GreenPanel and Overtreders W,\u00a0Low&Bonar and In4nite<\/a>,\u00a0Auping and RENS<\/a>,\u00a0KickStarter and voordekunst<\/a>,\u00a0Frame and Bijenkorf<\/a>,\u00a0Forbo<\/a>,Baars & Bloemhoff (Transitions III)<\/a>,\u00a0Vlisco and Modebelofte<\/a>,\u00a0Envisions and Finsa<\/a>,\u00a0Luxaflex and Dutch Invertuals<\/a>,\u00a0Textielmuseum and Studio Job<\/a>,\u00a0Volkskrant Design Tafe<\/a>l,\u00a0New Horizon<\/a>,\u00a0Enexis<\/a>,\u00a0Smurfit Kappa<\/a>\u00a0with Dutch Design Awards and various What if labs with designers by\u00a0FaberExposize<\/a>, Solliance,\u00a0NS<\/a>,\u00a0VNG<\/a>\u00a0and Dutch Design Foundation.<\/p>\n
\nThe role of educational institutes from at home and abroad was also prominent,\u00a0with graduate work from the Design Academy and Universities of Technology in Eindhoven, Delft and Wageningen<\/a>, but also presentations by the\u00a0Willem de Kooning Academy<\/a>,\u00a0Product Design Arnhem\u00a0<\/a>ArtEZ<\/a>,\u00a0Koninklijke Academy voor Beeldende Kunst<\/a>,\u00a0ECAL\/University of Art & Design Lausanne<\/a>,\u00a0Bauhaus Universit\u00e4t Weimar<\/a>,\u00a0Burg Giebichenstein University of Art & Design Halle<\/a>,\u00a0Kunstenaars-collectief 019 and LUCA School of Arts<\/a>\u00a0and\u00a0Central Saint Martins.<\/a><\/p>\n
\nNew this year was World Design Event, with an international programme focusing on solutions for the future of our world. The first edition was well-attended, among others due to talks by ambassador Marcus Fairs (Talks: Good Design for a Bad World<\/a>), presentations by a new crop of young top designers during\u00a0Antenna<\/a>\u00a0(in collaboration with Design Indaba) and the seven\u00a0Embassies of the Future<\/a>. Eyecatcher and beating heart of WDE was thePeople\u2019s Pavilion<\/a>, a 100% circular construction with a strong content programme with more than 50 events.<\/p>\n
\nVisitors, participants and media partners were particularly positive about:\u00a0(W)EGO<\/a>,Embassy of Health<\/a>\u00a0and the new VPRO television programme\u00a0De toekomstbouwers<\/a>.\u00a0Other (annual) highlights were:\u00a0Design Academy Eindhoven<\/a>,\u00a0Dutch Design Awards<\/a>, Stimuleringsfonds Creatieve Industrie (In No Particular Order<\/a>),\u00a0Sectie C<\/a>,\u00a0Dutch Invertuals<\/a>,Hardcore<\/a>,\u00a0Low & Bonar<\/a>, Manifestations<\/a>,\u00a0Age of Wonderland<\/a>,\u00a0Brabant Living Lab<\/a>, ABN AMRO (Driving Dutch Design<\/a>\u00a0and\u00a0Hotspots<\/a>),\u00a0Modebelofte<\/a>,\u00a0Kazerne<\/a>,\u00a0BioArt Laboratories<\/a>,Transnatural<\/a>,\u00a0Piet Hein Eek<\/a>,\u00a0Kiki & Joost<\/a>, Van Abbemuseum:\u00a0Beyond Generations<\/a>,\u00a0Fontys Trendtours<\/a>,\u00a0Yksi<\/a>,\u00a0TAC<\/a>,\u00a0Social Label<\/a>,\u00a0VPRO Medialab<\/a>\u00a0and the\u00a0Volvo Design Rides<\/a>.<\/p>\n
\nVisitors:\u00a0335,000
\nDesigners:\u00a02,600
\nEvents: 610
\nLocations: 110<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"