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The Symbiotic Design Academy invites WDO members to the exclusive launch of "Symbiotic Design Framework" by Dr. Gonzalo Raineri during Dutch Design Week. This vital new work challenges design to move beyond superficial sustainability, introducing a framework that positions design as an adaptive, living system—deeply embedded within our shared ecological and cultural networks. Attendance for […]
Dutch Design Week celebrates a quarter century of shaping the future. Under the theme ‘Past. Present. Possible.’, DDW reflects on its legacy, showcases today’s creative energy, and explores what design can become. A platform where ideas connect, possibilities open, and the future is designed together. Learn more: https://ddw.nl/
Dutch Design Week announced the theme for their 2024 edition: Real Unreal. The theme addresses how we navigate all the different realities our world nowadays consists of. What is real and what is not, and where do all of our very diverse perspectives meet? Designers explore and question what we accept as truths, and show […]
The ((Capsule)) showcases the actions of Hong Kong in circular design that reflects its unique cityscape, cultural and socio-economic developments such as double aging, the urge for inclusivity, and more. This exhibition is part of dX 2023, a design exchange programme between the Netherlands and Hong Kong under the partner country collaboration of Business of […]
Dutch Design Week in Eindhoven is the largest design event in Northern Europe and presents work and concepts from more than 2,600 designers to more than 355,000 visitors from home and abroad. Website
The 2021 DesignEuropa Awards are presented in collaboration with the Dutch Ministry of Economic Affairs and Climate Policy and the Benelux Office for Intellectual Property. The DesignEuropa Awards ceremony will take place on 19 October 2021 in Eindhoven, coinciding with Dutch Design Week (16-24 October). The DesignEuropa Awards are now in their third edition. Website
DRIVE is coming up again! Just like last year, the Design Research & Innovation Festival will take place in De Effenaar, during the Dutch Design Week. And just like last year, they - together with Design United are turning it into a hybrid and interactive event that you can join from home. Five different themes in five […]
With the overarching theme of Dutch Design Week 2021 (DDW21), The Greater Number, DDW is first and foremost calling for less. Where less is not the best solution to more, but better. In 4 subthemes, we explore different perspectives to this quest, and invite the design field to reflect on this during DDW21. Website
Taking into consideration the expected impact of COVID-19, DDW has spent the past couple of months developing a virtual festival experience. Initially parallel to the live DDW, but now this will become the international main stage. Paulen: "Of course this cannot replace the live week, but we are going to scale up the virtual programme […]
The biggest design event in Northern Europe presents work and ideas of more than 2600 designers to more than 300,000 visitors from home and abroad. In more than 110 locations across the city, DDW organizes and facilitates exhibitions, lectures, prize ceremonies, networking events, debates and festivities. Website
