Dutch Design Week
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Dutch Design Week (DDW) | |
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Genre | Design Festival, Exhibition |
Frequency | Annually |
Location(s) | Eindhoven |
Inaugurated | 2002 |
Previous event | 2021 |
Next event | 21–29 October 2023 |
Participants | Over 2600 |
Organized by | Dutch Design Foundation |
Website | https://ddw.nl |
Dutch Design Week (also known as DDW) is an event is about Dutch design, hosted in Eindhoven, Netherlands. The event takes place around the last week of October and is a nine-day event with exhibitions, studio visits, workshops, seminars, and parties across the city.
The event hosts companies including
The initiative began in 2002 as a
The DDW consists of around 120 venues. The main venues during the event are among others the Klokgebouw (Strijp-S), Design Academy Eindhoven and the Faculty of Industrial Design at the Eindhoven University of Technology, where successful and well-visited expositions are organized.
Whereas the main goal remains to create a non-commercial event, many
Pop venue
Dutch Design Week 2020 was an online-only event. A digital festival, initially planned to work alongside a programme of studio tours and socially distanced activities, became the centrepiece of the festival as all physical events had been cancelled due to a rise in coronavirus cases in the city.[1]
Theme
Since the 2012 edition Dutch Design Week picks a yearly theme overarching the entire week.[2]
Year | Theme |
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2012 | Enter a Brave new World |
2013 | Now Future |
2014 | UP |
2015 | What if... |
2016 | The Making of |
2017 | Stretch |
2018 | If not us, then who? |
2019 | If not now, then when? |
2020 | The New Intimacy |
2021 | The Greater Number[3] |
2022 | Get Set[3] |
2023 | Picture This[4] |
Ambassadors
Since 2009 Dutch Design Week picks multiple ambassadors from the field who are advocates of Dutch Design.[2]
Year | Ambassadors |
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2009 | Leonne Cuppen |
2010 | Roland Bird, Marijn van der Poll |
2011 | Miriam van der Lubbe, Bruno Ninaber van Eyben |
2012 | Robert Bronwasser, Joost van Bleiswijk, Kiki van Eijk |
2013 | Daan Roosegaarde, Piet Hein Eek |
2014 | Scholten & Baijings, Arne Hendriks |
2015 | Makkink & Bey, Koert van Mensvoort |
2016 | Bas van Abel
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2017 | Marcus Fairs, Winy Maas, Lonny van Ryswyck, Nadine Sterk |
2018 | Ravi Naidoo, Wendy Plomp, Laurens van den Acker |
2019 | Stefano Boeri, Alice Rawsthorn, Jalila Essaïdi, Lonneke Gordijn, Ralph Nauta |
2020 | Lideweij Edelkoort, Sabine Mercelis, Sean Carney |
2021 | Floris Alkemade, Natsai Audrey Chieza, Christien Meindertsma |
2022 | Formafantasma, Marjan van Aubel |
See also
References
- ^ Ravenscroft, Tom (30 September 2020). "Dutch Design Week 2020 forced to take "unbelievably painful" decision to cancel physical shows". Dezeen. Retrieved 26 October 2020.
- ^ a b "About DDW | Dutch Design Week". ddw.nl. Retrieved 2023-08-21.
- ^ a b Zaken, Ministerie van Buitenlandse (2022-10-24). "Zo zet Dutch Design Week Nederland op de kaart - Ministeries - Rijksoverheid.nl". www.rijksoverheid.nl (in Dutch). Retrieved 2023-08-21.
- ^ "Dutch Design Week 2023 in teken van thema Picture This - architectenweb.nl". architectenweb.nl. Retrieved 2023-08-21.