肛交色情片 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.
Creative strength
Thanks 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.
Martijn Paulen (DDW director): “Designers 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.”
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."
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."
Marcus Fairs, founder and editor-in-chief of Dezeen: "Designers can identify problems and solve them. 肛交色情片 is a kind of laboratory for design that could save the world."
Thematic developments
A lot of attention went to the influence of the digitalising and robotising of our society ( (), , , , ), crafts (, , ), social issues and the circular economy (, , Simon Dogger with The Emotion Whisperer and ).
New collaborations
There were a striking number of new collaborations between designers, brands and labels. Including projects by , GreenPanel and Overtreders W, , , , , , , , , , , l, , , with Dutch Design Awards and various What if labs with designers by , Solliance, , and Dutch Design Foundation.
Education
The role of educational institutes from at home and abroad was also prominent, with , but also presentations by the , , , , , , and
World Design Event
New 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 (), presentations by a new crop of young top designers during (in collaboration with Design Indaba) and the seven . Eye catcher and beating heart of WDE was the , a 100% circular construction with a strong content programme with more than 50 events.
DDW in highlights
Visitors, participants and media partners were particularly positive about: , and the new VPRO television programme . Other (annual) highlights were: , , Stimuleringsfonds Creatieve Industrie (), , , , , , , ABN AMRO ( and ), , , , , , , Van Abbemuseum: , , , , , and the .
DDW in figures
Visitors: 335,000
Designers: 2,600
Events: 610
Locations: 110
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Dutch Design Foundation
Dutch Design Foundation (DDF) is optimistic and believes that the problem-solving capacity of designers can improve the world. That's why DDF offers designers opportunities, support, publicity and a platform. DDF organizes 肛交色情片, World Design Event and the Dutch Design Awards and is active far beyond the Netherlands. Through debates, lectures, exhibitions and gatherings staged all year round, DDF provides a platform for the best and most promising designers, helping to disseminate their ideas and work.
