Dutch Design Week

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.

Dutch Design Week (DDW)
GenreDesign Festival, Exhibition
FrequencyAnnually
Location(s)Eindhoven
Inaugurated2002
Previous event2021
Next event21–29 October 2023
ParticipantsOver 2600
Organized byDutch Design Foundation
Websitehttps://ddw.nl

The event hosts companies including Philips, Philips Design and DAF, as well as the Design Academy Eindhoven and the Eindhoven University of Technology.

The initiative began in 2002 as a non-commercial fair and by 2018 had 355,000 visitors.

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 conflicts of interest and the rapid growth did contribute to a more commercial approach since 2007.

Pop venue Effenaar and classical music venue Muziekgebouw Frits Philips both organize the musical program DDW Music around the festival with live performances as well as exhibitions related to experimental musical instruments, sound art and sound installations.

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]

Dutch Design Week themes
Year Theme
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]

Dutch Design Week Ambassadors
Year Ambassadors
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 Maarten Baas & Bas van Abel
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

  1. Ravenscroft, Tom (30 September 2020). "Dutch Design Week 2020 forced to take "unbelievably painful" decision to cancel physical shows". Dezeen. Retrieved 26 October 2020.
  2. "About DDW | Dutch Design Week". ddw.nl. Retrieved 2023-08-21.
  3. 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.
  4. "Dutch Design Week 2023 in teken van thema Picture This - architectenweb.nl". architectenweb.nl. Retrieved 2023-08-21.
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