Dutch Design Week

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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
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.

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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.[ citation needed ]

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
YearTheme
2012Enter a Brave new World
2013Now Future
2014UP
2015What if...
2016The Making of
2017Stretch
2018If not us, then who?
2019If not now, then when?
2020The New Intimacy
2021The Greater Number [3]
2022Get Set [3]
2023Picture 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
YearAmbassadors
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

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