Dutch Design Week

Dutch Design Week (DDW)

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 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]

## Contents

* 1 Theme
* 2 Ambassadors
* 3 See also
* 4 References
* 5 External links

## 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

* Dutch Design

## References

1. ↑ Ravenscroft, Tom (30 September 2020). "Dutch Design Week 2020 forced to take "unbelievably painful" decision to cancel physical shows". https://www.dezeen.com/2020/09/30/dutch-design-week-2020-cancelled-online-only/.
2. ↑ 2.0 2.1 "About DDW | Dutch Design Week" (in en). https://ddw.nl/en/about-ddw.
3. ↑ 3.0 3.1 Zaken, Ministerie van Buitenlandse (2022-10-24). "Zo zet Dutch Design Week Nederland op de kaart - Ministeries - Rijksoverheid.nl" (in nl-NL). https://www.rijksoverheid.nl/ministeries/ministerie-van-buitenlandse-zaken/het-werk-van-bz-in-de-praktijk/weblogs/2022/dutch-design-week-2022-interview-ambassadeur-dewi-van-de-weerd.
4. ↑ "Dutch Design Week 2023 in teken van thema Picture This - architectenweb.nl". https://architectenweb.nl/nieuws/artikel.aspx?ID=55445.

## External links

* Dutch Design Week

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