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In focus: the winners of Dutch Design Awards

16 April 2024

Rotterdam Circulair x Christien Meidertsma - Best Commissioning - DDA23
Before Dutch Design Awards focuses on its next chapter, we reflect on how last year's winners are reshaping the capacity of the design field for impact. Discover, in a series of videos, the portraits of the Dutch Design Awards 2023 winners and their practices.

In focus:

Marcos Kueh

Marcos Kueh

In Marcos Kueh’s distinct visual language, he knows how to seamlessly interweave a contemporary digital aesthetic with age-old crafts and thus convey a story that cries out for attention.

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Christien Meidertsma

Rotterdam Circulair x Christien Meidertsma

The Soft City uses wool as a metaphor for the soft values of your city. It makes the circularity theme transparent and concrete for residents. 

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Clever Franke

Clever Franke

With the Africa Climate Mobility Initiative Website, CLEVER° FRANKE maps the complexity and impact of climate change via a dashboard, once again proving itself to be masters in visualizing and unlocking complex data.

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Super Local

Super Local

What goes up, must come down is a law of nature that did not apply to the waste on the Himalayas for a long time. Super Local came up with a solution, From the Himalayas, that was as poetic as it was pragmatic by creating another downward waste stream. 

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Tailors and Wearers

Tailors and Wearers

Platform for Afro-Surinamese Fashion and Heritage is a celebration of Afro-Surinamese heritage, fashion and education for and by different generations. Showcasing its many manifestations and modern interpretations, it brings people together in a place where these stories come from and where the heritage is developing further.

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Bosk

Bosk

Bosk applies gentle yet firm pressure to green cities. By sketching with groups on real trees, a sense of meaning and then loss was evoked. A brilliant idea, but incredibly complex to get done and to mobilize so many people and parties.

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Carlijn Kingma

Carlijn Kingma

Questioning our financial systems is relevant and topical. The Waterworks of Our Money maps out how our monetary system works, clarifying to a broader audience what economic standpoints may mean for society.

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Modem

Modem

Modem Research Papers are hyper-relevant. Exploring the impact of digitization on various aspects of our lives, they present a wide range of topics in attractive and accessible ways. 

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