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Dutch Design Foundation (DDF), the organisation of a. o. Dutch Design Week (DDW), will be part of the national cultural basic infrastructure from 2021 onwards, according to the advice given today by the Council for Culture to Minister of Education, Culture and Science, Ingrid van Engelshoven.

With the chosen theme If not now, then when? for Dutch Design Week 2019, Dutch Design Foundation (DDF) literally put out a call to action to everybody to wait no longer, but to take action NOW and design the future.

As the climate crisis grows, the need for a biobased economy is becoming increasingly urgent.

With DDW only a day away, we compile a final list of the interesting and innovative projects that await visitors.

As societies around the world confront the problem of ageing populations and healthcare becomes increasingly complex and expensive, a more comprehensive approach based on new forms of collaboration is becoming ever more urgent.

Running from October 19 – 27, Dutch Design Week (DDW) explores themes that affect all of our lives, creating discussion and generating new ideas and prototypes. Here is our second selection of DDW 2019 themes - mobility, smart spaces/privacy and gender/identity - and project highlights.

Running from October 19 – 27, Dutch Design Week (DDW) will explore themes that are as diverse as they are challenging and timely, casting its focus as much on the speculative idea as the finished product. After all, most great inventions, designs and technologies started life as a prototype.

The DDW19 ambassadors are: Studio Drift, Jalila Essaïdi, Alice Rawsthorn and Stefano Boeri Architetti. They unite enchantment, invention, theory and architecture.

The pioneering potential of Dutch design is making waves all over the world. Dutch Design Foundation (DDF) presents the potential of design - which transcends aesthetics - at NYCxDESIGN.

Zijne Majesteit de Koning was vrijdagmiddag 5 april op werkbezoek in Eindhoven. Samen met de burgemeester van Eindhoven John Jorritsma en de directeur van Dutch Design Foundation (DDF), Martijn Paulen bracht hij een bezoek aan Sectie-C.

Courtesy of 2,600 (inter)national designers, Dutch Design Week (DDW) can be seen as the lab of the future showcasing vision in conceptual and technological innovation as well as in the renewal of crafts and systems. DDW was spread over 120 locations where 355.000 professionals, industry representatives, governments, visitors and journalists enjoyed 499 exhibitions, lectures, tours and labs.

With just under seven weeks to go until the opening, the 17th edition of Dutch Design Week (DDW) is starting to really take shape. Today the theme is revealed, and part of the programme is on the all-new website, that is organised as a content platform for design.

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Ravi Naidoo (Design Indaba), Laurens van den Acker (Renault) and Wendy Plomp (Dutch Invertuals) are the ambassadors of the 17th Dutch Design Week (DDW). The ambassadors deploy their network to create links, function as a sounding board for participants and visitors, and initiate special activities during the week.

Dutch Design Week (DDW) and Renault have joined forces with 45 new, completely electric Design Rides for the seventeenth edition of DDW that is to take place in Eindhoven from 20 - 28 October 2018. 

Dutch Design Week (DDW) and the Effenaar reflect on a successful third edition of DDW Music. The great atmosphere was given a boost this year by a progressive music programme with 70 artists in various locations across the city. With a total of more than 16,000 visitors three quarters of the performances were sell-outs.

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Dutch Design Week (DDW) 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.

Dutch Design Foundation (DDF) is going to strive for a more sustainable DDW together with New Horizon and their new Urban Mining Collective, which recovers useable components and raw materials from buildings. Together, the organisations want to create more interest in CO2-neutral and circular building.

For the last five years, VPRO and Dutch Design Week (DDW) have worked together as content partners on behalf of design. From this intensive and fruitful partnership, a new television programme has developed. In “De toekomstbouwers” (The future builders), well-known Dutch actor and writer Wilfried de Jong speaks with eight emergent designers from DDW who are shaping our future. During the programme three jury members Afaina de Jong (architect), Koert van Mensvoort (artist and philosopher) and Martijn Paulen (director Dutch Design Foundation) will actively engage with the talents, listening, asking questions and finally will award one of the designers with the VPRO Future Builders Grant of 10,000 euros.