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Dutch Design Week 2020: live studio exhibitions & extensive online programme
08 Jun, 2020
After extensive consultation with the design community, key partners and relevant agencies, Dutch Design Foundation (DDF) has decided to let Dutch Design Week (DDW) 2020 forge ahead. It will be a combination of a live and online festival, with the focus on relevant matchmaking for the designers.
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Advice Council for Culture: DDF in Basic Infrastructure from 2021 onwards
04 Jun, 2020
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.
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Dutch Design Week 2019 is a wrap!
27 Oct, 2019
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.
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New ways of building showcased at Dutch Design Week
20 Oct, 2019
As the climate crisis grows, the need for a biobased economy is becoming increasingly urgent.
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Final round-up of themes explored at Dutch Design Week
18 Oct, 2019
With DDW only a day away, we compile a final list of the interesting and innovative projects that await visitors.
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Spotlight on Health at Dutch Design Week
11 Oct, 2019
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.
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Mobility, privacy and gender identity at Dutch Design Week
01 Oct, 2019
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.
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Dutch Design Week shows vision of the future
24 Sep, 2019
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.
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DDW announces 2019 ambassadors
04 Jul, 2019
The DDW19 ambassadors are: Studio Drift, Jalila Essaïdi, Alice Rawsthorn and Stefano Boeri Architetti. They unite enchantment, invention, theory and architecture.
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DDF shows the future of design during NYCxDESIGN 2019
10 May, 2019
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.
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Koning en DDF op werkbezoek bij Sectie-C
05 Apr, 2019
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.
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Dutch Design Week 2018 shows vison of the future
28 Oct, 2018
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.
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Dutch Design Week theme announced: If not us, then who?
05 Sep, 2018
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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Dutch Design Week kiest voor Vruchtvlees
22 Jun, 2018
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These are the ambassadors for Dutch Design Week 2018
22 Jun, 2018
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.
Renault official partner of Dutch Design Week
30 Mar, 2018
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. 
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Good ensemble of music and design during DDW
06 Nov, 2017
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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NLingenieurs rewards Dutch Design Foundation with 'De Wimpel'
03 Nov, 2017
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Dutch Design Week 2017 stretched the world
29 Oct, 2017
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.
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DDF and New Horizon go for circular Dutch Design Week
13 Oct, 2017
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.
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