The 2024 Evolution of Dutch Design Awards

This year, Dutch Design Awards dedicates time and space to facilitating a profound reflection on the awards, which entails reconsidering the strategy and redesigning its processes. A new approach for DDA will be presented early next year. 

Reflect and connect

In this ‘year of reflection and connection,’ DDA will focus on the award's rich history, highlighting young designers from the past and present. DDA will collaborate with ten previous winners or nominees in the Young Designers category.  Each is asked to introduce a promising name in the current young designer field. There will be candid talks, like the interviews by Evelien Reich (former chair of the Young Designer jury), asking them where they are now, how they got there, and how they are shaping the future. The work of these ten plus ten designers will be celebrated in the annual Dutch Design Awards exhibition during Dutch Design Week 2024. 

Participating Designers 

Impact has been a longstanding cornerstone of Dutch Design Awards. The exhibition will borrow from the five missions identified by Dutch Design Week as a framework for the relevant topics in which designers are working towards impact.

Thriving Planet
For a vital, healthy planet, design must enhance nature's power or at least not hinder it.

YUTA IKEYA spotlighted by CHRISTIEN MEINDERTSMA 
AUKE BLEIJ spotlighted by BOB HENDRIKX

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Living Environment
Designing our living environment, mobility, and the materials we use to create them goes hand in hand with shaping our quality of life.

STUDIO THUS THAT spotlighted by TOM VAN SOEST
NOAM YOUNGRAK SON spotlighted by CREAM ON CHROME

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Health & Wellbeing
Designs that structurally improve our quality of life – from the food we eat to healthcare and personal well-being – contribute to one of our most precious things: our health.

FIDES LAPIDAIRE spotlighted by FRANK KOLKMAN 
ST-DUO spotlighted by GABRIEL FONTANA

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Equal Society
To achieve equality in society, we must (re)design systems and interactions that value everyone. Safety, inclusiveness and connection are key here.

LOAN FAVAN spotlighted by DAE UK KIM
FEMKE HOPPENBROUWER spotlighted by MANON VAN HOECKEL 

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Digital Future
Designers fully explore and influence our digital realities and future, from virtual worlds to artificial intelligence and global platforms to individual experiences.

GINEVRA PETROZZI spotlighted by AUDREY LARGE
DIEGO GRANDRY spotlighted by MARIUS JOPEN

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