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17-25 October 2026

GEO—DESIGN: Junk. Alexandre Humbert

All That Is Solid Melts into Trash

Hosted by Design Academy Eindhoven

This project is now archived and was part of DDW19

From satellite graveyards to the Great Pacific Garbage Patch, GEO—DESIGN: Junk. explores global systems of discarded things and their new realities and potentialities. This city-wide exhibition, produced in collaboration with the Van Abbemuseum, showcases 18 projects by DAE alumni.
With strikingly different approaches to design and research, the exhibition traverses landfills, uncovers the ghosts of dead digital communities and discovers new ecosystems and economies built on detritus. It looks at junk as a microcosm, as an economic
Participants of this exhibition

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Design Academy Eindhoven
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About Design Academy Eindhoven

Design Academy Eindhoven (DAE) is one of the world’s leading design schools. The academy trains designers that proceed to make their mark on the future and has done so for over 70 years. It is recognised for its forward-thinking and renowned professors and alumni, who have made great advances in the design field.