Discover the latest innovations by over 2,600 designers from the Netherlands and beyond during DDW, together with colleagues or relations.
Choose an Area Tour, Mission Tour or Custom Tour and go beyond a guided visit. Led by a knowledgeable and passionate Design Guide, you’ll explore a range of projects while gaining deeper insights, hearing the stories behind the work and meeting the designers.
Get inspired, expand your network and take home ideas that truly move you forward.
Area Tours
Explore a specific area
Klokgebouw Tour
Experience the diversity of Dutch Design Week and the power of design during the Klokgebouw Tour, in the heart of the creative district of Strijp-S.
Strijp-S Tour
The Strijp-S Tour takes you past some of the most iconic locations on Strijp-S, offering a captivating introduction to the creative heart of Dutch Design Week.
Design Academy Tour
The Design Academy Eindhoven Tours are a student-run initiative for guided tours, based upon individually curated tours, arranged, produced, and guided by graduating designers.
Strijp-S+ Tour | Bites & Insights
The Strijp-S+ Tour | Bites & Insights takes you past some of the most iconic locations in Strijp-S. Along the way, there is plenty of room for meeting and networking during several culinary stops.
Mission Tours
Mission Tours are based on DDW’s missions, designed to better connect its diverse community of designers and visitors. They help visitors explore with purpose and connect designers with the right audiences.
Digital Futures Tour
The Digital Futures Tour offers an in-depth exploration of how designers are shaping the digital world of tomorrow.
Equal Society Tour
The Equal Society Tour highlights projects working towards a more inclusive, safe, and connected society.
Health & Wellbeing Tour
The Health & Wellbeing Tour offers an inspiring exploration of design projects that aim to structurally improve our quality of life.
Thriving Planet Tour
The Thriving Planet tour focuses on design that supports a healthy planet and strengthens nature’s innate power.
Living Environment Tour
The Living Environment Tour focuses on projects that influence the quality of our daily lives, touching on themes such as architecture, public space, mobility and housing.
Custom Tours
Personalised tours to match your interests
Custom Tour | 1,5 hrs
The 1.5-hour Custom Tour offers a compact, unique and fully tailor-made DDW experience. This tour is ideal for organisations, teams or networks looking to discover the most relevant projects within their field or area of interest. Gain inspiration and connect directly with designers.
Custom Tour | 2 hrs
During the 2-hour Custom Tour, you and your colleagues or relations will explore a programme tailored to your organisation, featuring relevant projects, designers and insights aligned with your interests or network. Ideal for organisations, teams or networks looking to discover the projects most relevant to them. Get inspired and connect directly with designers.
Custom Tour | 2,5 hrs
The 2.5-hour Custom Tour offers additional room for deeper exploration, encounters and conversation. A tailor-made programme centred around the themes, innovations and designers most relevant to your organisation. Get inspired and meet the designers behind the work.
Custom Tour | 3 hrs
With the 3-hour Custom Tour, you’ll take a deeper dive into DDW. Together with an experienced Design Guide, you’ll visit a curated selection of projects and designers aligned with the interests and ambitions of your organisation or network. This tour also offers plenty of room for deeper exploration, conversation and encounters with designers.
