To count, or not to count? That is the question
“Watching is counting”, says Arne Hendriks in the auditorium of Natlab on Monday night. The curator is first speaker during ‘The Big Data/Dada Dialogues’. A seminar about big data, organised by Age...
DDW16
Dutch Design Week attracts record number of almost 300,000 visitors
Dutch Design Week, which had its last day today, atracted almost 300,000 vistors, a record number. “We look back on a successful 15th edition”, says Raffaela Vandermühlen, head of PR....
John Körmeling Would Like To Take On Eindhoven With A Bulldozer
When John Körmeling was asked what he would like to change on the city of Eindhoven he replied: ‘I would hop in a bulldozer and demolish half the city.’ That seemed a bit ambitious. For...
Tom van Soest wins DDA Young Designer Award, Brabantia best client
“With an approach that demonstrates courage and the passion of a true artisan”, Tom van Soest is the winner of this year’s Young Designer Award. From the three nominated young designers...
FLAX Chair by Christien Meindertsma big winner of the Dutch Design Awards 2016
The winner in the Product category of the Dutch Design Awards, FLAX Chair by Christien Meindertsma, impressed the international jury on all fronts, and won the Future Award: the big prize for the...
GameBus helps the city of Eindhoven with healthy urban living campaign
The city of Eindhoven is using GameBus, a social health gaming app developed at EIT Digital, to promote the subject of healthy urban living during Dutch Design Week (DDW). Eindhoven puts health and...
Roundabout design – step by step towards a global Hotspot
Visitors of the Dutch Design Week can’t miss it: Roundabout Design. Daan Melis is the driving force behind this project, that focuses on making design and technology more visible in the city center....
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[DDW Special] Design as a solution for the refugee crisis
The COA (Central Agency for the Reception of Asylum Seekers) has enlisted the help of designers to house refugees by launching a competition. They received 366 entries for ‘A Home Away From Home’,...
Tiny Tim House Allows Inhabitant To Drink Its Own Pee
During DDW, the Tiny Tim House is exposed at Strijp-S. The little house fuels itself and is completely durable. In order to live in it, owners will pour 2000 litres of drinkable water in a...
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[DDW Special] The tension between art and commerce
“It focuses on the tension between art and commerce,” says Maarten Baas of his contribution to the RoundAbout Design Route, which will be open during Dutch Design Week (DDW). The designer represents...
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[DDW SPECIAL] Data Deserts: hidden subjects in the digital map
Albert Jan Kruiter, member of the Sounding Board of The State of Eindhoven, public entrepreneur and founder of the Instituut voor Publieke Waarden on ‘data deserts’. Data Deserts at the...
COLUMN: Art is ahead of Innovation
Eindhoven can be proud of all the technology that has emerged here. But the city needs artists to help us think about the effects and consequences of all these innovations. And more importantly,...
How designers from Eindhoven and Taipei learn from each other
Two designers from Taiwan are presenting their work in Microlab during Dutch Design Week in Eindhoven. Szu-Han Chen and Kuang-Yi Ku are designers in residence, an exchange program between Eindhoven...
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[DDW Special] BLANCCOLLECTIVE and the value of numbers
During Dutch Design Week, e52 will be introducing you to the festival’s Hidden Gems. Nine special designers who we feel are the stand-outs of this edition. A different Hidden Gem will enjoy...
3000m² Virtual reality. For real.
The largest VR Center in Europe will be opening on the seventh floor of the Veemgebouw on Strijp-S today. At a whopping 3000 square metres, the space will offer visitors the opportunity to play and...
DDW Solar Design Challenge
DDW’s Solar Design Challenge is aimed at designers with good ideas about the functional integration of solar cells in all kind of final products. These products can for example be components...
Top 10 Tech meets Design – where to go during DDW16?
Eindhoven is TDK – Technology, Design and Knowledge. So no wonder that the Dutch Design Week is also packed with Technology. To find your way through all these wonderful events, manifestations...
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[DDW Special] Hidden Gem 5: Jannissima’s handmade travel bags
During Dutch Design Week, e52 will be introducing you to the festival’s Hidden Gems. Nine special designers who we feel are the stand-outs of this edition. A different Hidden Gem will enjoy...
Manifestations: “We are the most critical part of the entire DDW”
If technology and design are connected anywhere during this Dutch Design Week, then it is at Manifestations. Curator Viola van Alphen didn’t have an easy job. Her exhibition is a series of...
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[DDW Special] Hidden Gem 4: Hyperspace Collective
During Dutch Design Week, e52 will be introducing you to the festival’s Hidden Gems. Nine special designers who we feel are the stand-outs of this edition. A different Hidden Gem will enjoy...
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[DDW Special] Hidden Gem 3: De Onkruidenier (“The Weedgrocer”)
During Dutch Design Week, e52 will be introducing you to the festival’s Hidden Gems. Nine special designers who we feel are the stand-outs of this edition. A different Hidden Gem will enjoy...
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[DDW Special] Hidden Gem 2: Fungy! by Roos Soetekouw
During Dutch Design Week, E52 will be introducing you to the festival’s Hidden Gems. Nine special designers who we feel are the stand-outs of this edition. A different Hidden Gem will enjoy...
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[DDW Special] The Hidden Gems of Dutch Design Week
During Dutch Design Week, E52 will be introducing you to the festival’s hidden gems. Nine special designers who we believe are the stand-outs of this edition. The hidden gems serie will be...
Top chef Sergio Herman to support designer Maarten Baas in next Dutch Design Week
During next Dutch Design Week (22-30 October) top chef Sergio Herman will support designer Maarten Baas for his interdisciplinary exhibition exploring the theme time. ‘Maarten Baas Makes Time”...
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