Dutch Design Week announces full programme for 2017 edition
Dezeen promotion: an exhibition of Design Academy Eindhoven graduates, Dezeen's Good Design for a Bad World talks progamme, and a robot research centre are among the 600 events taking place during this year's Dutch Design Week.
Dezeen is media partner for Dutch Design Week, which takes place from 21 to 29 October 2017 in Eindhoven.
The Design Academy Eindhoven graduate show will return to Dutch Design Week this year. Photograph by Cleo Goossens
The city is home to one of the most famous design schools in the world, Design Academy Eindhoven, so the week-long festival brings together a wealth of promising young designers.
The full programme ? this year centred around the theme of "stretch" ? has now been announced, and will see over 600 exhibitions and events taking place across the week. The city's Van Abbemuseum will also host a programme of exhibitions during Dutch Design Week. Photo by Tommy Köhlbrugge
"The programme management sees multiple trends this year," said the organisers. "Hot items are the influence of digitalisation on and robotisation of our society."
"Social issues and the circular economy also get plenty of attention and there is a special role for crafts: the rediscovery of old manufacturing methods or the development of entirely new applications for them."
Studios, workshops and galleries in the Sectie-C area will also take part in the week-long festival. Photograph by Iris Rijskamp
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