Dezeen promotion: this year's Dutch Design Week will focus on makers and the creative process, and will include exhibitions, lectures, prize ceremonies, networking events and debates.
Celebrating its 15th edition, Dutch Design Week is expecting over 2,500 participants to exhibit products, concepts and experiments across 100 locations in Eindhoven.
The Mind the Step exhibition will return for this year's festival, including works by Delft, Twente and Eindhoven Universities of Technology. Image courtesy of Sjoerd Eickmans
Dezeen is media partners for this year's event, which has the theme The Making Of. The festival will focus on the making process, revealing how everyday products and services are made.
"We show that Dutch designers are critical and enterprising, make a lot themselves, but also tackle social issues," said design week director Martijn Paulen.
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"With The Making Of, we stimulate and appreciate both the investigative process and the end result," he added. "In doing this, DDW offers a look behind the scenes, but most especially a preview."
Focused on the makers and making process, the event will also feature the Dutch Invertuals exhibition. Image courtesy of Boudewijnbollmann
The organisers have collaborated with design agency Fabrique to create a public campaign that invites the public to experience,...