Reuse is the watchword taken to the extreme through experimentation and technology in this Dutch Design Week to see until October 27, 2024 with center a Eindhoven in the Netherlands.
The event organized by Dutch Design Foundation presents the future of design and new schools of thought. There city of Dutch design par excellencehome to the Academy of the same name, becomes an international showcase for new ideas and the changes that are becoming inevitable. The theme of the 2024 edition, Real Unrealaddresses how we navigate all the different realities that the world is made up of today. It’s impossible to see everything due to the large number of projects on display in a city that can however be easily explored on foot or by bicycle. Here’s what we liked about this Design Week which was very popular with the public, which this year had as its “guides” Julia Watson (Lo-TEK Institute), Bas van de Poel (Modem) and André Doxey (Nike and LEGO) .
COLLECTIVE EXHIBITIONS
Fourth edition of Class of 24collective of students’ graduation projects of sixteen Dutch and international design academies, including Vilnius Academy of Arts, École Camondo, IED – European Institute of Design. There is also the Angewandte Industrial Design, Vienna with the projects created for Diez Reisen – Right Of Way For Vacation Fun by students of German Stefan Diezwhich we had seen during the recent Vienna Design Week. The aim of the exhibition is to highlight the importance of education in this space and to give the next generation of designers a platform for a wider audience.
Il degree show of the students of the Eindhoven Academy expresses in 182 projects “the ways in which design can perform in an era of radical changes”. The students not only present their graduation projects but exhibit them with a series of videos, sound effects and debates.
Of note are two recovery operations from the past: the vases Bohemian Crystal in which Marie Kolářová applies traditional Czech glassmaking processes to waste glass panels and Abandoned Artistry by Gaurav Jhagiagi, a celebration of Mughal-era craftsmanship lost following the British colonization of India. Buoy 303 Of Arthur Hainz is a session that explores the beauty of aging in nautical infrastructure, born from the designer’s personal sailing experiences as a tribute to the crumbling buoys in Hong Kong harbor. Reclaming Her Of Carolina Pérez-Moreno Silva it is instead an exploration of female sexuality through body jewelry that accentuates personal characteristics often hidden in shame, transforming them into a testimony of power and beauty in pink. Symbiosis of Things Of Valentin Avon is the development of a hybrid material of textile and metal fibresmuch admired in the exhibition, which combines the flexibility of fabric with the structural properties of steel and copper (in collaboration with Textielmuseum | TextielLab).
The modular wooden system is extremely light, almost bordering on precariousness Tension Connection by Johan Karrebaek Thun and the leather inlays of the seat BalTash’ by Emma Batsheva Cohen. The armchair, on the other hand, is sculptural Flat Twin 602 inspired by the layers of the Citroën 2CV car engine, designed by Floor Leermakers. In the end I Spy…, the furnishings for which Lotte Schoots has adapted painting techniques to imitate wood. A hyper-reality of knots and grains that are not found in nature. The public is asked to vote among ten of the new designers presented by winners of previous editions for this edition’s awards.
Sixth edition for Isola Design. The project platform founded by Gabriele Cavallaro brings its community into the largest indoor skatepark in the Netherlands. Four exhibitions in this place of urban culture, involving 100 exhibitors around this year’s theme, This Future is Currently Unavailable. The exposition Disclosure collects unique collectibles and contemporary products, including those that combine digital craftsmanship and innovation; Forms Unfolding focuses on the essential elements of functional design ranging from furniture to furnishing accessories; Routes to Roots it is a journey through design from the Middle East, North Africa and those remote places that preserve the planet’s heritage. In the end The Floor is Yours exhibits products mainly made by Dutch designers.
Anton Rahlwes and Nina Sieverding, already curators of the beautiful selection of projects Focus: Trash seen at the recent Vienna Design Week 24, they bring you here The Magic Touch: Designing Togetherness selection of works by design graduates from various German universities.
VISITS TO THE CREATIVE WORKSHOPS
Piet Hein Eek celebrates ten years of its carpentry workshop which over the years has become a true creative center for its production and also for the exhibition of young designers. Among his new products, the Wood Chip objects, with which the Dutch designer has made a virtue of necessity: wood waste that by law could not be burned has been transformed into new objects. And then an exercise in style between Piet Hein Eek and Maarten Baas, who despite having been friends for many years had never worked together. Baas burned a classic reclaimed wood cabinet from Hein Eek and the result lives on the double lexicon of friendship and design. In the art center, the young people’s pieces are exhibited, such as the wooden seats of Sho Ota e Nemo Mulderthe inlaid tables Shigeki Yamamotothe vessels of Cengiz Hartmann the lamps of A.N. Design. Teun Zwetsa graduate of the Design Academy Eindhoven, brings here his pop-romantic objects made of wood and then lacquered in bright colours. E Dirk Duif here he exhibits his fairy-tale, out-of-scale objects, of which we saw a hint during the last Milan Design Week at Rossana Orlandi.
The creatives Kiki and Joost they open the doors of their laboratory with a new exhibition space also equipped with a garden where, in addition to their now recognizable pieces, they will also make room for the works of young talents.
THE EXHIBITION TO SEE
The SOILS exhibition until November 24th is interesting Van Abbe Museum, which requires an explanation on site: the exhibition hides behind the beauty the dramas of production and man’s (often) hostile and complicated relationship with the land. The reflection for a renewed connection with our soil, which inevitably passes through the issues of pollution and climate change.
THE SITE TO VISIT
Still in the green field, BioArt Laboratories presents The Symbiocene Forest in which fifty-three designers exhibit in what was a military site with World War II bunkerused to award licenses for tanks. Today, in a more poetic version, it is scenery in the forest of green projects halfway between experimentation and land art, between organic waste fermented with mycelia to create building materials or fabrics or the search for alternative resources of natural light.
Dutch Design Week 2024
dove: Eindhoven, Netherlands
when: from 19 to 27 October 2024
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