DESIGN & THE CITY
About this Event
Helix, DDF and DDE present:
Design & The City
Around the year 2000, design secured a definitive and prominent place in the arts, in education, in the business world, and within government. Building on the traditions of industrial design, product design and graphic design, the field of design expanded to include social design, information design, experience design and interactive design. In 2013, designer Lucas Verwey said: “Everything has become design; design is everywhere; we find ourselves in a design bubble.”
If everything has become design, what exactly is design anymore? Does design need a new focus, a new definition, and maybe also a new mission?
During this evening, we will discuss these questions. We will also take stock of how design has developed within Eindhoven following the near-move of the Design Academy Eindhoven to Roermond in 2024. At that time, it became painfully clear that the design ecosystem in Eindhoven is vulnerable. A new organization, Design Development Eindhoven (DDE), has been installed to establish a stronger foundation for design, locally and nationally.
Where do we stand two years later? Does Eindhoven have a stronger case now for being the design capital of the Netherlands—and perhaps even of the world? What can this stronger foundation offer Eindhoven-based designers? Are we sufficiently self-critical about our design success?
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