DDW Plan
After some consideration I decided on my venues, though these may be subject to change.
Exploring Materials & Materiality
TextileLab Amsterdam shapes the world of material research through a collaborative, open source approach, to create more sustainable alternatives to today’s material and production flows.
Enabling mutual-literacy between expertises, the learnings from crafts heritage-knowledge and techniques are brought together with access to today’s technologies, to create new craftsmanship practises and innovate traditional ones. Materials become the ground for shaping new realities. On display a variety of collaborative research projects in which material and materiality become the tangible medium to be able to research more sustainable systems, technical innovation, governance structures, values, the notion of ecosystem thinking, and the way we work together towards change.
The Growing Pavilion
How can we reduce the output of CO2? What do we do with waste products from agriculture? How do we deal with subsidence and rising sea levels? What is the aesthetic value of biobased materials? These are just a few of the many questions that the unique project The Growing Pavilion examines, before and during DDW 2019. Driven by a strong necessity and the need to stimulate a new way of thinking, Company New Heroes, Dutch Design Foundation and partners from the world of design, architecture, construction, government and education, have taken on the challenge to realize an iconic structure. A pavilion that consists entirely of biobased materials. Sourced as locally as possible, because the Brabant soil and knowledge are extremely rich. For ten days this landmark can be seen and experienced at the heart of the DDW; on the Ketelhuisplein in Eindhoven.
The Symbiocene Forest
Hidden in a green realm in Strijp lies BioArt Laboratories - a repurposed historical military complex in a dense forest. The breeding ground for many award winning innovations. It is a refreshing place where things are done differently. A place, unfinished, unpolished, provocative, and alive.
CHEMARTS
The exhibition showcases various future-oriented concepts that are the result of research conducted into new bio-based materials by students, researchers, lecturers and professors from Aalto University. CHEMARTS is based on continuous and inspiring collaboration between design and scientific material research.
The Object is Absent
The Object is Absent is a radical experiment. It is a theatre, a concert, a cinema, a gym and an exhibition in one. It is a playful gathering to learn and do, by designers and everyone. The Object is Absent is a manifesto to dematerialize design by optimizing optimistic human behaviour.
Meet the Future and Fiffy the Robot
Meet the future with eight hands-on experiments in the big picture of human civilisation. This year, with Fiffy the robot as our special guest.
“How do we want to live in the future?” With almost eight billion people and counting, we have become a serious heavyweight. Not the forests, not the oceans, not the atmosphere, it is us people responsible for the future of our planet.
In the so-called Anthropocene, human civilisation is considered to have the dominating geophysical influence on our planet, including the responsibility for its future. Having pushed the planetary envelope, we are now confronted with critical issues such as climate change, resource efficiency, biodiversity and CO2 emissions.