DDW13: Design Academy Eindhoven Graduate Show

The Design Academy Eindhoven graduate show was definitely one of the highlights of Dutch Design Week. Every year the Keep An Eye Foundation awards four students a grant of €11,000 to continue the work they’ve started at the academy. I spoke to five of the finalists about their work.

Luc van Hoeckel created a kit for the small scale production of ointment for his graduate project. He said: “I will send this box to an NGO in Uganda and they can make all the tools with local workshops to stimulate the local economy and then they can start small scale production.”

I also loved Daniel Costa and Dienke Dekker’s collaborative project combining stoneware and porcelain. Daniel said: “When we showed [our research] to professional ceramicists, they thought we were crazy, because porcelain and stoneware is never combined in industry because they behave so differently – it normally cracks.”

Video by Katie Treggiden and Daniel Nelson.

Our trip to Dutch Design Week was supported by Airbnb.com.

Katie Treggiden is a journalist, author, and podcaster championing a circular approach to design. She is the founder of Making Design Circular, a membership community for designer-makers embracing the circular economy, and the author of five books, including Wasted: When Trash Becomes Treasure. A regular contributor to publications including The Guardian and Crafts, she explores the role of craft, sustainability, and circularity in shaping the future of design.

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