As many other events, this year's Dutch Design Week will be held mainly online. The virtual platform is a worth doing experience for its curated contents and immersive, pristine interface. From 17 ot 25 October it will be possible to participate to talks, live chats with designers, virtual tours, live TV, news and video exhibitions. For anyone who has felt the design FOMO in these corona times, here is the right antidote: all conferences and events are recorded and can be seen any time. As one of the official partners, Domus was invited to chose a theme for a virtual tour and select 10 representatives. We went for "Brave New Talents", or better say: who are the young designers at the DDW20 that are effectively representing this era of change, confusion and possible opportunities?
Dutch Design Week 2020: Brave New Talents curated by Domus
As one of the partners of this year's edition of the DDW 2020, held mostly online, Domus was invited to curate a virtual tour: we decided to foster the work of young designers that are representative of this era of change.
Dutch Design Week 2020
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- Marianna Guernieri
- 19 October 2020
- ddw.nl
Brave New Talents
When paradigms shift it is hard to look at design with the same old eyes. We have new questions, new perplexities and new certainties. We might even ask ourselves, timidly: do we still need design? When we look at the work of some young talents that are bravely riding the crazy horse of our era, the answer is: probably yes. So let them take us by the hand through this strange world, with rising awareness and potential opportunities. We have selected ten new talents that have presented their work in this virtual arena.
Projects range from the matches and mismatches between humans and technology to a future where we are in symbiosis with a multitude of ecosystems; they question the dogma of time, envision peculiar systems to preserve individual biological identities and produce soft materials to reimagine the way we dress, present our bodies and reveal (or not) our personality. Fungi becomes part of fashion that turns into biofashion, the language of plants enters our daily alphabet and we can design our own protein resources. Some of them look at the past to strenghten their presence in the future, by drawing upon ancient arts techniques and translating the design knowledge of the recent past into videogames to better understand and navigate those concepts.
Looking at these projects can be scary or fascinating, it can propel attraction or rather distance, but this is our present and we see it through their genuine visions. Being them technologies, nature and flora, or ancient technical wisdom, all these works share an attitude towards reconstruction and tranformation, an innovative alchemy of materials that appear familiar and yet not seen before.
- Dutch Design Week 2020
- 17-25 October 2020
- ddw.nl
Hosted by Manifestations, a selection of graduates that in a funny, spectacular or controversial way, examine the (mis) matches between people and technology and ask how technology can contribute to a sweeter, more humane world.
Stealth is a surveillance proof multi-factor authentication interface in the form of a mouth wearable. This experimental design explores the mouth as a gateway to safeguarding our identity with its unique biological and mobile properties.
One of the major problems in the fashion industry is water pollution caused by the harmful textile dyes. Therefore, Ilse Kremer focuses on how biodesign can reduce the use of harmful textile dyes by the use of fungi.
In this interactive digital art project, you hop on a virtual 2D and 3D tour to a city called ‘No Stop City’. The project is an homage to Archizoom Associati (1966-1974), the iconic Italian architectural and design studio.
A design strategy based platform to stimulate people's imagination to create their own protein resources. It aims to explore how design can be used in combination with cellular agriculture to achieve a sustainable eating future.
Materiality doesn’t provide a sense of belonging, but it’s healthy to own objects that help people feel grounded. These soft, customisable and multifunctional items are a personal reflection of forms and materials, perhaps a piece of the designer's DNA, but surely a message of possibilities.
‘Relativistic Objects’ challenges contemporary behaviours and life habits related to the way we conceive and perceive the passing of time. These objects speak to anyone interested in redefining the way we approach and experience our lives, and emphasize the importance of physical interaction.
A vision of the future in which we explore the language of trees through fungi and live in symbiosis with the forest. The designed tools would allow us to listen to the communication between trees. Insight in this communication can help us improve environmental health.
Humans have become "blind" to plants, which may be in turn caused by a lack of knowledge of plants themselves and a reason for disconnection to nature. Identifying communication as an issue, Talking Plant Sense promotes the appreciation of plants & their abilities through the creation of new words.
A light series inspired by Korean Old Portrait technique, Known as depicting one’s inner side by back painting skill. Representing the invisible captivated me to contextualize the technique through a light design with a subject of portrait.