Read the most recent WDE Spotlight with Shaakira Jassat
In WDE Spotlight, we give the floor to several designers from the Embassies. This time we speak with Shaakira Jassat, part of the Embassy of Water en Circular & Biobased Building in 2021. What is her background? What inspires her? What does she hope to achieve with her work? You’ll read about it in this Q&A!
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Visit The Exploded View at Floriade 2022
The Exploded View Beyond Building, one of the showstoppers of Dutch Design Week 2021 is an exhibition in the form of a house that consists entirely of biobased materials, circular building methods and practical stories. Here you can see and experience what is already possible in the field of sustainable building and how it changes the (construction) world. To be visited from now until 9 October at Floriade, in Almere.
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We have launched a new series of WDE Talks in Pakhuis de Zwijger!
In eight episodes, we dive deeper into the subject matter of the Embassies and talk to partners and designers about various topics. The guests briefly look back on Dutch Design Week 2021 and discuss what's next. On this page, you can find all the Talks. Please note that these talks are in Dutch.
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Listen to our podcast The Tekentafel
In De Tekentafel, journalist Niels Guns talks to various guests every month about the power of design in solving social issues. How do you get the most out of a project with designers, what is successful collaboration and what can it offer an organisation? We will find out for you in De Tekentafel, a collaboration between Eindhoven Design District and World Design Embassies.
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New focus for DDF director Martijn Paulen
After nine years, Martijn Paulen has decided to focus entirely on the new strategic development of Dutch Design Foundation (DDF) and steps down from his role as frontman of Dutch Design Week (DDW). Besides DDW, DDF has continued to develop itself with World Design Embassies and What if Labs on the power of design for societal changes. In addition to the crown jewel DDW, the organisation wants to make a solid commitment to these. Paulen will be focusing on this development and has decided to take the opportunity to make room for new creative leadership at DDW. has decided to seize the opportunity to make room for new creative leadership at DDW.
Read moreWorld Design Embassies deploys the power of design in the development of new perspectives and concrete directions to societal challenges. In open coalitions, we work with partners and designers on the future.
Choose your Embassy
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Embassy of Inclusive Society
A plea for a more inclusive design field -
Embassy of Safety
Surprising safety: new behaviour for a safer society -
Embassy of Health
Chronic Health : vital changes for a caring society -
Embassy of Urban Mobility
Cities for people -
Embassy of Circular & Biobased Building
A biobased house as a starting point for a different value system -
Embassy of Water
Water cohabitation: how we live together with water -
Embassy of Food
The supermarket of the future -
Embassy of Rethinking Plastic
A new approach for plastics
