GastGastgeber during RUHR.2010, World Expo Shanghai, the start of Dutch Design WorkSpace, India mapping, a portal website and the Dutch Profiles world tour.
The DutchDFA programme for 2010 will manifest itself in China in Shanghai, Shenzhen and Beijing. Attention will be paid to the follow-up of promising connections made during the Business of Design Week 2008 and 2009 in Hong Kong and Shenzhen.
A multi-disciplinary education / research project will take off in 2010 with as projected Chinese partners CAFA/Central Academy of Fine Arts (graphic design, architecture), Tsinghua University (industrial design) and BIFT/ Beijing Institute of Fashion & Technology (fashion).
Starting point for the content of the exhibition ‘Taking a Stance’ is a dialogue between four Chinese and four Dutch designers, between two different design cultures and two different societies facing similar urgent issues.
A three-year support programme will be officially opened in the summer of 2010. This incubator programme in Shanghai supports Dutch companies entering the Chinese market, as well as Chinese designers who are interested in developing a closer relationship with the Netherlands.
Double Infinity opens in May 2010 and comprises of an exhibition, a book and a series of performances and lectures centred around John Körmeling, the chief architect of the Dutch pavilion at the World Expo 2010.
The exhibition at the Dutch Culture Centre shows a large model that reveals the culmination of thirty years of fast-forward planning as result of the research BARC. It forms the basis of a public forum in which the ideas are scrutinized, with realization of the final concept as an ultimate goal.
The DutchDFA programme for India in 2010 is focused on the strengthening and expansion of networks with Indian designers, educational institutions and design organisations, as well as on acquiring further knowledge about local social and market demand in India.
DDFA research: the results of the fact finding mission (or mapping) are meant to support and stimulate the development of an exciting and effective programme for exchange between India and the Netherlands on a cultural, social and economical level.
The main theme of the DutchDFA programme in 2010 for Germany will be further exploration of the German market for Dutch design. In close collaboration with the BNO, BNA, BNI and MODINT the EVD will do an in-depth sector- and region-specific market reconnaissance for the three Dutch design disciplines.
From April 8 through to May 2 the Red Dot Museum in Essen will host the ‘best of the best’ of Dutch Design, the winners and finalists of the Dutch Design Awards 2009.
In 2010 the 53 municipalities in the Ruhr area will jointly be European Capital of Culture. The GastGastgeber project consists of temporary mobile accommodation that forms the link between the Dutch cultural contributions to the RUHR.2010 manifestation. Top Dutch designers Jurgen Bey (Oberhausen) and Gilian Schrofer (Dortmund) are curators of GastGastgeber
The Dutch creative companies in the field of design, fashion and architecture lack information about the concrete opportunities of the German market. An in-depth research is needed to learn about what steps they should take to successfully enter the German design, fashion and architecture market.
As part of its wider communications strategy, the DutchDFA parallel programme will in 20010 focus on a website as portal to all info important for exchange, the travelling cinema Dutch Profiles the continuation of 2009 start ups.
Dutch Profiles is a series of short documentaries on the conceptual and research-based background of well-known icons of Dutch design. The videos are available worldwide in low-res via the designated website and YouTube channel. High-res versions are available for use as part of lectures, exhibitions and business presentations.
What has been achieved in the past year and what's on the programme for 2010? The first of Dutch Design Fashion Architecture’s annual reports: ‘1/4’ was presented on April 9.
In an exhibition at Zollverein in Essen from August 28 to October 19, Norm=Form tells the history of standardization on the basis of standardizing in consumer products, interior design and
visual communication from around 1900 till now (e.g. Peter Behrens, Piet Zwart, Wim Crouwel, Otl Aicher).
From June 9 to 13, (Un)limited Dutch Design will show The Netherlands as an open-design country in an international context during DMY International Design Festival in Berlin.
Design Yatra is a two day design conference taking place on September 3 and 4, 2010. The programme includes several Dutch designers that will speak on the theme Order and Chaos.
After a very succesfull turn in 2009, a delegation of Dutch design professionals return to Shanghai International Creative Industry Week from September 15 to 19 of 2010.
