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Dutch Design Week in Eindhoven is undoubtedly one of the absolute highlights of the design year, a kaleidoscopic vision for the future of design. One of the most popular events of the week is the graduation show at the Design Academy Eindhoven aka DAE with people lining up outside well before the doors open to de Witte Dame.
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During the past years we visited a number of exhibitions that in different capacities presented ideas and speculations on the future.In Panorama Konstantin Grcic draws from his own works, Sense No-sense examine recent Dutch design experience and technology and The Fab Mind consider design approaches to social issues. Closer to home, curator Petra Lilja departed from recent resurrection of craft for The Future is Handmade, outlining the current state of craft-oriented design and studio production. It’s a diverse collection of obejcts ranging from more traditional craft (Carsten Nilsson) to conceptual projects (Studio Formafanstasma) using newly developed manufacturing methods (Staffan Holm).
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Studies in Motion at Lunds Konsthall is the first exhibition of rAndom International’s work in Sweden and it is also the first time showing the newly commissioned work What It Isn’t. Founded in London in 2005 by Stuart Wood, Florian Ortkrass and Hannes Hoch rAndom International has become known for technically complex and interactive installations, notably the immensely popular installations of Rain Room at Barbican (2012) and later at MoMA (2013). The exhibition at Lunds Konsthall contains three works; Self-Portrait (2010), Future self (2012) and What It Isn’t (2014), three very different installations that never the less presents variations on similar intertwining themes.
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