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DUTCH DESIGN AWARDS 2020

This year Dutch Design Week has taken the form of a virtual festival, focusing on the design of the future and the future of design. Design lovers can enjoy the extensive online program, including 3D exhibitions by designers around the world, until Sunday. And these designers have been nominated for a Dutch Design Award.Online Editor: Natasha Hendriks
Image: Dutch Design Week

Young designer

Screencatcher (Iris van Wees) is a 3D virtual design clothing collection. This collection is completely digitally designed in a virtual 3D environment, without the use of materials. The last physical pieces are made of PVC waste banners from festivals and events. Another part of the collection remains only digital, which you can experience with the use of Augmented Reality on your mobile device.

Design research

Insectology: Food for Buzz (Matilde Boelhouwer) is a series of artificial flowers that serve as an emergency food source for insects living in the city. Using spaces where normal flowers cannot grow, Food for Buzz aims to revive and restore insect populations. Together with engineers and scientists, these colorful man-made flowers were developed to be self-sustaining and continuously produce natural objects that are the ultimate attractions for those of the big 5.

Best commissioning

The new working environment of Triodos Bank-De Reehorst (Triodos Bank X RAU Architects X Arcadis X Ex Interiors) is a place where the ingredients of 'the new age' are palpable. The bank wanted to make its offices more than just a sustainable building. Triodos has realized an approachable meeting place where employees, customers and visitors feel welcome and that wants to be a connecting factor between culture, nature and economy. The design and production of materials are based on natural structures. The building as a whole can be reassembled and is made of sustainable and reused materials.

Fashion

SCHUELLER DE WAAL / SDW Studio creates fashion statements and capsule collections that explore and question the relevance of fashion, its possible manifestations and a more sustainable system. Fifty "models" made up of fashion professionals and volunteers came together for a big spring cleaning across from the 15th arrondissement's City Hall. They collected trash from the streets, dressed from head to toe in sumptuous, eclectic cleaning uniforms made from waste materials, garments from previous collections by SCHUELLER DE WAAL.

Product

Designed to independently collect waste from rivers, The Interceptor (The Ocean Cleanup X Fabrique) operates 100% on solar power. Waste enters The Interceptor via the natural flow of the river and is then collected on a conveyor belt. Each Interceptor is connected to the Internet, allowing The Ocean Cleanup to continuously monitor and collect data and automatically notify local operators when collection containers are full. The technology has been thought through with Fabrique at all levels, and the scale at which multiple Interceptors can operate is promising.