About our exhibition

Under the supervision of our newly appointed dean Caspar Chorus at the end of 2022, we have started our exciting journey to set up our very first (!) TU Delft Industrial Design Engineering (IDE) exhibition at Dutch Design Week 2023. But where do you begin?

To create a world where dreams are allowed to exist, was the dream of Creative Director and Curator Wing Yan Man. Together with curators Professor Paul Hekkert, Associate Professor Marco Rozendaal, Head of Communications Julia Candy and StudioLab manager Aadjan van der Helm, we have organized an internal design contest. Everyone was free to join, whether in group, individually, Bachelor or Master student, researcher and staff. The only condition was to describe their future world on themes we as IDE find important: Sustainability, Inclusivity, Health and Technology.

Utopian, dystopian, near future, unimaginable, physical, digital: we have read them all and in stages chosen the final 8 installations. These are from 23 designers varying from Bachelor to Master to PhD graduates, incorporating product, service and system design, either sprung from a courses, graduation project or just from scratch. With the help of our 16 mentors, we have embedded the theory and storytelling behind each.

Each installation has a powerful vision to tell and to make sure visitors of all ages would be able to participate, we have collaborated with design studio NorthernLight, production company Brandwacht en Meijer and graphic designer Luke James Miller to create an immersive experience.

For sustainability, the exhibition production will be given a new life via jutplaats.org and the pencils are donated to NGO Meneer Rick.

We are very proud of our collaborative effort, and we hope to have tickled your interest in Delft Design, to encourage you to dream big and take concrete steps to design for your future. Thank you for all the people who have contributed, designers, collaborators, IDE staff and the many happy visitors we have received.