Graduation Show 2022

Design Academy Eindhoven proudly presents the Graduation Show 2022. Taking place for the first time in the Microtuin building during Dutch Design Week (22-30 October ), this year features more than 200 Bachelor and Master’s projects, and an engaging live performance programme.

Our graduates respond to a world that’s threatened by environmental crises, accelerated by digitisation, and rewritten through new understandings of history. Together, the Graduation Show 2022 forms an imprint of the shared concerns they have about the world they practice in, while it also shows what’s possible through critical, caring, and fantastical acts of design.

PHYSICAL EXHIBITION

Formerly a telecommunications centre, the Microtuin building is located in the inner city of Eindhoven, and is composed of many curious spaces. The Graduation Show winds through these spaces on a single path, where relationships and tensions build between the projects, allowing visitors to experience the questions, fascinations, anxieties and passions that connect the students, and form the design culture at the DAE.

THE STAGE

Our graduates engage with global issues through an increasingly diverse range of presentation formats, performances and hybrid practices. New temporalities and spatialities are needed to present this type of work to the world. Emerging from Dr Ian Biscoe’s Transdisciplinary Design Networks Professorship, The Stage brings together design, scenography, theatre, film and television techniques, along with Extended Reality (XR) and gaming technologies, to create a digitally mediated environment with a global reach. The Stage also hosts The Arena and the Graduation Show’s public programming.

→ View all of the archived recordings on our Vimeo page

THE ARENA

The Arena is the live public programme of the Graduation Show 2022. It provides space for the graduating designers to present their work while engaging in conversations about the ins and outs of design.

ARENA PANEL

Six Arena hosted panel discussions will take place on The Stage. The conversations will revolve around themes shared by this year’s graduates. Join live as an audience member at The Stage, located in the Graduation Show or online via the livestream.

ARENA RADIO

In collaboration with Elevator Radio, the Arena Radio will be broadcasting daily from the Graduation Show. The programme consists of live talks, sonic experimentations, interviews, and other forms of exchange. Tune in online below daily from 11AM and / or via Elevator Radio.

Visuals by Timon van der Hijden (BA 2008), featured artworks by Bryan Stoel (BA 2022)

INCLUSIVITY AND ACCESS AT GS22

The Graduation Show 2022 ‘Microtuin’ building is fully accessible for people with disabilities. It includes elevators for those who need them, and disabled bathroom facilities. There are breastfeeding rooms and first aid equipment is onsite. Only service dogs are allowed in the building. Please ask one of the many students that are wearing a ‘?’ symbol if you have questions or need assistance.

→ You can download the Microtuin floorplan here

PARKING

The closest parking options are:
Eindhoven Parkeerterrein: 350m, 4 min walk
Q-park Kennedyplein: 200m, 2 min walk

Touring cars cannot access the Microtuin area. Busses can stop at the bus stop on the John F Kennedylaan, across from the KvK (Chamber of Commerce) building.

COVID-19

We follow the latest official RIVM measures and advice.

TICKETS

During DDW, presentations by designers can be seen at more than 100 locations in Eindhoven, including the Graduation Show 2022. Tickets can be purchased via DDW online; at the Graduation Show GS22 ‘Microtuin’ building; or at various other locations around Eindhoven, such as Klokgebouw, Microlab Hall, Fuutlaan, Van Abbemuseum and Sectie-C.

Once purchased, your ticket is exchanged for a wristband which gives you access to the DDW locations and events. Tickets that are purchased online can be exchanged for wristbands at the Graduation Show 2022, and other exchange points throughout Eindhoven. Children up to the age of 12 can enter DDW events for free.

For more information about locations, purchasing tickets, exchange points, and opening hours, please visit ddw.nl/en/tickets.

HOUSE RULES

Respect the work of the graduates
Respect the visitors, this is a shared space
Harassment in any shape or form will not be tolerated
No food is allowed in the exhibition spaces
Alcohol and drugs are prohibited on the site
Violence, drugs, alcohol, or carrying weapons/dangerous objects will lead to immediate eviction
Smoking (including e-cigarettes) is only allowed in the open air (courtyard or entrance/exit areas)
This show is a one-way route. If you want to go back you must go via the entrance again
No flyers/promotion allowed on or around the site without written permission from the organisation
Image and sound recordings will be made on the site, and will be shown publicly
Access is only granted with a DDW wristband or DAE wristband
No pets are allowed, with exception of assistance dogs
Failure to follow directions from security personnel may result in eviction
Management has the right to close the door for safety reasons
In regards to safety within the building, the instructions of security personnel must be followed at all times