Graduation Show 2021

An index is a guide or symbol used to navigate everything from books and Html to stock markets and colour swatches. It is also the finger used to point, notably at touchscreens. This year, the Design Academy Eindhoven Graduation Show 2021 presents a navigational index as an invitation to explore the themes, keywords, materials and methodologies of the 163 graduation projects.

Rather than an overarching narrative, the index is a tool to explore how different readings and realities emerge by design. In an index, there is a cause-and-effect relationship between the sign and the signified; each word is symbolic of a connection to a larger context. In the same way, the projects themselves may each be read as a symbolic index of the design field, current times, and possible futures. The projects acknowledge that reality is not a universal given or a consolidated narrative but a contested territory; one that is open to rereading, alteration and reinterpretation.

THE STAGE

As graduates investigate the role of design in shaping reality through an increasingly diverse range of practices, we need new ways of presenting these expanded definitions of design to the world.

The Stage is the Graduation Show's new platform, offering a digitally-mediated environment alongside the physical exhibition of projects and the Arena's programme of live talks and debates challenging and extending contemporary design discourse.

Twenty-five of the 163 graduates are presenting on The Stage. It also forms the site for the Arena; the Graduation Show’s programme of live talks and debates. (Live Broadcast Camera by Erick Hille).

THE ARENA

The Arena is a live talks, debate and performance platform that takes place at the centre of the annual DAE Graduation Show. It provides space for emerging designers to not only present their work but to also engage in conversations about the ins and outs of design.

ARENA RADIO

In collaboration with Elevator Radio

CRITICAL DIVERSITY CONFERENCE

This two-day event will include keynote lectures and panel discussions following three themes — Breathing, Becoming and Belonging. The intention is to stimulate theories and practices that can transform cultures that create an unequal distribution of power and privilege in higher education and wider society.

DDW STUDY INFORMATION TALKS

Curious about the Bachelor or Master programme at Design Academy Eindhoven? Join us during Dutch Design Week!

Come and meet us during daily BA and MA information sessions during DDW from Monday 18 October until Friday 22 October. The DAE study information talks will be held at het Beursgebouw, Lardinoisstraat 10. The sessions will take place from Monday to Friday. Our doors are open to anyone who is interested in joining our Bachelor or Master programme.

PRACTICAL INFORMATION

Graduation Show 16 – 24 October 2021 Beursgebouw, Lardinoisstraat 10

Press preview 16 Oct 10 AM - 11 AM. Please register before 15 October via

General opening hours: 16 Oct 1 PM - 6 PM 17 – 24 Oct 11 AM - 6 PM

Critical Diversity Conference GS21 - Beursgebouw & online 18 - 19 Oct 7 PM - 10 PM

The Stage 16 – 24 October 2021 Beursgebouw (Lardinoisstraat 10) Livestream, online

INCLUSIVITY AND ACCESS AT GS21

The GS21 Beursgebouw location is accessible for people with disabilities. Mobility parking spaces are located around the corner from the GS21 entrance. To enter the exhibition, there is a ramp at the entrance containers, and there is also a disabled bathroom on the ground floor inside. The projects on the balcony can be visited via an elevator.

COVID-19 MEASURES FOR CONFERENCE EVENTS

As conference events at GS21 are seated, we are obliged to check your DCC (Digital Corona Certificate) with a scanner. If you do not have a DCC or are from outside the EU, you will need a negative test result to attend. This can be arranged at: https://www.testenvoortoegang.org

TICKETS

During DDW, presentations by designers can be seen at more than 100 locations in Eindhoven, including the Graduation Show 2021. Tickets can be purchased via DDW online or at various locations around Eindhoven, and can be exchanged once for a wristband.

The closest DDW ticket sales point to GS21 Beursgebouw is at the Central Station, Stationsplein. Tickets purchased online can also be converted into a wristband at this location. This ticket point is open daily from 10:00-18:00.

Alternative ticket/wristband sales locations include Klokgebouw, Microlab Hall, Fuutlaan, Van Abbemuseum and Sectie-C.

The wristband gives you 9 days access to Klokgebouw, Things that Matters at Microlab Hall, Graduation Show 2021, Van Abbemuseum, Kazerne and New Order of Fashion Lab, among many others. Children up to the age of 12 can enter DDW events for free.

For more information, opening hours and to purchase tickets online, please visit https://ddw.nl/en/tickets.