Second and third prize Social Design Talent Awards for our students.
The added value of social design for entrepreneurial Eindhoven was the focus of the Social Design Talent Awards ceremony this morning. The city is increasingly facing complex social issues in various themes, including inclusion, housing, mobility, sustainability and care. These challenges require new perspectives and different collaborations.
Municipality of Eindhoven states: “We see the essential contribution of designers in these issues as well as find it important to offer new design talents a stage and connect them to entrepreneurs in our city. This year, we are once again presenting the Social Design Talent Award to up-and-coming talent. Students from Design Academy Eindhoven, TU/e Industrial Design and SintLucas competed for this title.” Students from SintLucas took the second and third prizes.
For over 10 years, the Municipality of Eindhoven has presented this council prize to a design talent during DDW. The projects of the nominated students each offer a solution to a social issue in the municipal domain.
Spatial design students Tijntje, Tess and Robin
In the Netherlands, there are about 250,000 people who are in wheelchairs. That’s 1 in 70 people. There are a lot of wheelchair users with a wheelchair bag they cannot reach. This is because the wheelchair bag usually hangs at the back of the wheelchair and, as a user, you can barely reach it. With our system, the user can easily pull the bag forward, giving the user back a great deal of independence.
Second prize
BA Visual Communication student Rein Vos
The gap between the events of World War II and the younger generations is widening. They no longer link it to modern times and their daily lives. More than half of high school students do believe they can learn from it. They just need more tangible teaching materials that make it easier to personally connect with history. The curriculum lets students make personal links between past, present and future in a special way. By following 5 simple steps, pupils are taken back in time. They are introduced to someone who contributed to their freedom during World War II. In this way, the teaching programme creates in a modern and unique way the opportunity to offer tangible lessons to the new generation of young people. In this way, it teaches them that the freedom they experience today cannot be taken for granted.
BA 3D Design student Merel van Summeren
‘A day with rheumatism’ is a board game that lets you experience the limited energy levels of a rheumatism patient. Throughout the game, you have to make various choices that cost you energy points. The board game is not about winning, but is a conversation tool. The game can hopefully make it easier for rheumatoid arthritis patients to talk about their symptoms/complaints with those around them.
Third prize