International design research meets Dutch design practice

On Friday November 4^th participants of the IASDR conference got the opportunity to meet Dutch design practice. On this day, 4 day programmes were organized each visiting two companies dealing with Dutch design in a variety of fields: interaction design, product design, architecture, and more. During this visits interaction between participants and the companies is key: how can we contribute to each other?

Evaluation

A group of 60 participants visited ten companies, and the visits have been evaluated. Some quotes from both participants and companies: "A nice mix of different design companies", "This was fun to do!", "The programme and the visit were fantastic! I really appreciated!.
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Design United

This event is an activity of Design United, Platform for Dutch Research in Design, www.designunited.nl, and sponsored by Agentschap NL.

Waag Society - Institute for Art, Science and Technology
Waag Society uses creative technology and technological creativity for cultural and societal change. The foundation researches, develops concepts, pilots and prototypes and acts as an intermediate between the arts, science and the media. Waag Society cooperates with cultural, public and private parties. Waag Society consists of a lab structure, counting six different terrains: Creative Care Lab, Creative Learning Lab, Open Design Lab, Wetlab, Future Internet Lab, Urban Realities Lab. Waag Society is housed in two historic monuments in Amsterdam: the Waag building - a sixteenth century city gate that once was home to several guilds amongst which that surgeons - and Pakhuis de Zwijger - a 1930's industrial warehouse. Waag Society is one of the founders of Creative Commons Netherlands and has a strong focus to let user groups participate in the design of new technologies.
» www.waag.org

Lunch at: Unga Toys
UNGA toys is an international orientated toy design- and development studio based in Amsterdam. The UNGA-group consists of young-minded, toy-loving, creative, and dedicated people that all share the equal passion; creating high play value toys for global premium brands. UNGA is a one-stop-shop for offline an online cases and our Amsterdam establishment contains an in-house online game- and website studio. In addition, our Hong Kong subsidiary is engaged in engineering and manufacturing our designs.
» www.ungatoys.com

Booreiland - Design & strategy for web, print and meta
Hi there! We are Booreiland, a Dutch design studio that loves to discover meaningful ways to communicate brands. We are specialized in design and strategy for web services, print campaigns and Meta Products. Meta Products are web enabled product-service networks that help people, products and services connect in new ways. By combining the offline and the online world, we want to make the web a little bit more meaningful for everyone. We work on both client assignments and our own projects.
» www.booreiland.nl
» www.metaproducts.nl

Spark Design & Innovation
"Design and develop meaningful and sustainable breakthrough products" Spark design & innovation is a leading Dutch product development agency, involved with inventing, designing and realizing innovative products for more than 15 years. We are a team of 25 professionals with a passion for innovation and design. We use our knowledge of design, usability, technology and business to create sustainable and meaningful products. With an approach that is specifically tuned to each project and client. We give life to innovations that build brands, create competitive advantage and result in commercial success.
» www.sparkdesign.nl

Lunch at: V2_
V2_ Institute for the Unstable Media, founded in 1981, is an interdisciplinary center for art and media technology in Rotterdam. V2_is doing research at the interface of art, technology and society. V2_presents, produces, archives and publishes about art made with new technologies and encourages the debate on these issues. V2_ offers a platform where artists, scientists, developers of software and hardware, researchers and theorists from various disciplines can share their findings.
» www.v2.nl

Fabrique
Fabrique is a multidisciplinary agency since 1992 and one of the leading companies in the field of brand, communication and interaction design in The Netherlands. We develop visions, strategies and resources, preferably in an integrated manner. Over more than 85 enthusiastic artists, engineers and storytellers work with pleasure and passion on a wide range of assignments for consumer brands, service-sector companies, the government, education, the entertainment industry and cultural institutions.
» www.fabrique.nl

Q42 - w00tcamp with Fabrique
Q42 is a leading technical web development agency from the Netherlands. We are passionate about the web and have spent 10 years creating a culture of technical excellence focused on providing clients with the most user friendly sites and apps. Clients come to us because we live and breathe the internet. We don't just build stuff, we also know what to build and why.
All of this comes once a year together in a two-day geek-apotheosis: w00tcamp! This year, w00tcamp is organized together with Fabrique. A passion two day-event where people go crazy in teams on passion-projects.
» www.q42.nl

Lunch at: Muzus
Muzus is a user-centered design agency, which means Muzus always takes the end-users of products and services as a starting point of their design projects. Muzus is an expert in applying design research techniques like contextmapping and co-creation. But most of all, Muzus stands out by their ability to translate the research findings into solutions for products and services. This results in rich designs, which fit the needs, dreams and wishes of the end-users.
» www.muzus.nl

Lunch at: Flex / Innovation
FLEX/the INNOVATIONLAB is one of the leading Dutch design agencies for industrial design and structural packaging.
Our international design team is creating innovations which are significant contributions to our clients' strategic objectives, to the quality of life of people and to a more sustainable society. With our clients we want to create a new reality, something that aspires to truly make a difference. We work amongst others for Philips, LEGO, Grolsch, Brabantia, Lely , Skil, Hortilux, HERO, Otolift, SPA, FrieslandCampina, Sara Lee, Akzo Nobel and TEFAL.
FLEX Creating a new Reality.
» www.flex.nl

NPK design
npk design is an international design agency; a strong partner in the development, design, and realization of extremely diverse products for the brand and market of its clients. Strategic advice, industrial design, public design and graphic design, but also engineering and supply management are part and parcel of the services provided. In key complementary areas we cooperate with partners, both on the field of technology, purchase and implementation, and on the field of marketing and sales. The agency is known for its innovation, originality, knowledge, precision and pragmatism. Precisely the combination of innovation and creativity and working systematically creates high added value for clients.Our approach has led to easily to produce product solutions that distinguish themselves in both the professional and consumer market and for use in public spaces. npk design is a consulting and design for industrial, publishing and graphic design.
» www.npk.nl