Prince Claus Fund announced the 2023 Prince Claus Seed Awards #opencall.

The Fund offers 100 Seed Awards to emerging artists and cultural practitioners, who live and work in Africa, Asia, Latin America, the Caribbean and Eastern Europe. You can apply until 23 February 2023.

If you have questions regarding the application process of the Prince Claus Seed Awards Open Call, you can sign up for their Webinar. It will be on the 6th of February, 3pm CET! For registration click here.

Also, you can check out the previous Prince Claus Seed Awards recipients here.

EHV Innovation Cafe organises inspiring talks on technology, design and knowledge every Thursday. It provides a great platform to share ideas and strengthen the connections between the creative community in Eindhoven.

The first event of 2023 will be held tomorrow. EHV invites everyone to collaborate: “Do you have an interesting idea for a talk or workshop you would like to share? Want to collaborate with EHV Innovation Café? Do you have ideas or tips for our events?”.

It is an English-spoken event, and registration is free.

The 10th edition of What Design Can Do (WDCD) Live was held on 3 June 2022 at the International Theater Amsterdam. WDCD organises events, design challenges and projects with the mission “to empower the global creative community to make a valuable contribution to solving the major problems of our time”. As well as other sessions, WDCD 2022 programme included circular design pioneers and creative visionaries around the 'gender, design and power' and 'decolonising design' sessions, which helped to create a conversation about rethinking design practice. Unlike most institutions, WDCD has been carrying out events and programmes on social and environmental impacts of design since 2011. For those who could not attend the event, its YouTube channel provides a great source of impact-driven design content. I believe that it is crucial to share such content in order to enhance the visibility of projects and creatives focusing on the social and environmental aspects of design. You can access the talks from here.

I am happy to visit ‘Now Show’, the MA graduation exhibition of St. Joost School of Art & Design. The Master Institute of Visual Cultures includes the programmes of the Visual Arts and Post-Contemporary Practice, Situated Design and Ecology Futures with an emphasis on the role of the artist and designer in society. The exhibition's curatorial statement has evolved around the notion of “in-between”. “In all distances, we seek affirmation in each other. We collapse and confide in one another, we find strength in entrustment and stand side by side in-between. With ourselves floating, we position our intersubjective works within this building that is in-between us, giving us a place to land together one last time before we lift off.” It was a great opportunity to explore mind, body, objects, and relationships through projects and think about the in-between personal and public. You can visit the MA works from here.

‘Designing the Social’ the semi-permanent exhibition is organized by Het Nieuwe Instituut that is the Netherlands’ national institute for architecture, design, and digital culture. The exhibition investigates the interaction between design and society and the ideas about living together over the past century in the Netherlands. Within the scope of the exhibition, designers, researchers, and curators have revealed and reinterpreted pieces that they choose from archives and heritage collections to tell about 100 years of social design in the Netherlands. The exhibition is divided into themes, including design strategies from the second feminist wave, the socio-economic experiment around weaving mill De Ploeg, the 'minimum dwelling', and life in the digital city (De Digitale Stad).

Gunay Uslu appointed as State Secretary for Culture and Media on behalf of D66 is responsible for the Culture and Media portfolio in the new cabinet that takes office on 10 January 2022. Uslu is a cultural historian and visiting researcher at the University of Amsterdam, specializing in the history of European culture, heritage studies, museums, and cultural policy. She is also chairman of the Supervisory Board of Eye Filmmuseum Amsterdam, a member of the advisory board of the Mauritshuis museum in The Hague, and of the Rembrandt Association.

25 Years 25 Hours Online Festival organized by the Prince Claus Fund, starts tomorrow. The Fund supports creative individuals worldwide, especially where cultural expression is under pressure.

The festival is curated by Keng Sen Ong and you can access the programme from here.

İyi Tasarım/Good Design İzmir, one of the crucial initiatives of İzmir to become a design city, carried out by İzmir Mediterranean Academy; is held in a hybrid format between 26 November - 5 December 2021. The theme of the event is “Common Futures Reloaded”.

The event program, which has comprehensive and interdisciplinary content, consists of three main topics: “Design Education for the Commons”, “Design and Care”, and “Commons and Resilience”. Exhibitions, workshops, talks, and film screenings are held within the scope of the program.

İyi Tasarım/Good Design İzmir, bringing urbanites and designers together and emphasizing the social impact of design, will offer a platform for the public assessment of design to question and discuss with the panels "Urban Resilience: City and Agriculture" and "Design Culture as a Common" on December 3, 2021.

The online Closing Forum of ‘tasarım ile / with design’ project supported by Spaces of Culture was held on 3 November 2021. Designers Derya Özkan and Ayşenur Onaran ("There Used to Be a Cinema Here"), Tansel Özalp (“Mirror, Mirror…”), Onurcan Çakır (“ALTyapı”) and Metehan Özcan (“Kordon Platform”) were invited to make spacial interventions/installations that will allow the interaction of the urbanites. From the link below, you can access the recording of the Closing Forum, where designers shared their experiences during the research and application processes of their installations.