On Saturday night (18 October), the Dutch Design Basis introduced the three winners of the Dutch Design Awards 2025, with designers Vera van der Burg; Willem de Haan; and Marten van Middelkoop and Joost Dingemans of Plasticiet receiving the annual accolade.
The award was introduced by textile innovator Borre Akkersdijk, chair of a jury comprising Sabine Marcelis, architect Paul Cournet, way of life model Patta co-founder Guillaume Schmidt and Samir Bantal, architect and director at AMO.
Dutch Design Awards 2025: meet the the winners
‘A topic recognition algorithm’ by Vera van der Burg, created in collaboration with Gijs de Boer. ‘If we explicitly prepare an algorithm on somebody’s private values, can it seize one thing of their specific approach of seeing?’ ask the designers. ‘Whereas an object recognition algorithm normally tries to study the definition of an object, we discover the potential for a topic recognition algorithm: can an AI study to see the worth and which means of an object for somebody?’
(Picture credit score: Courtesy Vera van der Burg)
A designer and researcher exploring AI as a software for creativity and self-reflection, Vera van der Burg appears into alternatives of integrating machine studying and automation into on a regular basis life. ‘How can we keep in management and use AI for the larger good?’ she asks, and solutions via digital photographs and bodily installations that problem our notion of design.
‘Motor Dwelling’ by Willem de Haan, 2024, a ship designed to resemble a home submerged in a flood
(Picture credit score: Courtesy Willem de Haan)
Willem De Haan, in the meantime, attracts inspiration from movie and theatre to create daring public installations that purpose to problem ‘the unstated social guidelines of on a regular basis life’. His observe caught the jury’s consideration for providing a recent software of the Dutch design custom: vital of society’s norms, whereas on the similar time rigorously deliberate in its aesthetic. ‘Humour is his entry level – a refined, diplomatic language with a pointy message.’
‘Mom of Pearl’ by Plasticiet
(Picture credit score: Pim High)
‘Impressed by nature, aspiring to create a post-waste world’, is the motto of Marten van Middelkoop and Joost Dingemans of design studio Plasticiet. In its decade as a cloth producer and developer of recycled strong surfaces, Plasticiet has labored with purchasers together with Ace & Tate, Jil Sander, and retail vacation spot De Bijenkorf. The duo transforms discarded plastics into strong floor supplies with marble-like patterns.
‘Karlite Sienna’, by Plasticiet for Wandler
(Picture credit score: Pim High)
Every of the winners will obtain a prize of €10,000 and a tailor-made expertise growth programme created in collaboration with the Hold an Eye Basis.
‘Amongst an excellent group of nominees, these three winners stand out of their fields,’ says Akkersdijk. ‘Every brings versatility and pushes each their very own limits and people of design. They’re makers who hold difficult themselves to create exceptional work, and there’s little question they’ll proceed to shock us.’
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