Symposium: The Future of Design ArchivesSymposium: The Future of Design Archives

During the symposium, Robert van Rixtel (LKI, Dutch Design Daily) will talk to Bas Pruyser, the designer of the most famous Capitole waste bin in the Netherlands, about what motivated him to recently throw away a large part of his archive. Designers Ineke Hans and Floris Hovers will also talk about the challenges they face in preserving years of design processes, as well as how design archives can be preserved in a future-proof manner and the difficulties this brings.

In addition, Timo de Rijk (director of Design Museum Den Bosch) will speak with designer Miriam van der Lubbe and Aukje Bolle (Managing Director of Nieuwe Instituut) about the importance of a heritage policy for design archives. How do archives contribute to the design of the future and why is it sometimes so difficult to properly preserve these valuable sources of information?

• 13:30 – Doors open
• 14:00 – Welcome and introduction to LKI & NADD
• 14:15 – Conversations with designers about their archives
• 15:00 – Panel discussion on heritage policy and preservation
• 15:30 – Q&A
• 15:45 – Drinks at the Van Abbe Café
• 17:00 – End

The Louis Kalff Instituut is the heritage centre for industrial design archives, located in Eindhoven.

NADD stands for Network Archives Design and Digital Culture and is a growing network of museums, creators, archives, designers, researchers and collectives. By combining forces within the network, NADD makes design and digital culture archives visible, accessible and future-proof.