Changing Gears is the Theme of 4TU.DesignUnited's participation during the Dutch Design Week 2024.

We explore how design can drive the pace of change. Societal challenges like climate change require a speedy response, while others require slowing down. Designer researchers at 4TU.Design United are setting the change in motion. What gear are you in?

In five themes, we showcase the latest approaches in Design Research at the 4TU's in which the natural meets the artificial, the individual collaborates with the collective; the past connects to the future, and methods for making span the traditional to the novel.

Design United will fuel the Design Research Debate with 5 inspiring themes for 5 consecutive days in 5 appropriate formats. More than Human Design, Futuring, Politics of Design, Entanglements with AI, and Neo Craftsmanships will be in the centre of this programme.

For 5 consecutive days, Design United fuelled the debate around design research in the Effenaar during the Dutch Design Week in Eindhoven. Isolde Hallensleben hosted a vivid show and talked to researchers and designers to ignite a lively discussion on 5 design research themes: 1 Entangled Ecologies, 2 Connected Interactions, 3 Changing Things, 4 Embedded Designers, 5 Evolving Methodologies.

Design United fuelled the Design Research Debate with 5 inspiring themes for 5 consecutive days in 5 talkhsows, led by Isolde Hallensleben.

Design at the intersection of advanced scientific research, fast-moving emerging technologies, and the shifting needs and dreams of our future societies.
Design is a powerful tool – increasingly used to shape the future. With this power, comes responsibility for designers to work together. To unite. To better understand and respond to a rapidly evolving world. This what we do.