Canteen Curriculum

In its relatively brief history, the design school has always been not only a centre of learning but equally a site of production — one whose output is not the design product but rather the design student themselves. In the Netherlands, the number of students and programmes for design increase every year, but so do the challenges to the design industry. What, then, does design education mean today, particularly in the Netherlands, where design has been positioned as a key creative industry and a tool of social change? Canteen Curriculum is a communal event hosted by Het Nieuwe Instituut, inviting representatives of a variety of Dutch design schools to come together around a shared canteen table, which will act as a canvas for ideas, conversations, questions, and provocations for a future brief.