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heritage x design

Status
ongoing
50%
City

Eindhoven

Main actors

Local Government, Private Sector, Community / Citizen Group

Project area

Whole City/Administrative Region

Duration

Ongoing since 2020

The visibility of cultural heritage in urban space can be improved, using creativity, community engagement and sustainable development. “heritage x design” an initiative by the cultural department of the City of Eindhoven and Cultuur Eindhoven, pairs up heritage organisations with designers to collectively propose a new storytelling of Eindhoven cultural heritage through design in public space. In doing so, it has started a dialogue between two sectors and communities of professionals, heritage and design, who weren’t used to talking to each other.

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Sustainable Development Goals

Promote sustained, inclusive and sustainable economic growth, full and productive employment and decent work for allMake cities and human settlements inclusive, safe, resilient and sustainableEnsure sustainable consumption and production patternsPromote peaceful and inclusive societies for sustainable development, provide access to justice for all and build effective, accountable and inclusive institutions at all levels
City
Eindhoven, Netherlands
Size and population development
According to the city population website, the 2020 population of Eindhoven is 234,294. The city covers an area of 88.4 square kilometers with a population density of 2,674 people per km2.
Population composition
The age breakdown of Eindhoven’s population shows that 66.3% of residents are 18-64, 17% are 0-17 and 16.7% are over 65 years of age. Males make up 51.5% of the population and females 48.5% 29.5% of the population were born outside of the Netherlands and there are significant groups of people from Germany, Poland, Turkey, India and China.
Main functions
Eindhoven is the fifth largest city and a municipality of the Netherlands. It lies along the Dommel River in the south of the country. It acts a rail junction and is served by the Eindhoven and Beatrix canals and an airport.
Main industries / business
In 1891 Gerard and Anton Philips founded a small light bulb factory in Eindhoven that would grow into one of largest electronics companies in the world. The growth of Phillips attracted many companies to the city making it a major technology, industrial and research hub. Eindhoven is one of the co-location centers of the European Institute of Innovation and Technology (EIT). It hosts two knowledge and Innovation Communities, (KICs): Innoenergy (Sustainable Energy) and EIT ICT Labs (Information and Communication Technology). The manufacturing of trucks is also important to the local economy and it is the headquarters of DAF trucks.
Sources for city budget
The City of Eindhoven draws its budget for public expenditure largely from property tax, fees, operating revenues, other taxes and subsides from the National Government of the Netherlands.
Political structure
Administrative structure
The day-to-day administration of Eindhoven is provided by the Municipal Executive, made up of the mayor and five alderpersons. The mayor is appointed by Royal Decree for a renewable term of six years. The alderpersons are appointed for four years by the coalition parties that form a majority in the city council.
Website
https://www.eindhoven.nl/

Eindhoven is one of the largest and oldest cities in the Netherlands. Particularly renowned for its technology and design sectors (home to Philips, the Dutch Design Week and the Design Academy), the city is said to have the habit of never looking back. As a result, the rich history of the city is rather untold and unknown to visitors and locals alike.

In 2020, Cultuur Eindhoven invited seven heritage organisations to identify four key problems concerning the gaps between heritage, its visibility in the city and the public.

Cultuur Eindhoven opened a call for designers, after which four project teams were formed, each including at least one heritage organisation and one designer.

The teams received a budget for their proposals of a project or intervention in the public space.

Heritage organisations provided content, materials and visions while designers came up with creative ideas.

Four projects were executed of which two focussed heavily on making heritage more visible and perceptible for the public:

  • Portal is a physical gate in the city placed following a historical map that works like a time machine. When visitors step through it, an augmented reality app presents a historical scene of Eindhoven from 1560 or the post-Second World War period.
     
  • Parels (Pearls) is a website combining archival pictures and stories from an inhabitant or visitor of the city. Everyone is invited to share their stories and photos to create themed walking routes through the city.

€262,746 for the total project (heritage x design), among which approximately €20,000 was allocated to coaching, curating, organising and creating events. The rest of the budget was allocated to the four projects (Portal and Parels).

57% of the funding came from the municipality, and 43% came from national administration.

Cultuur Eindhoven, who is prominently responsible for the implementation of the cultural policy of the Municipality of Eindhoven, led the project (four staff members involved, including the director and a communications officer), with the help of one heritage specialist from the heritage department of the city.

A freelancer was hired to work as a curator.

In total, six heritage foundations and seven designers or studios were part of the programme.

The local government included the project “heritage x design” as a good example in the policy paper: Erfgoeddoelen 2021-2022 (Heritage goals 2021-2022).

 In 2021; Eindhoven won the national BNG bank heritage price. The open call, as well as projects like Portal, were mentioned in the jury report as best practices to make heritage more connected within the general policy of the local government.

• Combine the knowledge and experience about the heritage and history of a city with creative, out-of-the-box ways of thinking to create compelling storytelling. 

• Hire or appoint an expert to curate and coordinate the process. 

• When involving tangible heritage in public space, it is important to get the different deputy mayors and departments in charge involved at an early stage and throughout the project. 

• Make sure that the roles and responsibilities of each partner in the project are clearly defined from the star

• The team of designers has also been asked to create similar projects in different cities.

 

https://www.cultuureindhoven.nl/blog/

https://www.cultuureindhoven.nl/blog/presentatie-eindhovens-erfgoed-23-september/

https://parels040.nl/map

https://portal-eindhoven.nl/en/

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