Dream out loud

Twenty-six designers active in the social design field present their fearless pieces at the Stedelijk Museum in Amsterdam, with an exhibition curated by Lennart Booij.

The Stedelijk Museum Amsterdam opens a large-scale presentation of contemporary design with 26 participants active in the field of social design. These designers dream aloud about a better world and are committed to finding answers to today’s problems, experimenting with new technologies, seeking solutions for humanitarian or ecological disasters, and challenge our consumer culture with designs that can be repaired or upcycled.

**Top:** Marcia Nolte, Stijn van der Vleuten and Bob Waardenburg, We make carpets. Photo Ewout Huibers. **Above:** Pieter Stoutjesdijk (TheNewMakers), Post-disaster shelter for Haiti, 2013/2016. Photo Pieter Stoutjesdijk

The designers in “Dream Out Loud” represent a new generation of designers whose driving force is not extreme luxury but improving the existing world. This “social design” does not always produce immediately viable applications, but opens up new ways of thinking, bringing the achievable closer.