Zefir7: writing about design by Platform Pudding

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Monthly Designers’ Café in collaboration with BNO
This edition features Farah Fayyad (graphic designer and type designer) and Mălin Neamțu (graphic designer and type designer).

Tuesday 17 March 2026, 20:00 (doors open at 19:30)
Location: Stroom, Hogewal 1-9, The Hague
Admission: Free
More info: www.zefir7.nl

Designing is one thing, but writing about design is another. While designcriticism may come with negative associations, elitist downtalking, it too provides the means to reflect on material culture. This brings up the question of how we build up an environment for respectful reflections on the things we make or have been made in the past, that simultaneously aims to deepen our insights on our everyday and material culture. Yet where is that space for design criticism today? Such questions were at the core of a new initiative, supported by the Stimuleringsfonds Creatieve Industry, that investigated the current state of affairs of design criticism. Rather than sitting idly by, a new platform is launched to provide a space to cross contaminate reflections – ranging from established authors and curators in the field. We will discuss the space for design criticism and the buildup of this new platform, including the first issue on proof, with the initiators; Karmen Samson, an independent author and researcher in the field of fashion, Mijke Tonnon, freelance curator and editor at Blauwdruk Publishers, and Kylièn Bergh, a researcher in design culture and lecturer at the Royal Academy of Arts and Vrije Universiteit.