The Wim Crouwel Lecture is organized annually by the Wim Crouwel Institute at the Stedelijk Museum Amsterdam. A knowledgeable and high-profile individual is invited to address a current theme in the field of design and offer new perspectives on and/or through graphic design. The Wim Crouwel Lecture is a co-production between the Wim Crouwel Institute, Allard Pierson, and the Stedelijk Museum Amsterdam.
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WIM CROUWEL LECTURE #10
FRIDAY 21 NOVEMBER 2025
16:00 - 17:15 HRS
STEDELIJK MUSEUM AMSTERDAM
PAST EVENTS 2014 - 2024
Wim Crouwel Lecture 9# | November 2024 | Amal Alhaag | Lies Ros | The End of Design … as we know it ;)
A speculative talk on daydreaming, discomfort and togetherness.
‘The End of Design … as we know it ;)’ zooms into what it means to daydream about the end of this world. Who creates, designs, dismantles or provides us with a language for alternative forms of solidarity when the worlds falls apart in a thousand pieces every day? Who still needs design then? This informal lecture highlights, through these questions, the everyday histories, stories and strategies that feed us with wayward ideas and practices about the world that one wants to inhabit.
Wim Crouwel Lecture 8# | November 2023 | Marian Duff | 'Zoek het uit!'
Wim Crouwel Lezing #7 | 2022 | Alice Twemlow | 'Disquieting Histories: Notes on Silence in the Graphic Design Archive.
Wim Crouwel Lezing #6 | 2019 | Marleen Stikker | 'Het terugwinnen van onze digitale soevereiniteit en de attitude die dat vraagt van een hedendaagse ontwerper'
Wim Crouwel Lezing #5 | 2018 | Joana Ozorio de Almeida Meroz | 'Constructing Ideas of Dutch Design'
Wim Crouwel Lezing #4 | 2017 | Alice Twemlow | 'Design Criticism in the Age of the Anthropocene'
Wim Crouwel Lezing #3 | 2016 | Huda AbiFares | ‘Multiscript Typography for a Global Citizenship’
Wim Crouwel Lezing #2 | 2015 | Gilian Schrofer
Wim Crouwel Lezing #1 | 2014 | Joost Elffers
Photo credit: Simon Pillaud