Building Talent

Through Building Talent, the Fund offers starting designers and makers the possibility of working on current issues and design challenges with experienced agencies for a period of three months. To achieve these collaborations, the Fund set up open calls. The objective of the open calls is to strengthen the link between starting designers and makers and the field of work and, in turn, to support the field of work by creating additional scope for in-depth research and experiment. In this way, the Fund wants to contribute to increasing knowledge and experience and strengthening the network and entrepreneurship of starters.

starters

Building Talent is open to starting makers and designers who have at most four years’ experience within the disciplines of design, architecture or digital culture. The call offers scope to landscape architects, graphic designers, social designers, fashion designers as well as starters in many other disciplines and sub-disciplines. They can have completed a relevant design course, but they can also have developed themselves professionally in practice, without having completed a relevant design course.

current challenges

The design challenge, research question or experiment is formulated by the design agencies and is worked on together. The proposals are often based on a self-chosen theme, a fascination, a social challenge or another relevant topic, with starters playing an important role. The design agencies are selected in the first phase of the open call. In the second phase, starters who are interested can then give a focussed response to the design challenges. We look for the best collaborations in the selection process.