SEED is a brand-new talent development programme where starting social designers can develop their knowledge and entrepreneurial skills by joining a unique traineeship trajectory with senior social designers as coaches. With a strong focus on artistic development, personal leadership and project management skills you will be able to better define your practice or talent as a designer. Ready to take your skills to the moon?

The SEED Programme

The program consists of two parts, you can choose what suits you best. You can join one of the Masterclasses to learn important skill sets that are needed when working with public and private institutions. In addition, you can apply for the talent development track where you will be working on your individual development plan together with an experienced social designer as coach. Together with all participants of the SEED programme you will present your work, learn from each other and connect with new networks and audiences. 

  • The first part of the educational program is a series of masterclasses. The masterclasses are open to all starting designers and train them within the practical aspect as socially engaged designers. With the masterclasses, we help you as a starting young designer to get acquainted with the skills and competencies needed when working in the field.

    We believe there are three pillars of knowledge needed for starting social designers to create a more resilient commencement within the design field. These are Positioning, Collaboration & Personal Leadership and Entrepreneurial skills. Join one of the Masterclasses to take the next step in your personal development.

  • As a starting social designer you can join the Development Track where you will work on your individual development plan together with an experienced social designers. You can get advice on developing your autonomous work or getting acquainted and learning with an experienced social design studio and its processes. The Development Track facilitates your own approach by the support from a social design coach or to get first-hand experience as a trainee in a social design practice in the Netherlands.

The Masterclasses

  • Artistic & Professional Positioning

    28.03.’23 16.00-19.00h

    The first masterclass will focus on defining the individual artistic positioning of starting socially engaged designers in relation to their areas of interest. Positioning is one of the core elements for us within our socially engaged practices.

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  • Personal Development Plan

    19.04.’23 16.00-19.00h

    In this masterclass participants will create their personal development plan for the coming year(s) including their positioning, project preference and working network.

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  • Collaboration & Personal Leadership

    06.06.’23 16.00-19.00h

    This masterclass will focus on collaboration and personal leadership. We want the starting designers to know how to follow their personal vision within collaborative projects and discover individual strengths within their practice.

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  • Entrepreneurial & Management Skills

    12.09.’23 14.00-17.00h

    The fourth masterclass will act as a pressure cooker on project management, budgeting and other skills that can be valuable for all starting designers such as training negotiation skills, and time and resource management.

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The Development Track

Are you a junior designer who wants to be coached to develop your autonomous project or to follow a traineeship at a design studio fitting your development goals and interest?

Applications are now open! Apply via the Button below!

    • 29.03.’23 Launch Open Call

    • 27.04.’23 17.00h CEST Deadline submission

    • 11.05.’23 Announcement selected participants

  • The selection procedure will be based on the following criteria:

    • you are younger than 28 year

    • artistic and/or contextual quality of your work

    • feasibility of the development goal(s)

    • a match of the learning goals with possible coaches

    • a balanced set of juniors 

  • The selection will be made by an external jury. After a selection will be made we make a fitting match with professionals from the social design field.

  • We organize this Open Call to support junior social designers’ development. We expect full commitment to the SEED Programme by joining the obligatory sessions and the coaching. All details can be found on www.seed-programme.nl/open-call