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Published with the 2018 graduation show of the Design Academy Eindhoven, this volume offers a platform for addressing aspects of design practice that underpin or transcend the object, and the connecting themes. “There is something paradoxical about the contemporary design school,” write Joseph Grima and Jurriënne Ossewold in the introduction. Successfully arguing that everything is design, and that design is relevant to everything, risks becoming the institution’s undoing. It mirrors the demand for an increasingly specialised set of individuals who must respond to increasingly complex problems. With new insight, young designers can shape the future of design education.