TU/e is celebrating its 65th anniversary in grand style. Are you joining us?
Under the motto Heroes Like You, we are celebrating our anniversary this week with exciting exhibitions, a rip-roaring anniversary party and much more. Everyone is welcome!
TU/e is celebrating its 65th anniversary this year, something that won't have escaped your notice. The festivities will culminate this week with the three-day Heroes Like You Festival. This includes MomenTUm, of course, but also a rip-roaring anniversary party with Typhoon, the opening of the equally celebrated Dutch Design Week, exhibitions and dance duets with drones. Most of the festivities are open to everyone, so you are cordially invited to celebrate with us.
The festivities begin on Thursday October 14 with the opening of the Artistic Heroes Like You exhibition in which our staff and students showcase their artistic talents. A literal and figurative highlight of the afternoon will be a tightrope act between the roofs of Atlas and Vertigo. In the evening, a big student party will be held for our graduating bachelors.
On Friday October 15 and Saturday October 16, we celebrate MomenTUm, the annual tribute to our bachelor students, and the presentation of the Academic Awards. Following an online edition in 2020 due to corona, our students and their parents can now attend together again, so this promises to be an extra festive occasion. This celebration in MetaForum is for invited guests only. More information about MomenTUm can be found here.
Dutch Design Week
Also on Friday, Dutch Design Week 2021 will kick-off officially on our campus. Fortunately, this year it will again be an offline event. “It is no coincidence that TU/e has been chosen to host the opening,” says Lucas Asselbergs, head of Studium Generale, who is involved in the organization on behalf of TU/e.
“Twenty years ago, the university was one of the founding fathers of this annual design spectacle, which was then modestly known as ‘The Day of Design’. The fact that we are now celebrating our anniversaries together underlines the close relationship between research, technology and design,” says Asselbergs.
Drivers of Change
The opening of DDW 2021 will be a closed affair, but that same evening (from 9:30 pm) the public will already be able to take a look at the Drivers of Change exhibition, which can be seen at various points on our campus. Across sixty showcases, this exhibition presents a selection of groundbreaking and exciting research and design projects at TU/e.
“Technology forms the basis for important innovations, whether this concerns health, mobility, sustainability or data use,” says Asselbergs. “At Drivers of Change, TU/e engineering graduates of today and tomorrow will present their insights and smart solutions.”
The exhibition can be visited each day from October 15 to 24 from 11 am to 6 pm. There will also be presentations every hour between midday and 5 pm in which scientists will talk about their research and their passions – a unique opportunity to meet our research talent in person. Do you want to get a taste of the stories you can expect? Check out this episode of Heroes Like You TV on YouTube.
But there’s more!
Besides Drivers of Change, three more thematic exhibitions will take place on campus for lovers of modern architecture (Archiprix), robots and artificial intelligence (in the Gaslab) and photonics (in Atlas).
Don’t forget to visit Stella, the solar car of student team Solar (in Atlas), the sustainable Ripple house of student team VIRTUe, and GEM, a 21-metre-high folding tower that will generate power for the anniversary event using solar collectors and a wind turbine. Or take a look at the rich history of TU/e in the Historical Pavilion. Check the map for the exact locations.
Let’s party!
The highlight of the festivities will undoubtedly be the anniversary party on Saturday, with performances by singer-songwriter Alain Clark and rapper Typhoon, and a spectacular drone show by Another Kind of Blue (also on Friday). There are still (free) tickets available for these performances. But be quick, because gone is gone.
Theatre lovers will be in their element at Diederik Jekel’s theatre show on Sunday. More of a circus enthusiast? Then don’t miss David Dimitri’s tightrope act, a 53-meter-high walk across a 120-meter cable from the Atlas building to Vertigo.
Want to go to such heights yourself? Then visit our Sky Bar and toast the heroes of our university (and the hero in you, of course) from a height of 50 meters!
Corona rules
The anniversary party on Saturday evening and the Historical Pavilion are only accessible with the CoronaCheck app and an identification document. All other activities are freely accessible.
You can download a flyer with all program details here .
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