
The advisory board are now in the process of choosing the winners from over 170 applications of this year’s Distributed Design Award. The categories for the awards were Future Thinking, Cultural Significance, Circular Design, Adaptable and Open Design, Sustainable Production, Design for Emergency and Project Excellence.
We received an incredible + 170 applicants for this year’s Distributed Design Awards, all with inspiring, engaging and intricately-designed projects which reflect the principles of distributed design: supportive, sustainable, open and ecosystemic.
The judging process of these projects is ongoing. We have narrowed our selection down to 32 pre-finalists – see them below!
A guest jury will be doing the final part of the judging process, narrowing down the projects into the final winners of each category. The jury experts consists of Nadya Peek (HCDE), Liza Chong (The Index Project), Primavera de Filippi (Berkman Klein Centre, Harvard), Guillaume Charny-Brunet (SPACE10), Daniel Charny (FixEd) and Alysia Garmulewicz (Materiom).
Category: Design for Emergency
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HelloHealth / Home.Work / Personal Patient Pack / Breathers / LAC
Category: Cultural Significance
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Kairoz / P.E.T MINI Electric Skateboard / on.entropy / PLÆNTR / LAYERS
Category: Circular Design
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[ T ] Furnitures / Abrigo Studio / Camille / MY-X / WOWood UK
Category: Future Thinking
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CORE RELIEF / Spirulina Society /The Hobujaama Heart / Waste Lab / FAZ com as tuas mãos
Category: Adaptable and Open Design
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Alquimétricos / CLOUDS / MNT Reform / Modular Habitats / Otto DIY / Row-Ro / Chicken Coop
Category: Sustainable Production
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COOLING BRICKS / JetClay / mimo / MEKANIKA / Circular Ceramics
We have curated an online exhibition for all of the projects which applied to the awards, you can find it here👇
If you didn’t make it to the pre-finalists selections, we’ve got another opportunity for you… Our partners, The Index Project, also have an award which you can apply for.
The Index Award is about celebrating and highlighting design to improve life – since 2005, The Index Project have handed out prizes to more than 45 game-changing solutions such as LifeStraw, Tesla Roadster, Duolingo, The Ocean Cleanup and Zipline. Do you have or know of a design that improves life in the categories of Body, Home, Work, Play & Learning or Community?
You can nominate online (it’s free, easy and you can nominate on behalf of others) or send us a tip if there’s something we should know about.
For the 32 pre-finalists who are waiting for the results of the Distributed Design Awards, sit tight, apply for the Index Project awards, and the results will be out soon!
Good luck to you all, you’re already winners✌️