It’s finally here! We are excited to announce the finalists for the sixth edition of the Distributed Design Awards. Our jury had the tough task of selecting 12 exceptional finalists from the many innovative, supportive, and sustainable designs submitted. We were thrilled to see an overwhelming response to the post-industrial design paradigm launched by this year’s Distributed Design Awards. We’d like to thank everyone who participated in making this possible.

This year’s jury is made up of international distributed design experts on each assessing round, representing 17 high-profile cultural and design institutions in total, these are Pakhuis de Zwijger, P2P Lab, Re:Publica, Happy Lab Vienna, Danish Design Centre, Innovation Centre Iceland, Maker, Espacio Open, Polifactory, Politecnico Milano, Ars Longa – Fab City Store, Fab Lab Budapest, Open Dot, Politécnico de Lisboa, MAO, Fab City Foundation, Global Innovation Gathering and Design & Crafts Council Ireland.

All the winners, including the People’s Choice Award, will be announced on the 26th of August. 

Here are the 12 selected finalists for the Distributed Design Awards 2023:

Responsible Design

• Odapt — Spain
• reCOVER — Hungary
• Seaweed Dialogues — Denmark
• FFF – Fungal Fermentation Factory — Netherlands

Future Thinking

• Plastic scanner — Netherlands
• Energy Futures – United Kingdom
• Ambessa Play – United Kingdom
• Photodermis – Spain

Adaptable & Open Design

• Portable Solar Distiller – Denmark
• Open-source 3D bio-material printing toolkit – Spain
• Motus – Switzerland
• VirgiIi – Italy

Keep your eyes on the distributed channels for news about the awards!

Find out more about the Distributed Design Awards 2023.