Katowice, Poland
Laka Foundation
Winners announcement 2021
Katowice, Poland, 2021-05-07
The Design Educates Awards recognize, showcase, and promote globally the best ideas and implementations of architecture and design that can educate. DEAwards reach beyond the regular architecture contest priorities, it searches for something that will have a lasting influence beyond the ever-present effects of design and architecture.
Each year, the esteemed panel of judges selects outstanding ideas and implementations in the categories of architectural design, product design, universal design, and responsive design. The Jury of the edition 2021 has been joined by Prof. Alison Brooks, Prof. Farshid Moussavi, Prof. Jürgen Mayer H., Prof. Toyo Itō, David Basulto, Hani Rashid, Konstantin Grcic, Andrés Reisinger, Enrica Cavarzan, Dr. Peter Kuczia, Aidin Ardjomandi, Ir. Kristina Bacht, Issa Diabaté, Alain Gilles, Hella Jongerius, Hadi Teherani, Marco Zavagno.
In addition to the main prizes, the awards include “emerging designers” recognition (for the best student designs), and “Solarlux Choice” (the selection of the projects made by representatives of Solarlux – strategic partner of the awards).
All winning projects (including authors and collaborators) are available on the official website of the awards: www.designeducates.com and the materials for the press (images and descriptions) are available here! The laureates of the main prizes are:
Winner for the year 2021 in architectural design:
“Zheshui Natural Library” by LUO studio
Winner for the year 2021 in product design + Emerging designers 2021:
“GoRolloe” by Kristen Tapping
Gold prize in universal design:
“Braille meets emoticons – a visual language for visually impaired” by Walda Verbaenen
Gold prize in responsive design:
“Villa Ypsilon” by LASSA and collaborators
Solarlux Choice 2021:
“Public Library, Dornbirn” by Dietrich | Untertrifaller with Christian Schmoelz and collaborators;
”Prisma – Schorndorf Station” by schneider+schumacher and collaborators
All laureates are listed on the site: https://designeducates.com/

Photo credit: Jin Weiqi

+ Emerging designers 2021_ GoRolloe, Author: Kristen Tapping
Photo credit: Kristen Tapping

Photo credit: Walda Verbaenen

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Photo credit: Aldo Amoretti,Albrecht I. Schnabel


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Photo credit: supertecture and Patrizia Children Foundation

Photo credit: Elvira Lepikhina

Photo credit: Tulane University, Small Center for Collaborative Design

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Photo credit: Wang Ning, Wu Qingshan

Photo credit: Adrià Goula

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Photo credit: Visit Limburg and Luc Daelemans

Photo credit: Mari Ito, UAo, DAICI ANO

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Photo credit: Paolo Volonte

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Photo credit: hammeskrause architekten and Wolf-Dieter Gericke, Philipp Muerdter

Photo credit: Henrike Mohr, Esther Grünewald

Photo credit: Ş Norbert Miguletz

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The host of the ‘Design Educates Awards is Laka Foundation (a nonprofit and nongovernmental organization). The theme of the awards has been inspired by the research called Educating Buildings (Bildende Bauten) by Dr. Peter Kuczia.
Contact the organizer at hello@designeducates.com The strategic partners of the awards are Solarlux GmbH and Architecture in the Foyer.
Media sponsors are Archdaily and v2com.
Media partners are World Architecture Community and Global Design Awards Lab.
For more information
Media contact
- Laka Foundation
- Design Educates Awards Editors
- hello@designeducates.com
Source: V2com newswire