RE:DESIGN (Net) Work Award
The project is directed at the creation of both jobs and a sustainable environment.
Socially deprived or permanently unemployed people are meant to find long-term employment through the establishment of new work opportunities in the field of re-use design, such as in the collection of waste materials and in the production and distribution of re-use design products. As a cross-border initiative, the project promotes the development and implementation of new re-use job opportunities in socio-economic organizations and companies in Slovakia and Austria. In addition, the idea of manufacturing (trendy) products of everyday life made from recycled waste products is meant to raise an ecological awareness among consumers and contribute to sustainability and the preservation of natural resources. Involving professional designers in the process will ensure that consumers increasingly recognize the attractiveness of re-use products.
Categories
Ideas for products made of recyclables can be entered in three categories:
• Mobility & Public Space
• Household & Domestic Life
• Accessories, Jewellery & Fashion
Design solutions should consider the availability of the materials required and the products’ appeal for end users. See the findings of a relevant study at www.redesign-network.eu
Eligibility
Employed and self-employed professional designers and design students in the European Union are invited to submit their unrealized designs. By entering participants grant the organizers the right to present their works publicly in exhibitions and publish them in the context of this competition.
Deadline
Products can be entered until the 31st of March 2010
Entry Formalities
The designs, sketches, models, dum¬mies, or prototypes entered must be presented true to scale, regardless of the products’ actual dimensions and applications. The production of the designs entered must involve exclusively recyclables that can be collected and separated in larger quantities in order to ensure the possibility of serial/industrial production. Unique items, handmade works, and products made from unsepa¬rated domestic waste are excluded.
Possible materials to be used are: auto¬mobile tyres, safety belts, books, wiring, CDs/DVDs, bicycle wheels and tubes, film canisters, tiles, aluminium cans, plastic bottles, boxes, corrugated card¬board, clothes hangers (wood, plastic, metal), crown caps, conductor plates/circuit boards, truck tarpaulins, beverage cartons, textiles (clothes, fabric, felt, wool), glass bottles.
Each entry must be accompanied by:
• two completed entry forms
• a summary description (one page)
• a two-dimensional documentation (drawings, sketches, or photo¬graphs of the design), mounted on up to two panels (cardboard or foamboard) measuring 70 by 100 cm or up to five panels measuring 35 by 50 cm (the entrant’s personal data must be attached to the reverse side of the panels). Videos, CDs, and DVDs are not acceptable.
• Models, dummies, or prototypes must be securely wrapped. If you want your entries to be returned, please use reusable package materials.
Entries that do not comply with these conditions will not be considered. The number of entries per entrant is not limited.
For further information and to download the entry form visit:
Entry Fee and Liability
Participation is free of charge, so that there is no entry free.
Three-dimensional entries (models, dummies, prototypes) will be insured up to an amount of 250.00 euros each from the moment of their arrival until they leave the organizers’ premises. Entries will only be returned at the entrant’s expressive wish and at his/her own risk and expense, as soon as all promotion activities have been completed.
Jury
All entries will be presented to an independent jury. The following persons have been nominated and have agreed to participate in the jury panel:
• Lisa Ehrenstrasser, designer (A), University of Technology, Vienna
• Sigi Ramoser, designer (A)
• Bjorn Kierulf, designer (SK)
• Franz Enhuber, CEO, Gemeinnützige BeschäftigungsgmbH, Liezen (A)
• DI Christian Pladerer, Öster- reichisches Ökologie-Institut (A)
No correspondence will be entered into about the decision of the jury. A jury protocol will be published at
www.redesign-network.eu as soon as the winners have been announced. Members of the jury and their relatives, as well as persons affiliated with the organizers, are excluded from the participation in this competition.
The jury will meet in Vienna in mid-April 2010.
Prizes and Criteria
The total prize money is 3,000 euros and will be equally distributed among the winners in the three categories (1,000 euros each). The prizes are indivisible and their distribution is obligatory. From these three finalists, the jury will choose the overall winner by selecting the entry that ideally considers such criteria as availability of recyclables, feasibility, and potential marketability. Besides the prize money, the main prize also includes the realization of the design.
The realization or production of the design by a socioeconomic company in Slovakia and/or Austria will be based on a customary licence agreement to be negotiated between the designer and the producer before the project has expired. A sample agreement published by designaustria will serve as the basis for such negotiations. The prize money will be considered an adequate compensation for the design as such; additional royalties will be paid according to the licence agreement after the project has expired.
Moreover, the jury can assign up to five merit awards per category to design solutions envisaging a particularly innovative and visionary use of recyclables. Each selected designer will receive a certificate.
The organizers will enter the overall winner’s design in the 2011 Austrian National Design Award, which is organized every two years by the Austrian Federal Ministry of Economics, Family and Youth.
Award Ceremony
The award ceremony and the announcement of the winners will take place in autumn 2010. The prize-winning entries will be presented in an exhibition to be held immediately after this event at the Vienna designforum.
Adress for Entries
Entries must be sent to:
designaustria at designforumWIEN
RE:DESIGN [Net]Work Award
MuseumsQuartier
Museumsplatz 1/Hof 7
A–1070 Vienna
Austria
They will only be returned at the entrant’s express wish. The entrant is responsible for the punctual arrival of his/her entry. The date of the postmark applies.
