Design that Educates Awards (DtEA) 2024

Deadline: April 21, 2024

Competitions

Creative Ideas Design

Location(s)

  • Germany
  • Online

Overview

The Design Educates Awards (DEAwards) recognize, showcase, and promote globally the best educational ideas and implementations of architecture and design. Design itself may provide an informative and educational layer that guides us through the increasing complexity of our environment. It can highlight specific possibilities and challenges, explain sociocultural factors and influences, or even outline new scenarios for future development. 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.

Details

“Many architecture and design awards recognize and promote the “beauty” of successful design. But in the Design Eucates Awards, we wanted to go one step further. We do not just want to see aesthetically and technically pleasing designs—we want something that offers true added value. We want an additional benefit with long-term implications that considers the increasing complexity of our lives, both now and in the future.”

Visual arts and, even more obviously, language have long been accepted as forms of expression with social and even political impacts. But even design and architecture, although generally quieter disciplines, can communicate. In fact, they have an indisputably direct impact on the way we live together—on the “how” and the “where.” Complex technical relationships, ecological relationships, and operation manual communication allow the users of a building to speak to its architects, engineers, and owners, that is, the ethos on which this initiative is based. The DEAwards recognize even subtler forms of artistic communication. Yet despite their subtlety, these approaches can change our behavior—and thus the world—albeit quietly and gradually.

Dates

  • Project submission deadline: April 21, 2024
  • Jury deliberation: May 2024
  • Announcement of winners: June 2024
  • Awards Ceremony 2024: September 19 & 20, 2024 at SOLARLUX CAMPUS in Melle | Germany

Opportunity is About


Eligibility

Candidates should be from:


Description of Ideal Candidate

What We Are Looking For

We are looking for creative, innovative projects (completed or concepts from the last 5 years) of any scale that, in addition to excellent aesthetics, incorporate added value—such as educational potential, storytelling elements, the stimulation of critical thinking, the ability to influence users’ emotions or behavior, and an impact on perception or encompass other similar values.

The awards are hosted by the Laka Foundation, a non-profit organization and a worldwide network focused on social impact via exceptional design and architecture.


Dates

Deadline: April 21, 2024


Cost/funding for participants

Winners Benefits

  1. Winners packages with certificates and winning labels
  2. Inclusion in the yearbook
  3. Participation in the exhibition with confirmation by certificates
  4. Awards Ceremony in Germany with photo documentation
  5. Press kits
  6. Promotion by the media sponsors and partners
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