A total of 31 products, services and concepts have won over the jury and been nominated for the Bundespreis Ecodesign 2013. The diversity of the submitted projects was impressive: fully recyclable outdoor clothing with a take-back system, a solar kiosk, a wood hybrid building system, and an electric wheel hub drive for commercial vehicles, to name a few. The contest entries were presented to an interdisciplinary jury at a large exhibition at the former Tempelhof airport in Berlin.
President Jochen Flasbarth of the Federal Environment Agency summarised his impressions of this year’s meeting of the jury, saying: “Ecodesign has done outstanding work to improve the environmental features of products while meeting the requirements of good design. The submission of outstanding, creative projects this year again shows what great potential innovative product design has. The Bundespreis provides an important forum for linking design and sustainability."
All nominated projects can now be viewed in an online exhibition at www.bundespreis-ecodesign.de. In addition to current information about the competition and the travelling exhibition of nominated and awarded projects from 2012, you can read background information on eco-design and on the matrix of criteria for award of the prizes.
Suspense is in the air: The winners of the Bundespreis Ecodesign will be announced at an awards ceremony in the atrium of the Federal Ministry for Environment in Berlin on 11 November 2013.
The Federal Ministry for Environment and the Federal Environment Agency award the Bundespreis Ecodesign every year since 2012 in collaboration with IDZ Internationales Design Zentrum Berlin. The initiative is supported by a project advisory council.
Nominees
Read here for information about the projects nominated for the Bundespreis Ecodesign 2013: www.bundespreis-ecodesign.de/de/wettbewerb/2013/nominierte.html
Jury
Werner Aisslinger (designer)
Dr. Kirsten Brodde (author, eco-fashion expert)
Prof. Dr. Rainer Grießhammer (Director, Öko-Institut)
Ursula Heinen-Esser (Parliamentary State Secretary at BMU)
Prof. Günter Horntrich (designer, Professor for Design and Ecology at KISD)
Prof. Dr. Erik Spiekermann (communications designer, typographer and author)
Nicola Stattmann (designer, materials expert)
Jochen Flasbarth (President, UBA)
Advisory Council
Dorothea Hess, Alliance of German Designers (AGD)
Anne Farken, BMW Group DesignworksUSA
Prof. Matthias Held and Sabine Lenk, German Society for Design Theory and Research (DGTF)
Lutz Dietzold, German Design Council
Prof. Philipp Oswalt and Katja Klaus, Bauhaus Dessau Foundation
Prof. Susanne Schwarz-Raacke (product design), Prof. Heike Selmer (fashion design) and Prof. Dr. Zane Berzina (textile and surface design), Berlin Weissensee School of Art (KHB)
Karin-Simone Fuhs, ecosign/Akademie für Gestaltung
Dr. Dietlinde Quack, Öko-Institut
Thomas Wodtke and Hendrik Roch, Fraunhofer Institute for Environmental, Safety, and Energy Technology UMSICHT
Stephan Rabl, Association of German Retail Trade (HDE)
Dr. Dominik Klepper, German Brands Association
Johanna Kardel, Federation of German Consumer Organisations (vzbv)
Development and implementation
Internationales Design Zentrum Berlin e. V. (IDZ)
www.idz.de
