EINLADUNG ZUR PREISVERLEIHUNG UND AUSSTELLUNGSERÖFFNUNG

17. FEBRUAR 2012, 19 UHR IM MARTA HERFORD

Begrüßung
Dr. Fritz Brickwedde, Generalsekretär Deutsche Bundesstiftung Umwelt (DBU)
Roland Nachtigäller, Künstlerischer Direktor Marta Herford

anschließend:

Preisverleihung Schüler/innen:
Dr. Birgit Osterwald, Direktorin VHS Gütersloh
Angela Kahre, Marta Herford

Preisverleihung Designer/innen:
Dr. Fritz Brickwedde, Generalsekretär Deutsche Bundesstiftung Umwelt (DBU) und Mitglied der Jury

AUSSTELLUNG IM MARTA HERFORD
18. FEBRUAR BIS 1. APRIL 2012

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Background

The RecyclingdesignAward is an „open“ competition without a limit of age. All creatives and designers with professional or semi-professional education are invited to forward there objects or designs.

A maximum of three designs/objects can be forwarded by each participant or team. Closing date will be October 31st, 2011. The Jury will make there decisions at the end of Novemer 2011. All participants will be informed per e-mail at the beginning of December 2011.

Aim of the Recycling Design Award

Through the use of „discarded things“ - such as remnant material from industrie and manufactories, discarded materials„ rubbish“ - seemingly useless things should be made usable again. Bearing in mind the social criteria these products thereby developed should be sold also by job creating organizations  or similar institutions. The production of “clever”, “beautiful” and “useful” designed objects which awarded a prize conduces to the environment and is a contribution for employment promotion.

The Range of Required Developments

The aim ist to discover and uncover the so-called „hidden meaning of things beeing thrown away or chucked away“ („der verborgene Sinn weggeworfender Dinge“). The seemingly useless and disposed-off things should be re-used to create new objects. The range of required developments stretches from decorative articles, furniture, clothes/textiles, to various other accessoiries.

Materials

The objects and articels must be designed and made out of garbage and/or residues from industry and manufactures for our everyday use or to be used for decoration and furnishing. Exclused are all returnable materials. For participants from Germany: those materials with the „green dot“ are exclused either („green dot“/“Grüner Punkt“ is a special german collection system for packing material of consumer goods).

Rating Criteria

These are the rating criterias for the RecyclingDesignAward:

• Quality of lay out / form
• utility value
• environmental compatibility
• novelty and future potential
• Objects should also be manufactured within the job creation scheme or by workshops which are able to produce those objects in series of smaller or bigger quantities
• practicability also for production by physical or psychological disabled persons, youth workshops or job creation initiatives