Nine talented young designers go forward to the finals of the BE OPEN Awards, which will be presented as part of the think tank’s activities during the 2012 London Design Festival.
see the works here beopenfuture.com/awards/london-awards/be-open-awards-london-2012-finalists
“BE OPEN is about ‘intellectual development’, investing in the creation of added value for future generations. Our programmes are about generating original thinking from the most promising young minds of our time”, said Elena Baturina, founder of BE OPEN.
The winners were selected by a prestigious design industry jury, presided over by Patricia Urquiola (designer and architect), with Tom Cheshire (WIRED magazine associate editor), Daniel Charny (independent curator and director at From Now On), Pei-Ru Keh (design editor of Wallpaper magazine), Vladimir Pirojkov (designer), Noma Bar (graphic artist), Christopher Turner (editor of ICON magazine) and William Knight (100% Design event director). A shortlist of nine has been whittled down from over 300 submissions from 47 countries, including Afghanistan, Cuba, Ireland, South Africa, Iran, Uzbekistan, Lebanon and Vietnam. A winner will be selected in each of the three categories of CAST, FORM, and CITY, with the emphasis being on projects that show strong creative thinking, with the potential to become must-have designs for the future.
The shortlisted work will be showcased on the BE OPEN stand in the international section of 100% Design as part of BE OPEN TO THE SOUND OF THE FUTURE, the think tank’s umbrella theme for their presence at the 2012 London Design Festival.
The shortlist is:
CAST finalists
Alexandra Kharakoz/United Kingdom
Sonic Landscape
Dan Orlovsky/Russia
Moscow-Constructivism
Eszter Ozsvald/USA
SymbiosisO
CITY finalists
ANNA KULIK/Russia
STONE SPRAY
CHAK MING SIN/Hong Kong
EVAPORATIVE COOLING CAPILLARY
CHUNG WO CHAU/Hong Kong
INFLECTED MASSING
FORM finalists
BERNIER SAMUEL/Canada
PROJECT RE_
ERAN GAL-OR/Israel
POETIC MACHINE – 3D PRINTING PORCELAIN
TAEWAN KIM/South Korea
GREEN BUMP
This is the second iteration of the awards scheme that launched in Milan in April 2012. See beopenfuture.com/awards/milan-awards
The BE OPEN Awards programme is part of a series of sound related BE OPEN events taking place during the London Design Festival, an element of the think tank’s broader scheme to explore the five traditional senses – sight, smell, taste, touch and sound – the starting point for research into the next realm, that of the sixth sense, or intuition. Sixth sense design would represent the ultimate synthesis of human sensory perception and technological genius, offering an infinite variety of sensations that would overcome the perceived limitations of design today.
London, as the European capital of 20th century avant-garde music, has been chosen to host sound, while the following critical stopping points on BE OPEN’s global roadmap have been identified as centres for research into the other senses: taste in Milan (Milan Design Week 2013), various projects will take place in other key design cities during the year and the circle will be closed in London for the London Design Festival 2013.
BE OPEN’s events at the 2012 London Design Festival events include:
BE OPEN Sound Portal, an installation in Trafalgar Square where visitors can experience five avant-garde soundscapes over five days
BE OPEN to the Sound of the Future: ‘Sound Design’ Talk at the Hospital Club, in collaboration with WIRED Consulting, (the bespoke events arm of WIRED magazine), Thursday 20 September 18.00-20.00
BE OPEN Sound Portal lunchtime talk at the V&A, Friday 21 September 13.00-14.00
BE OPEN SPACE at Tom Dixon’s Dock, 17-22 September www.tomdixon.net/
Please see www.beopenfuture.com for updates.
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