The Design that Educates Awards (DtEA) investigate the educational potential of architecture and design. The ability to communicate the implemented solutions and features is the main theme of the awards. Such an informational layer of design and architecture provides an important (yet not fully explored) opportunity for a dialog between the user and the designer. The result—a new type of learning environment—provides a space for the exploration of both the design itself and its relation to the vaster context. Each year, the esteemed panel of judges will select the most outstanding examples. The objective of the awards is to recognize, showcase, and promote globally the best ideas and implementations of architecture and design that educate.
Jury
- Maria Aiolova (designer, educator, leader of Arup University, cofounder of Terreform ONE)
- Prof. Shingo Ando (designer, educator, professor at Kyoto Arts and Crafts University)
- David Basulto (architect, founder of ArchDaily)
- Dominic Harris (architect, artist, founder and creative director of Cinimod Studio)
- Matthias Hollwich (architect, AIA, principal at Hollwich Kushner, cofounder of Architizer.com)
- Prof. Barbara Holzer (architect, lecturer, cofounder and director of Holzer Kobler Architekturen)
- Mikiya Kobayashi (furniture and product designer, founder and director of Mikiya Kobayashi Inc.)
- Dr. Peter Kuczia (architect, founder of Kuczia Architects, initiator of the Design that Educates Awards)
- Prof. Carlo Ratti (architect, founding partner at Carlo Ratti Associati, director at MIT Senseable City Lab)
- Amandus Samsøe Sattler (architect, founding partner at Allmann Sattler Wappner Architekten)
- Sarang Sheth (industrial designer, content writer and editor-in-chief at YankoDesign.com)
- Prof. Tobias Wallisser (architect, cofounder of LAVA Laboratory for Visionary Architecture)
