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The Curry Stone Design Prize promotes and honors designers who address critical social needs. The Prize champions the belief that design can be a powerful force for improving lives and strengthening communities. It is intended to inspire both designers and a broad audience by telling stories of change agents in short documentary videos. In addition to the videos, the prize gives no-strings-attached cash awards.
Over the past six years, the CSDP has awarded 23 three awards to designers who’s work range from massive post-disaster reconstructions, to using plastic bottles to bring light to informal settlements. Their projects illustrate a fresh view on how design can learn from the local context and make projects that, while solving urgent issues, are also empowering local communities.
Emiliano Gandolfi, Secretary of the Curry Stone Design Prize, will present more in detail some of these inspirational projects, with a specific focus to those projects that address the current housing crisis. Housing provides essential shelter, but also gives form to the social relations in our cities. It represents and embodies the materiality of civic politics and thus demonstrates the uneven nature of spatial justice at local and global scale. The Dutch artist Jeanne van Heeswijk – winner in 2012 of the CSDP - will therefore present two of her most recent projects that are rethinking the future of their derelict neighborhoods in Rotterdam and Liverpool.
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Learning Objectives
- Be inspired on how design can be an essential tool for social change and for the improvements of people’s lives.
- Learn about the work of designers that were recognized with one the of most prominent international design prizes.
- Become aware of how design can be environmentally, socially and commercially sustainable.
- Discover how designers are addressing local issues and empowering local communities to take action and ownership in their own neighborhoods.
- Discover the how the award winning Dutch artist Jeanne van Heeswijk is using public art to address issues as eviction, marginalization and poverty in suburban neighborhoods in Rotterdam (The Netherlands) and Liverpool (UK).
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Speakers
Emiliano Gandolfi is an architect and independent curator, co-founder of Cohabitation Strategies and Secretary of the Curry Stone Design Prize. His focus has been on how design can become an agency of local empowerment and of a renewed urban consciousness. He has designed and curated exhibitions for institutions of international significance, including the Venice Architecture Biennial, the International Architecture Biennale Rotterdam, the National Building Museum in Washington D.C., and Evento in Bordeaux. Over the past years he has been involved in a wide range of projects, exhibitions and conferences that dealt with methodologies and interventions for urban transformation, on both theoretical and practical level.
Jeanne van Heeswijk is a visual artist who creates contexts for interaction in public spaces. Her projects distinguish themselves through a strong social involvement. With her work Van Heeswijk stimulates and develops cultural production and creates new public (meeting-)spaces or remodels existing ones. To achieve this she often works closely with artists, designers, architects, software developers, governments and citizens. She regularly lectures on topics such as urban renewal, participation and cultural production. In 2012 van Heeswijk won the Curry Stone Design Prize.