Social Design Award 2019: Wanted: Good Ideas for Living the Future!

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For the Social Design Award by SPIEGEL ONLINE and SPIEGEL WISSEN, the best proposals and projects for the future of living are sought.

The competition

Detached house? Mehrgenerationenhaus? Cooperative? Community? What fits in with our lifestyles, what makes social life possible in a multiple dwelling, how should we build a new one, and how can we adapt existing ones? Specifically, how do we want to live?

And this is precisely the theme of the Social Design Award, which SPIEGEL WISSEN and SPIEGEL ONLINE, in cooperation with BAUHAUS, are organizing for the sixth time. We are looking for the best ideas and projects for living the future. This can be architectural designs, but also existing or planned projects, in which it is about new forms of living, about community. The deadline for submissions is 31 August 2019. An expert jury and the readers of SPIEGEL Wissen and SPIEGEL ONLINE will each select a winning proposal. The winners of the Jury Prize and the Audience Award are both awarded the Social Design Award, endowed with € 2,500 per category.

Which of the best ideas and projects are decided by a jury and you as a reader. Because at the Social Design Award two winners are chosen. One of the readers of SPIEGEL ONLINE choose from a shortlist, and one selects the jury.

We are happy if you join!

The jury

Photo: Thomas Schweigert

Friedrich von Borries
Artist and Professor of Design Theory at the College of Fine Arts Hamburg

Jolanthe Kugler
Author and curator at the Vitra Design Museum in Weil am Rhein

Thorsten Dörting
Blattmacher, SPIEGEL ONLINE

Marcus Wegener
Managing Director BAUHAUS Nord

Photo: Torsten Kollmer

Marianne Wellershoff
Author at SPIEGEL WISSEN

submission form

Click here for the submission form

How is the competition going?

The jury selects the best ideas from the contributions, which will be presented at the end of September 2019 at SPIEGEL ONLNE. Readers can choose their favorite there. The winners will be announced on 12th December in SPIEGEL WISSEN 4/2019 and also on SPIEGEL ONLINE.

Deutsche Version: We are looking for good ideas for how we want to live in the future!