seoul design award 2023 calls for final entries on everyday creative sustainability

Seoul Design Award accepts entries until june 28th, 2023

Seoul Design Award continues to grow immensely since its inception as it celebrates its fourth year in 2023. The Korean-based platform showcases the role of design in enriching everyday life and inspiring the daily routine of people around the world, gathering and communicating best practices. The prestigious award is given to designers or organizations whose projects have contributed to a harmonious relationship between people, society and the environment. As the competition grows, so does the panel of experts. designboom’s co-founder Birgit Lohmann joins other international professional in the field with the aim of offering a fair, and thorough evaluation on the submitted designs.

Register and submit your designs before the deadline on June 28th, 2023 – here!

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creativity in the sustainable daily life

The Korean-based platform began as Seoul declared the ‘Human City Design Seoul’ in 2018, embracing the demands of the times for a sustainable urban environment where all citizens can enjoy a creative life overcoming the problems they face. In order to include a wider range of creative examples of sustainable daily life for a better future, the name was changed to ‘Seoul Design Award, for Sustainable Life.’ In 2023, the competition continuous to grow, focusing on sustainability through urban changes. The competition pays attention to design projects in various fields that contain regional backgrounds, processes, results, and visions, and widely publicizes how the projects’ impact, innovation, and inclusiveness are realized for people and society. 

seoul design award’s panel of design experts 

The competition seeks a better tomorrow through design by gathering and spreading efforts of designers and organizations all over the world who are armed with creativity and leaving positive impact. A jury consisting of international design experts, amongst them designboom co-founder Birgit Lohmann, aims to do just that, by overviewing the projects with UNESCO’s SDGs in mind, and the following criteria: Does the theme deal with issues of public design for harmony and sustainability in daily life?; Does it contribute in presenting a vision of a culture and civilization where humanity and the environment coexist?; and Will the project resolve issues through participation and collaboration with potential for global expansion and sharing?

All kinds of projects can participate including Product, Visual, Digital/Multimedia, Space/System, Service/Experience/Social, and many more that fall into the requirements, expanding the winning possibilities for all participants. The 1st place receives the Grand Prize and KRW 50 million, the 2nd place wins the Creativity/Innovation, Participation/Cooperation, or the Inspiration/Impact Prize and KRW 15 million; while the 3rd place gets the Honorable Mention Prize and KRW 5 million. Special mentions are also awarded for the Citizen’s Prize, Research Prize, and Issue of the Year Prize, each of which also receives KRW 5 million.

competition info:

name: Seoul Design Award

submission period deadline: June 28, 2023

review period: July – September, 2023
award ceremony: October – November, 2023