#25 Winner Recent Talk: Continuing steps toward the future

2024. 6. 14.

Seoul Design Award 2024 Winners Workshop

Stories after winning the Seoul Design Award

The Seoul Design Award continues to introduce award-winning works of the past so that sustainable design can become widely known and have a more significant influence.

To this end, we continually network with award winners. It is an opportunity to share what each person is up to and how the award-winning works have positively impacted society so far. Sharing news about designers actively working in their respective countries is a valuable opportunity to give each other courage and support.💪

Since the Seoul Design Award 2019 took its first step, past winners over the past four years have participated. What activities are the awardees currently engaged in, and how is the project now?

*Click the winning work's name, and then you can learn the details.

Winners workshop 👀

🏆 Kumulus Amphora(2023) ⎸ Zouhair Ben Jannet

Interesting things have happened since winning the Seoul Design Award. A school with approximately 1,000 students received a request to order 20 units of Amphora. The school was located in an area with poor access to drinking water. Through cooperation between the school and the authorities, Amphoras were supplied to the school so that students could drink fresh water. This request for orders reinforces our belief that design can have a truly positive impact and change people's lives. Through this experience, I decided to come up with a design that was not only functional but also friendly and warm.

🏆 Let It Bee(2023) ⎸ Sinae Song

After winning the Seoul Design Award, my advisor approved the Let It Bee project as a doctoral research topic. In the future, we will develop deeper into this topic and come back with a more developed project. Winning here has given me even more confidence in my research capabilities and my ability to devise solutions for a better future. This led me to an internship at UNDP, where all sustainable design initiatives originated. I am grateful to be able to contribute to creating a sustainable future through winning the Seoul Design Award.

🏆JERRYCAN BAG(2023) ⎸ Joong Yeol Park

Jerrycan bags are designed solely for carrying water bottles. We improved the design after seeing children use it as a school bag. Be safe when carrying water bottles or going to school. Also, with support from KOICA funding, we will begin constructing a sustainable design center in Uganda in June. This design center focuses not only on sewing skills but also on start-up education and design education. We hope women here will become designers and learn how to change their lives through design.

🎙️House of Dreams(2021) Recent Talk_Peter Hasdell

🏆 The New Face of Batik Lasem Industry(2023) ⎸ Yosepin Sri Ningsih

Our project deals with how to establish a new system in the Indonesian Batik industry. The prize money was used to set up a workshop for the industry earlier this year. For now, I want to focus on driving the continued development of research and fostering new approaches to the fashion design curriculum. Indonesia's traditional culture is currently experiencing a major crisis. That's why we want to raise awareness of this issue among students and improve our culture in a better, more sustainable way.

🏆 Airhead(2023) ⎸ Vanja Garaj

The Airhead Project was a British government-funded project that utilized interesting ideas from startup companies. So, we worked with a startup company that created the basic idea for the product. We worked on development with the company for about nine months to a year and ultimately raised about 600,000 pounds through crowdfunding to begin actual production.

🎙️Dunoon Learning and Innovation Project(2019) Recent Talk_Liezel Kruger-Fountain

🏆 House of Dreams(2021) ⎸ Peter Hasdell

After the dream house, I worked with a local NGO to participate in the design and construction of a building for a Yazidi refugee camp. We proposed building a community center to provide space for the local community and children. The story experienced in the Dream House project also served as the starting point for this refugee camp. We provided technical training and a small stipend to those who had lost their professional skills. It allowed refugees to learn new skills that were better suited to living in their given climate.

🏆 Dunoon Learning and Innovation Project(2019) ⎸ Liezel Kruger-Fountain

After winning the Seoul Design Award, the COVID-19 pandemic broke out, and Dunoon was the place where the first COVID-19 case was discovered in South Africa. This brought a completely different element to the design thinking process. It was a time when the overall concept of a design thinking system was very important, as people were unable to move around in places where space was limited. With what we learned, we thought about ways to solve various problems, and we are moving beyond just one district and joining forces across all regions to join us on our journey toward a more sustainable world. We aim to use the surrounding environment and places to build the community's capabilities and look into ways to convey sustainable design through the results created through the circulation of education and strengthened capabilities.