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Simon Stanislawski, SOFTY, 11.RecyclingDesignpreis – Ausgezeichnete Ideen, 1.12.2024 - 23.3.2025, Marta Herford, © Marta Herford, Foto: Besim Mazhiqi

The Recycling Design Award is one of the most important platforms for sustainable, innovative design and has been honouring creative approaches that develop new, functional and aesthetic objects from supposed waste for over a decade. With over 400 international submissions, this year’s Open Call for the 11th edition of the competition once again impressively demonstrates how recycling and upcycling are establishing themselves as central strategies for resource-saving design, and shows that sustainability is also a design challenge. This ranges from the development of furniture and everyday objects to experimental fashion designs and unusual material research.

A key feature of the award-winning and nominated entries is their interdisciplinary character. The award winners combine craftsmanship with technological expertise, innovation and economic feasibility and question common patterns of consumption. This year’s special prize also shows that recycling is not just an answer to environmental problems – it can also be understood as an artistic and social process. The designs and ideas on show encourage us to rethink the value of resources and to see design as a driving force for social change – not only by highlighting sustainable alternatives, but also by opening up new perspectives for shaping our environment.

The artist and designer Oliver Schübbe has conceived and realised a sustainable installation especially for the exhibition and the presentation of the four award winners and the 23 further nominated ideas.

1. prize: Sebastian Thies, Munich
2. prize: Mareen Baumeister, Berlin
3. prize: Marisa Gaab, Landau
Special prize: SUPERFILIALE Markus Zimmermann, Frankfurt am Main

also with works by: Maike Buthmann, Kim Cordes, Julia Hahnl/Julia Habarda/Frida Teller/Tobi Kauer, Emma Johann/Alissa Knopp/Papoula Kolb, Jessica Koconrek, Lukas Konrad, Lara Landbrecht, Maximilian Lechner, Katherine Victoria Lopez, Anton Orlovius, Alicia Paulsen/Jan-Malte Verlemann/Sarah-Marie Wolfgramm, Benedikt Peirotén, Ana Peper/Linus Mohr, Nicholas Plunkett, Sophia Reißenweber, Ann Cathrin Schönrock, Theresa Schwaiger, Babette Sperling/Ina Goetz, Simon Stanislawski, Lara Stöbe, Apol Temesi, Pieter Van Tulder, Severin Zimmermann

Supported by the district funding of the Senate Department for Culture and Social Cohesion.