Lastu Chosen as Recipient of the Design Educates Awards
Lastu, the new education building for the STEP Professional Training Center receives a Bronze Prize in the international Design Edecates Awards. The “Design Educates Awards” aim to recognize works that can change our behavior – and thus the world – even if this change is quiet and gradual.
The Design Educates Awards annually recognize the best projects that respond to complex social and environmental contexts and carry educational value. The awards look for what will have a lasting impact on users and the environment and showcase the world’s best ideas and realizations that can educate.
Each year, the esteemed judges select outstanding ideas and implementations in architectural design, product design, and universal design. The awards are hosted by the Laka Foundation, a non-profit organization and a worldwide network focused on social impact via exceptional design and architecture.
The Best Designs that Educate of 2024
The results of the 2024 edition have just announced. This year, the award attracted applicants from 50 different countries.
The winners have been picked by an international jury consisting of Prof. Toyo Itō, Prof. Benedetta Tagliabue, Prof. Fuensanta Nieto, Prof. Rainer Mahlamäki, Prof. Kerstin Thompson, Prof. Thomas Schroepfer, Prof. Barbara Holzer, Julie Payette, David Basulto, Prof. Masayo Ave, Aidin Ardjomandi, Zhang Ke, Myeong-kyu, and Dr. Peter Kuczia.
Entries were evaluated based on the following criteria: overall idea and implementation, the potential for educational influence, effectiveness and quality of the informative layer, aesthetics, quality of presentation, visionary approach, originality, feasibility, and comprehensiveness. In addition, the submitted ideas had to refer to the awards’ theme and highlight the educational potential of design.
The awards were granted in a ceremony held during the Architecture in Foyer 2024 worldwide conference at the Solarlux Campus in Germany (Melle, Lower Saxony, Germany) on September 19-20, 2024. The event included aslo an exhibition of the awarded projects, lectures by distinguished architects and designers, laureates’ presentations, workshops, and networking opportunities.