The GREEN GOOD DESIGN Awards 2010

Deadline for applications: 1 November 2009
Submission deadline: 1 December 2009

The Chicago Athenaeum: Museum of Architecture and Design and The European Centre for Architecture Art Design and Urban Studies have joined forces on two continents to present an innovative and challenging new public program: GREEN GOOD DESIGN.

GOOD DESIGN™ was founded in Chicago in 1950 by Eero Saarinen, Charles and Ray Eames, and Edgar Kaufmann, Jr. To promote and foster a greater public understanding and acceptance for Modern Design.

In 2010, six decades later, this new edition of GOOD DESIGN aims to bring a parallel public appreciation and awareness for an equally revolutionary design approach - a new design thinking led by a current generation of visionary architects, designers, urban planners, corporations, governments, individuals, and private and public institutions for a design and a public environment based upon the ideals of energy conservation; the reduction of toxic waste and greenhouse gases; the diminishing dependence on fossil fuels; and a sensitivity for waste, pollution, and the depletion of the world’s energy resources. This new design approach centers on the idea of repairing our worldwide environments with sustainability and for total ecological restoratio .

Now in turn and in 2010, GREEN GOOD DESIGN's goal is to bestow international recognition to those outstanding individuals, companies, organizations, governments, and institutions - together with their products, services, programs, ideas, and concepts - that have forwarded exceptional thinking and inspired greater progress toward a more healthier and more sustainable universe.

Like 1950, when Modern Design was blazing a new direction in design history, GREEN GOOD DESIGN attempts to impact consumer habits, restructure manufacturing output, influence the design of cities and public spaces, and raise a consciousness about our limited global resources and the disappearance of clean air, clean earth, and clean water.

Nominations / Submissions

How Green are you REALLY?

To many, sustainability is little more than a trendy slogan or the latest marketing gimmick.

To leaders in design, industry, manufacturing, and the corporate world, GREEN DESIGN adheres to strict guidelines in order to shape an international agenda and the international community's attitude toward economic, social, and environmental development.

Both organizing insitutions in Europe and America are inviting open submissions to honour design innovation and pioneering achievements in this 2010 Awards Program.

Architects, designers, urban planners, governments, manufacturers, corporations, institutions, organizations, individuals, as well as individual products, buildings, concepts, projects, programmes, and technology are eligible for submission.

A professional jury in the field of sustainability will review submissions and examine their substance and pursuit of excellence and determine the 2008 GREEN GOOD DESIGN Awards accordingly.

Awards are announced in late Spring 2010 to the international press and public.

Awarded individuals, corporations, institutions, products, projects, and programmes form a traveling exhibition in Europe and in the U.S. in 2010 and are published by The Chicago Athenaeum and The European Centre for Architecture Art Design and Urban Studies.

Green Design Criteria

Like the GOOD DESIGN Program of 1950, anything and everything is eligible for submission with the emphasis on the following that has successfully focussed on the development and implementation of enabling instruments that support actual measures to achieve CO2-reduction, energy conservation, renewable energy sources, recycling, sustainability, quality of life and environment, economic viability, and environmental economics and in particular:

• Architecture/Urban Planning/Landscape Architecture
  Skyscrapers, offices, homes, green buildings, green spaces, factories, reforestations, restorations and renovations that achieve sustainable living, working, and recreating environments.
• Product and Graphic Design
  Innovative Green Products that promote energy savings, recycling, and greater sustainability in all sectors of industry from consumer goods, furniture, transportation, equipment, printing and packaging, construction materials to household and business products.
• Corporations
  Companies, developers, manufacturers, contractors, financial parties that have emblazened the path and taken a leadership role toward renewable resources, energy management, recycling, and sustainability.
• Government
  Nations, states, cities, and towns that have promoted energy-awareness, enacted legislation, actual programs, conservation, recycling, preservation, renovation, restoration and redevelopment of their urban, suburban, and rural environments.
• Institutions, Organizations, Universities, Media, NGOs
  Public and private entities that have pioneered new concepts, leadership programmes, public initiatives, public policy, and campaigns for social and economic well-being, the protection of the environment and its resourses, restorative enterprises, public-awareness for an emission free environment, global sustainability, and socially cohesive neighborhoods and cities - from the garden to the planet - taking into account the environment's impact for future generations.
• New Technology
  Next generation instruments and devices that determine and manage greater optimum energy standards, efficiency, sustainability, recycling, life-cycle and facility management.
• Programmes and Research
  Innovative and inspiring programmes based on "best practice" results.
• People
  Individuals who are leaders, pioneers, and innovators in GREEN DESIGN.

Nomination / Application 2010

Deadline for applications: 1 November 2009
Submission deadline for project and supporting documents: 1 December 2009

Fax or email the registration form together with support materials to The Chicago Athenaeum (see below).

Further Information:
The Chicago Athenaeum
Museum of Architecture and Design
The Historic Fulton Brewery Building
601 South Prospect Street
Galena • Illinois 61036 • USA
Tel.: +1 815 / 777-4444
Fax: +1 815 / 777-2476
eMail: info@chicagoathenaeum.org
web: www.chi-athenaeum.org
Attn: Lary L. Sommers, Director of Administration/Marketing

The European Centre for Architecture Art Design and Urban Studies
Dublin 2 • Ireland
Tel. / Fax: +353 / (0) 1670 8781
eMail: info@europeanarch.eu
web: www.europeanarch.eu/awards.html