„SYSTEMS: Think Forward“ innovationcompetition 2010/2011
The „SYSTEMS: Think Forward“ competition was launched in order to find an interior shading solution that can be fixed to window frames and window recesses in order to offer flexible textile glare protection and privacy assurance on windows and from different sides.
The product is to convince with regard to innovative technology, an
appealing design and filigree materiality as well as being technically and commercially feasible. The competition was endowed with prizes totalling 16,000 Euros and was open internationally. It was aimed at universities and specialist vocational universities in the areas of design, technical design, architecture and interior design. The projects could have been developed as group academic projects or as individual exercises. They were assessed and honoured by a jury of experts.
1. Prize
1st Prize of 7,000 Euros went to the Eindhoven University of Technology. In “Shadowtricks”, Vinken Teun created an aesthetic object made of three textiles in moving circles, attached to the window by suction fittings. The circles were drawn across or fanned away from each other by small motors that reacted to the intensity of the light, depending upon how much shading was required against any level of glare. To the movie
2. Prize
The “Attraction” project by Anne Scheler, a student at the University of Wismar, was awarded the 2nd Prize of 5,000 Euros. A curtain was suspended by magnetic attraction between two barely-visible metallic strips such that it could be opened from any direction; it could therefore be fitted to the window in a wide variety of ways.
3. Prize
Yvonne Fürst and Benedikt Steiner from the University of Lucerne won 3rd Prize (3,000 Euros) with “Punctum”. They attached a white tulle curtain to the window with green silicon stickers so that it could be draped extremely easily and flexibly.
Special prize
As well as the three winning projects, the jury also awarded a special prize of 1,000 Euros to the “Colourboom” project by Marian Müller from the University of Wismar. The textile object was thrown playfully over a glass plate and attached using suction fittings.
