Themed Shifting Boundaries, former award winners Marcella Hansch, Tobias Becker and Lea Schücking will present their projects and discuss, among other things, how good ideas can be put into practice. The discussion will be moderated by Liza Sander, who researches and teaches on the topics of circular design and circular society at HTW Berlin and HfK Bremen.

Please note: The presentation will be held in German!

On 30 November, the winners of the Bundespreis Ecodesign 2020 will be announced in a digital award ceremony starting at 17.00.

More information: bundespreis-ecodesign.de/en

The German Federal Ecodesign Award is looking for products, services and concepts that are outstanding in their design, their ecological quality and their innovative approach.

Participants can submit their projects to this years' competition until April 6.

Further information: Bundespreis Ecodesign/Award.

At the award ceremony, Federal Environment Minister Svenja Schulze honoured this year's prizewinners. For invited guests only. More information at: bundespreis-ecodesign.de

From October 25 to 27, the touring exhibition with the nominees and winners 2018 will be presented at Designers' Open in Leipzig.

On 16 September, the jury of the Federal Ecodesign Award will meet in 'feldfünf - den Projekträume im Metropolenhaus' to examine the submissions for the year 2019 and then open around 130 projects to the public in an exhibition from 17 to 22 September. Admission is free of charge.

Location:
feldfünf
Fromet-und-Moses-Mendelsohn-Platz 7-8
10969 Berlin

Opening hours:
Di 17.09, Mi 18.09., Fr 20.09. 14:00 – 18:00
Do 19.09. 12:00 – 20:00
Sa 21.09., So 22.09. 10:00 – 18:00

From April 11 to May 22, the touring exhibition with the nominees and winner 2018 will be presented at designtransfer (Berlin University of the Arts) in Berlin.

For more information about the German Federal Ecodesign Award and the touring exhibition, please visit: bundespreis-ecodesign.de

Location
designtransfer
Berlin University of the Arts
Einsteinufer 43-53
10587 Berlin-Charlottenburg

The kick-off event for the opening of the touring exhibition take place at Scala in Ludwigsburg on 11 February 2019.

From 12 February till 10 March we are showcasing the exhibition of the winners and nominees 2018 at the MIK Museum Information Kunst in Ludwigsburg.

Please RSVP here: koala.kdrs.de

For more information about the German Federal Ecodesign Award and the touring exhibition, please visit: bundespreis-ecodesign.de

From October 16 to November 4, the exhibition "New Conceptions" with the winners and nominees of the German Federal Ecodesign Award 2017 will be presented at the Grassi Museum für Angewandte Kunst in Leipzig.

Program:

October 21, 4 pm:
Guided tour with Sabine Epple (curator GRASSI Museum of Applied Arts)

October 30, 6 pm:
Lecture "dispose – reuse – recycle. Strategies, difficulties and potentials for the development of sustainable products", Prof. Mareike Gast (Burg Giebichenstein University of Art and Design Halle)

From May 29 to June 3, the exhibition "New Conceptions" with the winners and nominees of the German Federal Ecodesign Award 2017 will be part of the 30th Coburg Design Days.

Details about the program will be available soon.

The German Federal Ecodesign Award is looking for products, services and concepts that convince through design quality and ecological credibility.

Projects can be submitted from January 15 to April 9, 2018 online (in German language) via: bundespreis-ecodesign.de

The kick-off event for the environmental communication project and the opening of the touring exhibition take place in Ludwigsburg on January 15, 2018.
From January 15 till February 18 we are showcasing the exhibition of the winners and nominees of the German Federal Ecodesign Award 2017 at the MIK Museum Information Kunst in Ludwigsburg.

On February 12, 2018, Dr. Ulrike Eberle will conduct a workshop on the topic "Ecodesign: Evaluating products and services on environmental and sustainable aspects" at MIK Museum Information Kunst in Ludwigsburg. Participation will be for free.

To register please send an e-mail to medien@ludwigsburg.de .

From 15 September till 19 November we are showcasing our exhibition "More than beautiful: The winners and nominees of the German Federal Ecodesign Award 2016" at the Designhaus in Darmstadt.
The vernissage takes place on 29 September.

The awards ceremony takes place on 27 November 2017 in the Federal Environment Ministry. Admission by invitation only.

During the annual designerinnen forum conference the Designhaus Darmstadt will offer a workshop on "Digital tools for a sustainable development" by Stefan Bohle (futurestrategy).

Application: designerinnen-forum.org

During the annual designerinnen forum conference the Designhaus Darmstadt will offer a lecture on "The matrix of more than beautiful" by Dorothea Hess, who will be talking about evaluating environment and design, product-life-cycles, and the effect on every-day life culture as well as the process and criteria of conducting evaluations according to the sustainability-codex.

Application: designerinnen-forum.org

On 12 und 13 September the jury exhibition of this year's competition will be open to public visit. The museum's entry fee amounts to 8 Euro (reduced 4 Euro).

Location:
Kunstgewerbemuseum Berlin
Sonderausstellungsbereich
Matthäikirchplatz, 10785 Berlin

On 12 und 13 September the jury exhibition of this year's competition will be open to public visit. The museum's entry fee amounts to 8 Euro (reduced 4 Euro).

Location:
Kunstgewerbemuseum Berlin
Sonderausstellungsbereich
Matthäikirchplatz, 10785 Berlin

On 12 September, a guided tour through the exhibition of this year's competition will take place in the special exhibition area of ​​the Kunstgewerbemuseum Berlin from 10 am to 12 pm. The tour will be in german language.

Please register via the calender on the German Federal Ecodesign Award’s website calendar: www.bundespreis-ecodesign.de/de/calendar

The museum's entry fee amounts to 8 Euro (reduced 4 Euro).

Location:
Kunstgewerbemuseum Berlin
Sonderausstellungsbereich
Matthäikirchplatz, 10785 Berlin

The opening of the touring exhibition "more than beautiful" at Federal German Environment Agency in Dessau takes place on 13 July 2017. Speakers will be Dr. Thomas Holzmann, Vice President of the Federal German Environment Agency, and Dr. Claudia Perren, Director of the Bauhaus Dessau Foundation. The exhibition with the winners and nominees of the German Federal Ecodesign Award 2016 will be shown at the UBA foyer until the end of august 2017.

For directions and opening hours please visit: umweltbundesamt.de

At 17 July there will be a workshop about ecodesign in design education for free at the German Environment Agency in Dessau. It is open for companies, design teachers, students as well as designers who are interested in sustainable design. The workshop is at no charge and will be held in German language.

More information
Registration

In cooperation with Berlin Partner for Economy and technology, IDZ arranges an event in the context of OSCEdays Berlin 2017 focussed on circular design: how can designers contribute to closed loop recycling management? It includes lectures, best practice examples, a discussion, a world cafe and information about aids for projects.

Programme: community.oscedays.org

To participate for free, please register via hannes.lebert@berlin-partner.de with your name and institution or company.

Further information about the OSCEdays: oscedays.org

Sustainable design requires knowledge and experience of new materials. On 30 of May the BAU International Berlin and IDZ invites for a lecture focussed on producing eco-friendly leather.

Frank Fiedler, CEO of HELLER-LEDER GmbH & Co. KG, talks about tanning and graftage of high-quality leather. HELLER-LEDER sets a high value on ecological dyeing using leaves of olive trees.

Sustainable design requires knowledge and experience of new materials. On 23 of May the University of Applied Sciences BAU International invites for a lecture focussed on dying woods.

TABU, the world leader in dyeing wood introduces their sophisticated and advanced technologies. In +MATERIAL seminar, TABU and Prof. Alessandra Angelini, the long term experimental research partner of TABU, will present their state-of-the art products, sharing their stories how to explore the potentials of natural-industrial materials to create one of the most innovative wood product in the world.

bauinternational-berlin.de

On 11 Mai the exhibition “More than beautiful” will be shown in the framework of the conference „Wider die Verschwendung III“ of the German Federal Environment Agency at Jerusalemkirche Berlin.

Registration to the conference „Wider die Verschwendung III“
Catering expenses: 20,00 €

The kick-off event for the environmental communication project and the opening of the touring exhibition take place at Scala in Ludwigsburg on 20st March at 7 p.m.

From 21st March till 09th April we are showcasing the exhibition of the winners and nominees 2016 at the MIK Museum Information Kunst in Ludwigsburg.

On March 27, 2017, Dr. Ulrike Eberle will conduct a workshop on the topic "Ecodesign: Evaluating products and services on environmental and sustainable aspects" at MIK Museum Information Kunst in Ludwigsburg. Participation will be for free.

To register please send an e-mail to medien@ludwigsburg.de .

The "Museumspause" is a guided tour through the exhibition "More than beautiful: The winners and nominees of the German Federal Ecodesign Award 2016" by Tanino Bellanca. It starts at 12.30 am and costs 5 €, coffee included.