For the sixth time the Wilhelm Braun-Feldweg Prize for Design Critical Texts has been awarded – with a higher participation than ever since. The prize promotes design students and alumnis whose texts have made a contribution to the design discourse with regards to content and style. At the same time it is a platform and experimental ground for young critical designers in the form of a competition.
At DMY Lucas Verweij will discuss the background and current developments of the design discourse and its new form in digital media with two former awardees and the chairman of the jury.

Open Talk: ›Designer dürfen denken – der bf-preis fördert‹
Participants:
Prof. Egon Chemaitis: designer, co-initiator and chairman of the jury of the bf-prize
Birgit Bauer: designer, author, first awardee, runs the project designkritik.dk, visiting professor at Kunsthochschule Kassel
Florian A. Schmidt: awardee 2006, communication designer, currently studies at the Royal College of Art at the department Critical Writing in Art and Design
Lucas Verweij: journalist, curator and anchorman, was amongst others dean at the Academy for Architecture and City Planning in Rotterdam, lives in Berlin; since this year he is the mentor of the bf-prize

Date: Saturday, June 9, 17h

Adress: Airport Berlin Tempelhof, Open Talk Stage, Hangar 4

›Open Talk: bf-prize‹ is jointly organized with the International Design Center Berlin (IDZ).