Designverse Awards 2024-2025 is Calling for Projects！

*New categories and awards for "Space - Concept" and "Product - Concept".

Designverse Ranking is an important component of the Designverse platform, developed based on global design awards and professional media data and algorithms. It fills the market awareness gap for development and design agencies. Through user co-construction and continuous collection, refinement, extraction, and summarization of actual projects and events, it allows global development agencies and design resource agencies pursuing beauty and quality to connect. 

Designverse Awards is an award platform that connects design resource agencies and development agencies, accurately targeting the design resource pool of design subfields for development agencies, and empowering design resource agencies. Through the unique functions of big data and data monitoring, search ranking, resource linking, and brand promotion provided by the award platform, it allows them to reflect on their position in the design industry and solidify their brand through the promotion and publicity services of the award platform. 

Designverse Awards aims to recognize design agencies, brands/companies, and highly influential events that have made outstanding contributions to the big design industry chain. Through rankings' digital filtering and platform empowering by content promotion, we provide participating agencies with long-term brand growth incubation and consulting services, support originality with awards, and help participating agencies enhance the value of their digital assets, enabling them to be discovered and recognized by the industry, and to tap into a wider range of potential business opportunities. Furthermore, the award serves as a platform center for publicizing intellectual property rights, assisting in confirming the publication dates of entries' intellectual property, supporting and encouraging the originality of entries, and providing support and endorsement for the rights protection of entries.

*Design resource agencies: including scheme design, technical consultants, professional consultants, specialized consultants, operation consultants, etc.

*Development agencies: such as government, government development platforms, developers, brand owners from various industries, high-quality private owners, etc.

The final jury panel of the Designverse Awards consists of industry leaders who have a concrete understanding of the big design industry ecosystem, accumulated cooperation experience, and judgment, as well as specialized judges with international perspectives and experience leading renowned works. Together, they evaluate the "Designverse Awards Jury Grand Prize" in various subcategories of space, product, and brands/major events categories, and select the "Designverse Awards Outstanding Prize" from them.

The "Designverse Awards Outstanding Prize" includes six Outstanding Prize in space category (architecture, landscape, interiors, technical consultants, professional consultants, specialized consultants), four Outstanding Prize in product category (residential, office, social and leisure, transportation), and two Outstanding Prize for annual major events. 

Members of the final jury panel have the right to recommend 2 participating agencies directly shortlisted for Nomination Prize, and also have the right to set up Special Jury Single Prize. 

The final jury panel of 2024-2025 Designverse Awards is composed of 36 specialized jurors. We now officially announce the 28 specialized jurors. The remaining 8 jury members will be announced in due course.

See the final jury panel on this page.

Categories

The Designverse Awards sets four categories of awards for space, product, and brands/major events categories, namely Nomination Prize, Special Honor Prize, Jury Grand Prize, and Outstanding Prize. For the Designverse Awards 2024-2025, new categories of awards have been added for space and product categories, including Concept Nomination Prize, Concept Special Honor Prize, Concept Jury Grand Prize, and Concept Outstanding Prize.

A. Targeting all space design resource agencies, the entry categories include scheme (such as architecture, landscape, interior), technical consultants (such as structural, MEP, transportation, etc.), professional consultants (such as curation, multimedia, signage and wayfinding, etc.), specialized consultants (such as pre-planning consultant, sustainable engineering consultant, etc.) and their respective subcategories, a total of 94.

Space Category – Concept

Targeting all space design resource agencies, the entry categories include scheme (such as architecture, landscape, interior), technical consultants (such as structural, MEP, transportation, etc.), professional consultants (such as curation, multimedia, signage and wayfinding, etc.), specialized consultants (such as pre-planning consultant, sustainable engineering consultant, etc.) and their respective. subcategories, a total of 94.

B. Product Category

Targeting all enterprises/brands of product category, the entry categories include residential (such as home building materials, home furniture, household appliances, etc.), office (such as office supplies, office equipment, office furniture, etc.), social and leisure (such as social space supplies, cultural space supplies, etc.), transportation (such as vehicles, boats, aviation, etc.) and their respective subcategories, a total of 24.

Product Category - Concept

Targeting all enterprises/brands of product category, the entry categories include residential (such as home building materials, home furniture, household appliances, etc.), office (such as office supplies, office equipment, office furniture, etc.), social and leisure (such as social space supplies, cultural space supplies, etc.), transportation (such as vehicles, boats, aviation, etc.) and their respective subcategories, a total of 24.

C. Brands/Major Events Category

Targeting all major events planning/operating agencies, it is mainly divided into four categories：corporate/brand (such as awards, exhibitions, promotional activities, etc.), regional/city (such as art festivals, biennials/triennials, trade shows, etc.), international projects (such as art festivals, biennials/triennials, awards, etc.), and domestic projects (such as art festivals, biennials/triennials, media, etc.).

1. The Designverse Awards are open for global registration. Spatial design agencies, product design agencies/brands, and brands/major events planning/operating agencies are all eligible to apply.

2. Participating works must have been completed within the past five years. Works completed/purchased/used between April 1, 2019 and the deadline for registration. You can have your submitted works publicly announced on the official Designverse website after registration and submission.

3. There is no time or space limit for concept works, such as past bidding, unrealized designs, projects under construction or designs that have not been put into production.

4. Participants must be legal entities or individuals with primary responsibility, including but not limited to manufacturers and distributors of goods, building owners, software or media suppliers, project developers, and research sponsors.

5. For works involving multiple participants, joint registration is allowed. One party must be selected as the participant, and all other members must be registered on the Designverse platform.

Step 1: Online Submission of Participating Works

Login to the official website of Designverse (www.designverse.com.cn) to register your agency and upload participating works.

*Complete the agency's homepage information, including the company's Chinese and English names, company logo, company introduction, expertise subfields, etc.

*Complete the content of the participating works, including well-illustrated texts, project information, image library, etc.

*For registration and uploading guide, please click the link. 

Step 2: Send an Email to the Official Email Address of the Awards Committee

After completing the first step of online submission of participating works, add the WeChat account (DesignverseAwards) and send an email to the official email address of the Awards Committee: [email protected]. The subject of the email should be: Confirmation of Registration for Designverse Awards + Name of the Participating Agency + Name of the Participating Work.

Step 3: The Awards Committee Confirming Your Registration and Sending Registration Payment Form

After receiving the registration email and confirming it, the Awards Committee will send the registration payment form via email. Participants are required to complete the payment before the deadline specified.

Participants who fail to make the payment within the specified period will have their registration canceled.

Jury Members’ Names & Titles

Tony Brown, Tenured Professor at ENSBA and Director of The Research PhD Program

Hugo Chang, Founder & Content Director of TogetherDesign

Chen Lei, Shanghai Urban Architecture Design Co., Ltd., Senior Partner, Director | General Manager

Wei Ding, Founder of The MOMA Design, Director of ECUST's Art and Design Institute

Yuxiang Fu, Sculptor, Oil Painter, Internaitonal Independent Curator, Beishang Contemporary Art Research Institute

Gaton Gou, Go Together Community Founder, Building Materials Brand Alliance Co-founder

Ninghui Hao, Dean of School of Design at Central Academy of Fine Arts, Professor, PhD Supervisor, Post-doctoral Co-supervisor

Genxiang He, EKA·Tianwu Cultural Strategy Consultant and Art Director, Vice Chairman fo Shanghai Creative Designers Association

Tomus Hu, General Manager of Strategy, Moorgen Group

Xiangming Huang, Board Member and Chief Architect of Tianhua Group

Jiangbo Jin, Chairman of Shanghai Designers Association, Executive Dean of Academy of Fine Arts,Shanghai University

Adam Li Mengzhou, Assistant General Manager of Commercial Design, China Property of Hongkong Land

Rui Liang, Deputy Chief Architect, R&D Center, Chengdu Widehorizon, Principal, Luxelakes·A8 Design Center

Michael.C.Michell, Founder of MCM Group International

David Mohney, Dean of Michael Graves College at Kean University

Tao Pan, Founder & Partner, Urbaneer

Yuan Qian, Director of Vanke Urban Research

Marius A. Ryrko, Managing Director of Gerber Architekten International, Executive Director and Design Director of Gerber Architekten Shanghai

Bing Shen, Deputy General Manager of Shanghai Shangfang Chengxin Enterprise Development Co., Ltd.

Yi Tang, Managing Director, Poggenpohl China

Hanson Wang, Saint-Gobain APAC CBDC & Saint-Gobain Inspace CEO

Ken Wai, Aedas Fellow, Global Design Principal, Honorary Chair of RIBA China Chapter

Yiming Wei, Founder of YouArch

Jerry Wu, Founder of Interscape Design Associates

Jian Wu, Vice President of Haier Smart Home, General Manger of Haier Innovation Design Center

Isa Ye, Founder of YoungBird, Founder of designverse

Zhun Zhang, Co-founder of AND Office, Senior Engineer of TJAD

Shen Zhuang, Professor, School of Design, Shanghai Jiao Tong University, Co-founder and Principal Architect, Atelier Archmixing

Fees:

Regular Registration Fee: RMB 3680

Extension Registration Fee: RMB 4680

Schedule:

Regular Submission: 2024.6.11-2024.11.11

Delayed Submission: 2024.11.12-2025.1.26

Deadline for Extension Registration Fee Payment: 2025.1.27

The above times are based on Beijing Time.

Initial Review Stage: 2024.3.15-2025.2.28

Final Review Stage: 2025.3.1-2025.3.20

Announcement of Prizes: 2025.3.24-2025.4.8

Prizes:

Nomination Prize

Special Honor Prize

Jury Grand Prize

Outstanding Prize

Find out the registration link on the website. Detailed competition brief can be accessed from this page. 

For more information, visit the competition's website.

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