After receiving an award for Looping Landscape Kindergarten project, we were asked by the Design Educates Awards team to reflect on what designing and educating means to us. Here is our quote.

To design is to explore

and play with ideas,
to find solutions
or make propositions.
To educate is to communicate
and exchange knowledge
and experience.
Through design and education
we can expand possibilities
for growing better,
whilst being open to welcome
the unexpected.

The Design Educates Awards annually recognize the best projects that respond to complex social and environmental contexts and carry educational value.

The awards look for what will have a lasting impact on users and the environment and showcase the world's best ideas and realizations that can educate.

The 2022 edition attracted almost 400 applicants from 30 different countries, and the jury was joined by international experts including Prof. Toyo Itō, Jette Cathrin Hopp, Prof. Winy Maas, Jakob Lange, and more.

Entries were evaluated based on the following criteria: overall idea and implementation, the potential for educational influence, effectiveness and quality of the informative layer, aesthetics, quality of presentation, visionary approach, originality, feasibility, and comprehensiveness.

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