Event Details

The Trieste Contemporanea International Design Contest 2021 is open! Set up in 1995, the Trieste Contemporanea International Design Contest is advertised every two years by the Trieste Contemporanea Committee. The 2021 edition, under the auspices of CEI (Central European Initiative), aims to reflect on the individual contributions we can make to sustainable development. Basic issues of concern are how to effectively change ourselves and increase our responsibility to others and to our planet.

The competition is open to designers from the 17 Central Eastern European Countries adehering to the CEI and from the Baltic Countries, Austria, Kosovo, Germany, and Turkey. Once the participation terms are up, an international jury selects among the most interesting works the winners and a number of projects shown in a conclusive exhibition in Trieste, Italy.


BASICS – 14th International Design Contest Trieste Contemporanea
The competition deadline is midnight (italian time) of the 12th December 2021.
The entry is free.

Designers from 24 Central Eastern European countries are called to propose and design a basic object fit for serviceable use, iconic of the process of change underway. Contestants are asked to conceive an original and innovative item of contemporary design taking into account sustainable development objectives while reflecting on new meanings and purposes, which also objects and tools take when addressing sustainable goals or facing contingencies (e.g. as it occurs during an unprecedented outbreak).

Prizes


The works SELECTED by the jury will be published in an online catalogue on the Trieste Contemporanea website.
CEI PRIZE 2021, for the best design from one of the non-EU CEI countries: € 3000.
GILLO DORFLES PRIZE / FIRST PRIZE TRIESTE CONTEMPORANEA 2021, for the best design 2021: € 4000.
BEBA PRIZE 2021, for the youngest designer individually participating, among those selected: € 1000.

The judging panel for BASICS, the 14th Trieste Contemporanea International Design Contest, consists of international experts and representatives from the Central European Initiative and Trieste Contemporanea:
Giuliana Carbi Jesurun, art historian, Trieste Contemporanea representative
Barbara Fabro, CEI Senior Officer, CEI representative
Emanuela Marassi, artist, BEBA Foundation representative
Roberto Paci Dalò, artist and professor of Interaction design at the University of San Marino
Paolo Tassinari, graphic designer, member of the AGI Alliance Graphique Internationale
Janka Vukmir, art curator, Institute for Contemporary Art, Zagreb