23. Biennale of Design - Call for Entries prolonged until April 8, 2012

Join applicants from already 34 countries competing for this year’s BIO 23 exhibition and design awards! The winner of the BIO Gold Medal will receive a monetary prize in the amount of €5,000.

Designers, commissioners, producers, students and design organisations, from anywhere in the world, have still time to submit products, concepts and projects, from any area of design, which have been created in the past two years, to 23rd Biennial of Design.

The curators of BIO 23 - Margo Konings and Margriet Vollenberg of Organisation in Design - have chosen the theme for BIO 23 “Design Relations” and will select the works to be exhibited from the submissions received in response to the Call for Entries.

The BIO 23 exhibition will be held from 27 September to 11 November 2012 at the Museum of Architecture and Design in Ljubljana, Slovenia. The exhibition will highlight fresh ideas and explore how design relates to the social, the sustainable, and the cultural, while displaying crossovers between culture and commerce, crafts and industry.

A jury comprising design experts Giulio Cappellini, Sven Jonke, Sophie Lovell, Jimmy MacDonald and Vasa J. Perović, will present awards to the best of the exhibited design works. The winner of the BIO Gold Medal will receive a monetary prize in the amount of €5,000.

Dates Call for entries extended: 8 April 2012 BIO 23 selection announced: end of May 2012 Delivery of the works: 3–7 September 2012 International Jury final judging: 24–25 September 2012 BIO 23 Design Award ceremony and opening: 27 September 2012 Exhibition will be opened until 11 November 2012

Info: Museum of Architecture and Design