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Hans Sauer Award 2018 / Hans Sauer Preis 2018

27. September 2017 By


Hans Sauer Award 2018 

Labs are regarded as a promising way to address challenges and questions of the future which cannot (or can no longer) be solved within conventional structures and organisations.  Labs employ a plethora of tools and methods to stimulate creativity, enable dialogue, cooperation and participation. Labs dissolve disciplinary and sectoral boundaries – at least temporarily – and replace them by participatory, interdisciplinary and experimental forms of working and creating.

Over the past years a number of players have discovered labs for the development of new solutions: companies, universities, state institutions, and, increasingly, social and non-profit initiatives and organisations.

The Hans Sauer Award 2018 addresses the best and most innovative Social Labs in Europe. All labs (or institutions working with lab methods), who are already working, or are in the process of implementation are eligible for competition. Registration opens on October 1st, 2017 and ends December 15th, 2017

In early March 2018, the five successful finalists will be invited to the Social Design Elevation Days 2018 in Munich. The Hans Sauer Foundation seeks to highlight and explore the trend of Social Labs, support the creation of a European network of Social Labs, and further international exchange on the subject. At the end of the three-day-event, a Jury will select one (or several) winning lab(s) and distribute the award money of € 10.000.

[icon name=“file-pdf-o“ class=““ unprefixed_class=““] Further information and terms of participation

Hans Sauer Preis 2018 

Labs gelten als vielversprechender Lösungsansatz für Herausforderungen und Zukunftsfragen, die in herkömmlichen Strukturen und Organisationen nicht (oder nicht mehr) gelöst werden können. Labs bringen eine Fülle von Methoden und Werkzeugen zur Anwendung, um Kreativität anzuregen, Dialoge zu ermöglichen und Kollaboration und Partizipation zu verwirklichen. Disziplinäre und sektorale Grenzen werden in Labs – zumindest zeitweise – aufgelöst und stattdessen auf partizipative, bereichsübergreifende und experimentelle Formen des Arbeitens und Gestaltens gesetzt.

Zahlreiche Akteure haben in den vergangenen Jahren Labs zur Entwicklung neuer Lösungen für sich entdeckt: Unternehmen, Hochschulen, staatliche Institutionen und mehr und mehr auch soziale und gemeinnützige Initiativen und Organisationen. So sind „Social Labs“ entstanden und leisten in vielen Themenbereichen und an vielen Orten wertvolle Arbeit.

Der Hans Sauer Award 2018 „Designing Futures. Social Labs in Europe“ richtet sich an solche „Social Labs“ in ganz Europa. Teilnahmeberechtigt sind alle Labs (oder andere, in der Art eines Labs arbeitende Institutionen), die gemeinwohlorientierte Aufgaben bearbeiten und sich nicht mehr in der Konzeptphase, sondern schon in der Umsetzung oder im laufenden Betrieb befinden. Bis 15. Dezember 2017 ist eine Einreichung möglich.

Unter den Teilnehmern wählen Experten fünf Labs aus, die im März 2018 zu den „Social Design Elevation Days“ nach München eingeladen werden. Die Hans Sauer Stiftung möchte so eine vergleichende Betrachtung verschiedener Herangehensweisen ermöglichen, den Aufbau eines europäischen Netzwerks unterstützen und den grenzübergreifenden Austausch fördern. Am Ende der dreitägigen Veranstaltung wählt eine Jury ein (oder mehrere) Gewinnerlab(s) aus und verteilt das Preisgeld von 10.000 Euro.

[icon name=“file-pdf-o“ class=““ unprefixed_class=““] Ausschreibung Hans Sauer Award 2018

Preisträger*innen

  • First Price
    First Price: Wir Oberndorfer 

    Wir Oberndorfer 

    Oberndorf is a small village in the northern part of Germany. The project, founded by inhabitants of Oberndorf, was able to activate the village’s community, tackle many every day challenges, and find creative solutions to make life in the rural area attractive and liveable again. Wir Oberndorfer might not be a social lab in the full sense, but both jury and the public saw many lab-like approaches fulfilled in this very likeable grassroots project.

  • Second Price
    Second Price: Accademia di Comunità

    Accademia di Comunità

    Accademia di Comunità
     is a network of Italian cultural associations, informal groups, and active citizens who came together to initiate a lab-like structure with which they support socially-concerned change makers in the alpine Vallagarina district. Its home is an old building at the trainstation of Rovereto. The projects is quite new and in its early days, but has – so the jury stated – manifold potentials to become a social lab for integration issues.

  • Special price
    Special Price: My Futures

    My Futures 

    My Futures is a project lab located at the TU Delft that combines design research, design education and case study work. Its aim is to design tools to support thinking about personal futures, for use by individuals and organisations in thinking about, discussing, planning, and acting towards organizing future personal situations. The jury decided to give a special price to this project as it combines innovative methods with lab-like working styles in an area that is crucial to the ageing societies not only in Europe.

Details

Time Frame

Registration begins on October 1, 2017 and ends December 15, 2017. On January 15, 2018 the finalists will be announced and will receive and an invitation to the Social Design Elevation Days 2018 in Munich, Germany.

The final, the Social Design Elevation Days 2018, will take place from March 8, 2018 to March 11, 2018.

Terms of Participation

Eligible for competition are:

Labs, Social Labs, Social Innovation Labs (or similar institutions or initiatives of a different name) which fulfil the following criteria:

  1. Mission and cause emerge from a social issue/challenge (not from a commercial one.)
  2. The work includes participants and/or collaborators from various disciplines, industries, sectors and areas of society – all the way from initial idea to implementation.
  3. The work contains participatory and collaborative elements in all phases, from initial idea all the way to implementation.
  4. The work is experimental; prototypes, iteration and action are essential features.
  5. The project aims for systemic change and social change; not the solving of symptoms.
  6. The lab must already be working, or be in the process of implementation and beyond the conceptual stage. Labs can be temporary or permanent in their nature.
  7. The Lab is in Europe.

Applicants should supply the following documents and send them to award2018@hanssauerstiftung.com:

  1. A description of the Social Lab in English. The description should be 1,000 – 2,000 words and contain all visual materials necessary for understanding the lab (images, graphics, illustrations, (links to) videos). The document should also answer the following questions:
  • Mission (What is the aim?)
  • Topic (What is/are the problem/s the lab is working on?)
  • Time/Place (When was it founded? What is the timeframe? Is it a temporary or a permanent lab? Where is it located? What space or spaces does it utilise? Is it temporary or permanent?)
  • Financing/Support Structure (In what ways is the lab supported financially, materially and immaterially?)
  • Initiators (Who founded the lab?)
  • Stakeholders/participants (Who is involved in the lab work? What sectors, what disciplines, what stakeholders, what sorts of expertise are combined?)
  • Methods/Tools (What are the methods the lab is working with? What is the innovation toolbox? What role do experimentation, prototyping, and iteration play?)
  • Processes/qualities (what degree is the process participatory and to what degree specialised? How are participants / stakeholders involved in the process? How do you take advantage of the interdisciplinary nature of the project?)
  1. A description of at least one but no more than three of the Social Lab’s cases/projects. Those should be 800 to 1,000 words and contain all visual materials necessary for understanding the project (images, graphics, illustrations, (links to) videos), as well as contain information on the following topics:
  • Clients/ Users/ Participants (non-professional Co-Designers)
  • Sector(s) addressed
  • Core Team
  • Key Stakeholders
  • Start/Status
  • Costs
  • Methods used
  • Impact

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