WDF 2019 Trophy designed by Mathew Nuqinqaq
Winnipeg Design Festival 2019 | PROTO is pleased to announce the WDF 2019 Awards!
Designers! Showcase your works/website and connect with the public through this program/process!
People's vote is open to everyone!
The WDF 2019 awards program is a platform to recognize and celebrate Winnipeg’s design talents and excellences from all design disciplines. The program will also become a vehicle to connect the public interests with the design community, to platform the designers and their works, and to inspire the public and the next generation designers.
The awards will be delivered in the following areas of design works and designers:
Young and Emerging: significant works by under 30 in age or less than 5 years in practice
Experimental and Madcap: experimental and or non-conventional works
Ex-Winnipeg: significant work by a designer trained/educated in Winnipeg now working outside
People’s Choice: works/practice appreciated by people’s votes
A trophy, designed by Mathew Nuqinqaq from Iqaluit, will be presented to each of the winners at the awards ceremony.
Mathew Nuqingaq is an Iqaluit-based artist who works primarily in jewellry design. Nuqingaq’s talent for working with metal and his desire to represent Inuit culture and traditions through his work result in unique, wearable pieces of art. His designs include Inuit tools, arctic animals and draw on popular figures from Inuit stories. Nuqingaq is a co-founder of the Nunavut Arts and Crafts Association and is currently the President of the Inuit Art Foundation. He was elected as a Member of the Order of Canada on November 18, 2016. Nuqingaq currently owns and works out of Aayuraa Studio in Iqaluit.
Eligibility | Who can enter:
- Winnipeg/Manitoba based (or trained) designers
- Individual or group/firm
- Design professionals
- Designers with two or more design works commissioned by others/clients
- ‘Design work’ is defined inclusively however studio works by self-interest/commission and academic works are excluded
Submission | What/How to submit:
- The WDF AWARDS are project/work-based recognitions
- Submit web-links to the works (website or portfolio) [submit here]
- If the link is to the general website, note or highlights the project(s) nominated for the awards
- Choose all awards categories that apply: Young and Emerging | Experimental and Madcap | Ex-Winnipeg
Process | How does it work:
- Designers SUBMIT links to their works or website/web-portfolio. [submit here]
- Public and peer-designers can NOMINATE designers and or their works [submit here]
- Public and the Jury reviews the works, and votes/selects [review designers]
- NOTE: Technical conditions will be reviewed before public viewing becomes available
Timeline | What happens when:
- Link posts by designers (July 27th – September 7th)
- Public viewing (July 27th – September 30th)
- Public voting (July 27th – September 20th)
- Jury selection (September 15th)
- Awards ceremony (September 27th)
Jury | Who will decide:
Eleanor Bond is a Winnipeg artist known for her large-scale painted images of urban and architectonic space, a practice based on research of collective social experience, spaces of transition, and the impact of technology on the public sphere. She has researched and produced work on individual cities, such as Rotterdam, Salzburg, and Windsor/Detroit, as well as speculative images that merge historical and contemporary conditions. Bond has participated in numerous biennials and international group exhibitions, with solo exhibitions at the Museum of Contemporary Art in Sao Paulo, Witte de With centre for contemporary art in Rotterdam, the Clocktower, PS1, in New York and the Museum of Contemporary Art in Montreal, amongst others. Her research is currently focused on the affective potential of objects.
Trained as a landscape architect, Rodney LaTourelle (CAN) has worked as an artist, architect, and writer for over twenty years. LaTourelle’s practice draws simultaneously from the fields of art and architecture, examining the affective relationship between colour, spatial arrangements, and the viewer’s experience. He has shown in numerous exhibitions internationally and is represented in various private and public collections such as the National Gallery of Canada. Witthöft & LaTourelle is a project-based collaboration between Rodney LaTourelle and Louise Witthöft that focuses on public art, colour concepts, and lighting design in an architectural context. Their exhibition First We Take the Museum is currently on display at The Rooms in St.John’s, Newfoundland until September 22nd.
Herbert Enns works across disciplines on a wide range of research and creative projects. Maintaining an active architecture practice, curating exhibitions, producing publications, and lecturing widely, he explores new territories of design innovation in architecture, urban design, product design, interdisciplinary creative practice, and digital technology.
Enns was a member of the Architect Selection Committee for the Winnipeg Art Gallery (WAG) Inuit Art Centre and serves on the WAG Board of Governors. His practice is active, including Architecture, Urban Design, Product Design, Media, Publication and Exhibition Design and Curation.
Karen Shanski founded BLDG architecture office in 2008, specializing in large-scale multi-family and mixed-use developments.
Under her leadership as Director and Principal Architect, BLDG’s team of architects and designers has brought to market over 1500 apartment units across Winnipeg, with another 500 set to launch in 2020. Recent Winnipeg projects under her design leadership have been the Tuxedo Point Multi-Family Residential Development, Park City Mixed-Use Development, 30UC, and THE RINK Hockey Training Complex.
Born and raised in Winnipeg, Shanski graduated from the University of Manitoba in 1999 with a Masters of Architecture. After graduation she collaborated with renowned Dutch architect Rem Koolhaas at the Office for Metropolitan Architecture in Rotterdam. She later served as co-lead designer of SC3, the Smith Carter Architects and Engineers headquarters in Winnipeg, which was recognized by the Canadian Government with a Governor General’s Medal in Architecture and certified LEED® Platinum. Shanski has also been an instructor at the Faculty of Architecture, University of Manitoba, where she taught Design Studio, Building Technology and Professional Practice from 2008-2015.
As member of the Manitoba, Saskatchewan and Ontario Associations of Architects Shanski is active in the advocacy for design excellence in architecture, urbanism, and education.