The submitted products and solutions are assessed by an impartial jury consisting of leading figures from design, management and research, with relevant expertise in the categories and assessment of the award.
The jury 2024 is appointed by the Danish Design Center and Design denmark in collaboration and consists of members from Denmark and abroad.
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Kaave Pour
Head of Jury. CEO & Creative Director
Kaave Pour is a creative entrepreneur from Copenhagen with Danish and Iranian roots. As the former co-founder, CEO, and Creative Director of SPACE10, he guided the renowned R&D lab to global recognition across four continents before its closure after a decade of innovative work. Kaave’s expertise spans design, culture, and technology, with notable collaborations including giants like IKEA, Apple, MIT, and the UN. A frequent speaker and guest lecturer, he shares his forward-thinking insights, encouraging a curious and playful mindset among emerging designers, brands, and organizations. Currently, Kaave has embarked on a series of new ventures, a Copenhagen-based restaurant, a…
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Sofie Holstein-Homann
Global Managing Partner, Manyone
Sofie Holstein-Homann has worked as a strategic design consultant for more than 17 years. She is Global Managing Partner at the strategy-design consultancy Manyone and was among the group of founders. Previously, Sofie worked at Designit in several leading positions. Sofie works with large global companies on complex challenges and is a trusted strategic advisor to her clients. With a strong focus on insights and strategy, she helps businesses transform and better understand their future context and the ever-changing expectations of their customers. Sofie holds a joint master in Industrial Design Engineering from the Royal College of Art and Imperial…
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Banny Banerjee
Founder, Global ChangeLabs
An architect, product designer, and engineer by training, Banny has been working for the past two decades in advancing design approaches and developing innovation methodology for systems challenges marked by scale, complexity, uncertainty, and deeply entrenched systemic risks, along with helping leaders shape integrated system strategies. He works with the private sector, public sector, as well as international institutions such as the UN, The World Economic Forum, and The Nature Conservancy to bring systems approaches to scaled sustainability challenges. After working as a designer at IDEO, Banny served as Professor of Mechanical Engineering and Director of the Stanford Design Program.…
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MATYLDA KRZYKOWSKI
Designer, Scenographer, Curator, Artist, Host
Matylda Krzykowski directs, designs, writes, and talks about objects within space and ideas outside of space. Her transdisciplinary, geographically mobile practice resonates worldwide through exhibitions, installations, talks, texts, performances, and exhibits. As artistic lead of CIVIC at Basel Academy of Art & Design, Matylda Krzykowski provides an educational and experimental environment with opportunities for participation, contribution, and exchange to promote an understanding of the relevance of art and design to society.
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Akanksha Deo Sharma
DESIGNER, ARTIST, PUBLIC SPEAKER
Akanksha Deo Sharma, an Indian multidisciplinary designer and artist, works as an in-house designer at IKEA. Recognized in Forbes India’s 30 Under 30 for her work in integrating craft into the global design landscape. With a foundation in fashion design, Sharma actively collaborates with craft communities, highlighting the essential role of community and craft in societal progress and its intrinsic link to materials and the land. Her work incorporates new and waste materials, exploring our relationship with these resources as society evolves. Notably, in her Forandring project, she transformed rice straw, a harvest residue from India, into a renewable material…
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Kara Pecknold
VP Regenerative Design, frog
Kara is VP of Regenerative Design at frog, the reinvention and experience partner part of Capgemini Invent. Over the past 20 years, she has helped her clients to shape new products, services and businesses. As global lead for sustainability, she is focusing her attention on ensuring teams and organisations can deliver outcomes that ensure a liveable future for people and planet in the Eco-Digital Era™. Kara has a keen interest in the dynamic insights that can be found at the intersection of people, products and systems. Her work with both Fortune 500 companies and impact organizations has enabled to understand…
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Carsten Henriksen
Creative Director, Carsten Henriksen Studio
Carsten Nguyen Henriksen is a Creative Director and Brand Consultant with over 15 years of design leadership experience across digital product design, corporate identity, wayfinding, packaging, and industrial design. Carsten runs his own studio specializing in brand transformation that fuses business purpose, corporate culture, and product design, working with clients such as Danske Bank, KEA, AP Pension, and Digital Hub Denmark. Previously, Carsten served as CEO and Creative Director at Designit, leading transformative projects and building design solutions for TV 2, Nykredit, SAS, Novo Nordisk, Royal Unibrew, and others. He holds a M.Sc. in Industrial Design and has received multiple…
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Tiina Karjalainen Kierysch
Head of Design, Bang & Olufsen
Tiina Karjalainen Kierysch is a Swedish-Finnish industrial designer and Head of Design at Bang & Olufsen, based in Copenhagen, Denmark. She has a track record of award-winning product creation in global design positions, including collaborations across transportation design. Tiina has a broad experience of setting creative direction, leading design teams and processes from early concept stage to final product execution and launch. Her passion for design, music and sustainability topics play a big role both in herpersonal and professional life.
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Torsten Valeur
Head of Valeur Designers
Over the last three decades, Master Designer and CEO Torsten Valeur has successfully shaped the look and feel of numerous brand-defining products. Fascinated by technology but a true sculptor at heart, Torsten Valeur is on a constant quest for originality. Regardless if he works with start-ups or global companies, he always aspires to find solutions that are surprising yet intuitive while staying within the technical boundaries that each project inevitably brings. Over the years, Torsten Valeur has been a prominent profile in the Danish and international design community. He is a popular speaker on various design issues just as he…
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Signe Kongebro
Global Design Director, Urbanism, Partner, Henning Larsen
Signe Kongebro is Global Design Director, Urbanism at Henning Larsen. In 2007, Signe founded Henning Larsen’s sustainability department, and to this day, she is one of the driving forces behind the studio’s focus on sustainable construction in the industry. With her extensive knowledge, Signe is pioneering new ways to reduce carbon on an urban scale. Signe leads the design of a wide range of ambitious Henning Larsen projects. These include Fælledby, an all-timber neighborhood in Copenhagen designed to reduce the carbon impact of the development and increase biodiversity in a balance of city and nature. At the forefront of efforts…
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Ask Agger
CEO, Workz
Ask Agger originally studied political science but was led astray into the alluring world of movie making, game design and consulting before he managed to start a proper career as a government bureaucrat. Today Ask is heading the change agency Workz, where he and his colleagues serve companies with the human aspect of organizational change and the design of game-based tools for learning and engagement. To his own disappoint, Ask never got any good as a classic designer, but he has tried to compensate by tampering with design thinking and what can best be described as change design or narrative…
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Ida Engholm
Professor, Royal Danish Academy
Ida Engholm is a professor of design history and design theory at the Royal Danish Academy. She is the author of several books and articles on design and design-related topics. Her latest book is the influential debate book, Design for the New World: From Human Design to Planet Design. Ida Engholm is co-founder of the research journal Artifact: Journal of Design Practice and a member of the Danish Design Council.
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Christian Mogensen
Executive Director & Partner, Stupid Studio
Christian Mogensen is co-owner of Stupid Studio, a Danish B Corp-certified creative studio. Since its inception in 2006, Stupid Studio has focused on designing better futures and creating positive change for people and the planet. Christian’s journey is marked by a strong foundation in computer science from the University of Southern Denmark and over 15 years of experience in creative leadership, innovation, and entrepreneurship. He is a passionate speaker and an advocate for the importance of play in life. Over the years, Christian has received numerous awards and recognitions for his work with Stupid Studio. In addition to Stupid Studio,…