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New Award for the Design World

9 January 201412 March 2019Ekaterina Vekova

BE OPEN is launching a Young Talent Award to scout out emerging designers and give them support whilst they develop their work. This is part of the foundation’s Inside the Academy strand, their innovative approach to supporting creative education, accompanying students from study through to professional practice.

Founder of BE OPEN, Elena Baturina, says: “Most design prizes are created to celebrate a career. BE OPEN’s Young Talent Award is about championing tomorrow’s creative leaders, seeking out and incubating new talent. Our aim is to showcase brilliant young designers and integrate them into the working world, bringing their thinking to life. We want this award to become a reference point in the career of every ambitious young designer and to enliven the debate around the quality and potential of contemporary design“.

Made in … India

8 January 201412 March 2019Ekaterina Vekova

11 – 28 February 2014, New Delhi

10 February official opening, by invitation only

BE OPEN, the global philanthropic foundation, announced its intention last month to launch a worldwide project that looks at the handmade and how to ensure its survival in the future.

BE OPEN to Create a Design Institute Ranking That Stretches to the Four Corners of the World

14 October 201312 March 2019Ekaterina Vekova

BE OPEN, the global philanthropic foundation, is launching a new initiative as part of its education strand, Inside the Academy.

Having researched and released a ranking of secondary education across Europe (September 2013), the foundation is now undertaking a global survey to compare offerings at design institutes worldwide, as part of its ongoing commitment to creative education.

“The report will become an essential tool for design students”, says Roberto Zancan, Professor of History and Theory of Environmental Design and curator of Inside the Academy. “In recent years, we have seen a proliferation of experimental and new approaches to teaching design, architecture and art, both inside and outside of traditional academic institutions. Our ranking will help students discover these ‘alternative’ courses and choose the learning environment that works best for them.”

BE OPEN Announces a New Project for 2014/15: Finding a Place for Traditional Skills in the Future

10 October 201312 March 2019Ekaterina Vekova

BE OPEN, the global philanthropic foundation, today announced their plans for a worldwide project that looks at the handmade and how to ensure its survival in the future.

The foundation’s mission to seek out and platform creative talent is underpinned by robust business thinking: craft and craftsmanship need a re-brand, a holistic marketing concept that will give them global appeal.

BE OPEN Reveals Details of Its New Education Initiative to Accompany Young Creatives Through Studies to Career

7 June 201312 March 2019Ekaterina Vekova

BE OPEN, the social and cultural initiative committed to creativity and innovation, has unveiled its long-term programme to support young creatives and institutes. An extension of the Foundation’s Inside the Academy programme, which has created a series of independent projects linked to education and awards, this new extended scheme involves a ranking system, Master’s Program Prize and a Young Talent Award.

Academic and journalist Roberto Zancan, who is curating the programme, spoke about the scheme at an international press briefing on 6 June, held at Chelsea College of Art in London. He was joined by Jay Osgerby of Barber Osgerby and Shay Alkalay of Raw Edges who will be part of the judging panel for the Young Talent Award. Both spoke with enthusiasm about BE OPEN’s decision to support creative education in such a fundamental way and particularly about the opportunity that the funding supplied by the Young Talent Award would give designers to focus on their work for a full year, a crucial opportunity to develop one’s thinking and test creative ideas.

About the BE OPEN Sound Portal

7 June 201318 March 2019Ekaterina Vekova

The Sound Portal was a landmark project for the 2012 London Design Festival. Created as an immersive space that focused on the idea of ‘design you can’t see’, it was sited in Trafalgar Square 19-23 September 2012.

New Blog. New Soundspace

28 May 201312 March 2019Ekaterina Vekova

Over the last six months students from Chelsea College of Art and Design, London College of Communication and Central Saint Martins College of Arts and Design have been exploring the possibilities of sound from three very different perspectives, as part of a unique collaboration between BE OPEN and the University of the Arts, London.

BE OPEN Launches the Sounding Space Symposium

21 May 201318 March 2019Ekaterina Vekova

BE OPEN, the social and cultural initiative committed to creativity and innovation, is continuing its research into the senses by collaborating with UAL on the Sounding Space Symposium in London from 6-7 June.

Sounding Space marks the conclusion of the BE OPEN Sound Portal’s residency at Chelsea College of Art and Design. This state-of-the-art experimental sound space, devised by BE OPEN, Arup and the London Design Festival, was moved to Chelsea after its inaugural week as one of the London Design Festival 2012 landmark events, in the middle of Trafalgar Square.

London Students Step Into the Future Through the BE OPEN Sound Portal

22 April 201312 March 2019Ekaterina Vekova

2012 saw the arrival of BE OPEN Sound Portal, launched September. The matt black cylindrical listening booth stood for a week in one of London’s most noisy locations and transported visitors in Trafalgar Square to a number of imaginary places with soundscapes designed by the likes of Squarepusher, Jana Winderen and Ivan Pavlov. His contribution, for example, sounded like folk music for aliens. Never mind Italian futurism; this was pure futurology.

What Is Happening to Our Senses and Tastes? BE OPEN Looks Into the Future at Milan Design Week 2013

11 April 201312 March 2019Ekaterina Vekova

BE OPEN’S second day at the Fuorisalone offered visitors the opportunity to taste the future, with the BE OPEN Talk, a panel discussion moderated by Philippe Daverio on the sensory future and the BE OPEN Food Theatre at the Moroso showroom, a unique food experience.

These events are a part of an extensive programme to research design for the five senses through innovative projects that reach out to the sixth sense, or intuition. The Foundation is committed to developing this concept, finding ways of connecting with people’s intuitive responses through inventive combinations of the sensory and the technological, to create the ultimate in multi-sensory experiences.