12. RecyclingDesignpreis

12. Recycling Design Prize

Submit innovative upcycling designs and new developments in material research, circular economy, social design, or transformation design made from waste and residual materials.

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Deadline: 1 day left
Entry fee: Free
Award: 1st Prize: 2,500 EUR; 2nd Prize: 1,500 EUR; 3rd Prize: 1,000 EUR
Location: Marta Herford, Herford, Germany; later exhibitions at Neues Museum Nürnberg and Zitadelle Spandau, Berlin
Exhibition window: Mar 13, 2027 → Jun 20, 2027

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About

Overview

The 12th Recycling Design Prize is an international, open design competition for innovative upcycling ideas and new developments in material research, circular economy, social design, and transformation design. Created from waste and residual materials, entries should be sustainable, visionary, imaginative, and original.

Eligibility

Open to creatives with professional or semi-professional design training. International participation welcome.

Submission deadline

31 August 2026

Prizes

1st Prize: 2,500 EUR
2nd Prize: 1,500 EUR
3rd Prize: 1,000 EUR
No entry fee

Exhibition and tour

A selection of the most interesting submissions, along with the winning projects, will be presented in the exhibition Ausgezeichnete Ideen at Marta Herford (13 March – 20 June 2027). The opening is 12 March 2027. The work will then be shown at Neues Museum Nürnberg and Zitadelle Spandau, Berlin.

Conditions

Availability of the works for exhibitions until January 2028 is required.

More information

All application information at www.recyclingdesignpreis.org

Media accepted

installationmixed media

Award: 1st Prize: 2,500 EUR; 2nd Prize: 1,500 EUR; 3rd Prize: 1,000 EUR
Entry fee: Free to enter
Theme: The competition seeks innovative upcycling ideas and new developments in material research, circular economy, social design, and transformation design—sustainable, visionary, imaginative, and original work created from waste and residual materials.
Eligibility: Open to creatives with professional or semi-professional design training; international participation welcome.
Audience: International, open to professionals and semi-professionals with design training

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