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The Rotterdam Design Award (Rotterdamse Designprijs) was an annual and later biennial design award in the Netherlands from 1993 to 2013. In the first five editions the work of the nominees were exhibited in the
Kunsthal The Kunsthal (; ) is an art space in Rotterdam, the Netherlands. It opened in 1992. Overview The museum is situated in the Museumpark of Rotterdam next to the Natuurhistorisch Museum Rotterdam, and in the vicinity of the Museum Boijmans Van Beu ...
, and afterwards in
Museum Boijmans Van Beuningen Municipal Museum Boijmans Van Beuningen () is an art museum in Rotterdam in the Netherlands. The name of the museum is derived from its two most important donors, Frans Jacob Otto Boijmans and Daniël George van Beuningen. The museum is located a ...
. The winners were selected by an international jury during this exhibition, and were announced at the end of the exhibition. The winners received an amount of € 20,000, which could be spent freely.


History

The prize was organized annually from 1993 to 1997, after which it became a biennial prize. No edition took place in 2005.Achtergrondinformatie Designprijs Rotterdam
geraadpleegd 16 maart 2013 In the first years the prize was awarded to individual products of designers, architects and other participants in the field of design. Since 2007 the conceptual vision and performance in the field of the designer became its major criterion. The awarded was inaugurated by the
Rotterdamse Kunststichting The Rotterdamse Kunststichting RKS (''Rotterdam Arts Council'') was an independent foundation to promote art and culture in Rotterdam from 1945 to 2005. In 2005 the foundation merged into the Rotterdam Council for Art and Culture, an advisory body ...
, where Christine de Baan was director of the Rotterdam Design Prize from 1993 tot 2000. In 2007 Thimo te Duits & Gerard Forde managed the award and wrote the catalog. Towards the end in 2011 the Rotterdam design prize was organized by Stichting Designprijs Rotterdam,
Museum Boijmans Van Beuningen Municipal Museum Boijmans Van Beuningen () is an art museum in Rotterdam in the Netherlands. The name of the museum is derived from its two most important donors, Frans Jacob Otto Boijmans and Daniël George van Beuningen. The museum is located a ...
and Premsela, Dutch Institute for Design and Fashion.


Award winners 1993–2013


See also

*
Dutch Design Awards The Dutch Design Awards (DDA) honour the best Dutch designs across eight categories. Design initiatives and designers in the Netherlands are awarded annually, primarily by relevance and impact, but also to the extent to which they relate to thei ...
* Dutch Furniture Awards


Selected publications

* Thimo te Duits & Gerard Forde, ''Designprijs Rotterdam 2007,'' Rotterdam : Stichting Designprijs, 2007.


References

{{Authority control Design awards Dutch awards Dutch design 1993 establishments in the Netherlands Awards established in 1993