The 2024 Core77 Design Awards Speculative Design Winners

This year's Speculative Design jury was led by Monika Bielskyte, Futures Researcher/Futurist Designer at PROTOPIA

By Core77 Design Awards - June 18

in Core77 Design Awards | Speculative Design

The winning Professional entry is DataWagashi, a climate data edible confection, by VLab, and the winning Student entry is De.fault, a de-personalized recommendation engine, by Yoonbee Baek at School of Visual Arts.

The jury team for the 2024 Core77 Design Awards Speculative Design category was led by Monika Bielskyte, Futures Researcher/Futurist Designer at PROTOPIA. Joining Bielskyte on the jury were Angela Bains, Acting Associate Dean at OCAD University, Gem Barton, Ms Experimental Realism at Office for Speculative Spatial Design, Kevin Bethune, Founder and Chief Creative Officer at dreams • design + life, Bodhisattva Chattopadhyay, PI and Lead CoFutures at University of Oslo, Malina Dabrowska, Foresight Design lead at Arup, Pumla Maswanganyi, Founding Director at by lue, Nkhensani Mkhari, Director at See Fair Technologies, Pierce Otlhogile-Gordon, Ph.D, Equity Innovation Studio Director at Think Rubix and Phoenix Perry, Design Researcher at University of the Arts, London.

The 2024 Core77 Design Awards Speculative Design category honors projects, whether physically or digitally produced, designed for the purpose of cultural commentary, intervention, or exploration, or created as speculative design for a client or educational institution. Examples include: future scenarios, social critique