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The Design Intelligence Award (DIA) is an international competition connecting cultures through design. It gathers a global community of entrepreneurs, creatives and innovators who tackle and solve society's biggest challenges.

While the DIA is one of the newer design awards, it was founded in 2015 by the China Academy of Art in partnership with The People's Government of Zhejiang Province, the China Industrial Design Association, the Steering Sub-committee on the Teaching of Industrial Design in Higher Educational Institutions under the Ministry of Education and organized by the Design Intelligence Award Committee, it offers at least two big benefits--it's free to enter and there are cash prizes if you win.

The DIA recognizes innovative, forward-thinking, and sustainable design solutions that address real-world problems and improve people's lives. DIA experts are a diverse group from around the world who are recognized for their expertise in design. The expert panel consists of 550 experts and judges from 37 countries and regions, including designers, heads of design organizations, curators, editors-in-chief of design magazines, design museum experts, college design professors, and enterprise executives.

The 2023 Gold Winner was BrainRobotics Mini Hand

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Designed by Zhejiang Qiangnao Technology Co., Ltd. and the team: Zhaoyi Yang, Haoxuan Wang, Zhiqiang Ji, Weicheng Deng, and Bicheng Han.

The intelligent bionic hand represents a quantum leap forward from the era of rudimentary metal hooks and static prosthetic limbs. It shatters previous constraints that required physical buttons or joysticks to perform pre-programmed gestures. This advanced prosthetic hand weaves AI technology and bespoke programming capabilities into its core, offering a more seamless and intuitive user experience. By harnessing muscle signals through electromyography sensors in the residual limb, it translates these biological cues into precise movements, enabling amputees to perform gestures and actions that feel natural and intuitive.

The 2023 Future Talents winner was Sunseeker

Designed by Studio VANTOT and the team: Sam van Gurp, Thomas Verboven, Eline Smits, Zowa Rindt, and Gerrit Beking.

Sunseeker is a mobile and modular solar-light chain developed by Studio VANTOT. Its human-centered design promotes playfulness and participation in urban landscapes and encourages local curiosity towards sustainable energy resources. The smart solar harvesting modules of Sunseeker are equipped with light sensors that inform each individual light fixture to spin on its axis or move along the light chain to find the sunniest spots. This allows the fixture to escape the shadows of the urban landscape and optimizes solar harvesting. Much like sunflowers spinning to catch the sun rays, or people chasing glimpses of the moving sun between high-rises, the choreography of the lights adds an exciting and sentimental element to our usually detached city settings. Once the sun sets, SUNSEEKER becomes an illuminating pathway, as it uses captured solar energy to light up the night.

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