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Winners of the 2020 NOMA, NAACP, and SEED Awards highlight design justice and equity within architecture and land development

2020-10-06T13:47:00-04:00

Since 2011, the SEED Awards highlight public interest design projects that address critical community issues at a social, economic, and environmental scale. This year's award winners represent projects that reflect justice, equity, diversity, and inclusion within the realms of design, architecture, and land development in collaboration with NOMA and NAACP.

Winners were selected thanks to a star-studded jury consisting of design leaders in the industry such as Carl Anthony, Kimberly Dowdell, Maya Henderson, and Tiffany Mayhew, among others. This year, seven winning projects were chosen.

View the winners below and selected project images.

2020 Project Winners

Memorial to Enslaved Laborers - Design Team: Design Team: Höweler + Yoon Architecture, Meejin Yoon, Eric Höweler, Namjoo Kim, Caroline Shannon, Anna Kaertner, Alex Yueyan Li, Caleb Hawkins, Boris Angelov, Julia Robert, Dr. Mabel O. Wilson, Studio &, Marlisa Wise, Dr. Frank Dukes, Gregg Bleam Landscape Architect, Eto Otitigbe, a...

SEED Award winners for Excellence in Public Interest Design

2014-01-31T18:58:00-05:00

The winners were recently announced in the fourth annual SEED Awards for Excellence in Public Interest Design. The SEED Awards acknowledges design projects that highlight pressing social, environmental, and economic issues in the world. Winning projects received a US$1,000 honorarium and an all-expenses-paid trip for one team representative to present at the Structures for Inclusion conference in New York City on March 22-23, 2014.

The jury selected six winning projects:

Pictured above: Towns Association for Environmental Quality Green Building Headquarters, Sakhnin, Israel

Comunidad Ecologica Saludable, Puenta Piedra, Lima, Peru

Can City, Sao Paulo, Brazil

Manica Football for Hope Centre, Bairro Vumba (Vumba neighborhood), Manica, Mozambique

Community How-To-Guides, Detroit, MI, USA

The Potty Project, New Delhi, India

Three honorable mentions were also awarded to: Dimen Kam Minority Cultural Heritage in China, Dimen, China; Walk [Your City], Raleigh, NC; and People Organizing Place, Dallas, Texas.

Find out more on Bustler.

Six Projects to Receive 2013 SEED Award for Excellence in Public Interest Design

2012-11-14T15:27:00-05:00

Winners of the 2013 international SEED Award for Excellence in Public Interest Design were announced yesterday. SEED Awards recognize excellence in social, economic, and environmental design, and represent the collaborations needed to create truly sustainable projects and change in the world. Six projects were selected out of sixty-five submitted from 21 countries worldwide.