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June honorees for 2017 Curry Stone Social Design Circle are announced

2017-06-01T15:04:00-04:00

The Curry Stone Design Prize just announced the latest group of designers to join the Social Design Circle. For June, the theme was “Can Design Reclaim Public Space?”.

Here are a few of the June Social Design Circle honorees:

Asiye eTafuleni

Photo courtesy of Curry Stone Social Design Circle.

Ecosistema Urbano

Ecoboulevard in Madrid, Spain. Photo: Emilio P. Doiztua

Interboro

LentSpace, New York, 2009. Photograph by Michael Falco.

Raumlabor Berlin

Photo courtesy of Curry Stone Social Design Circle.

Studio Basar

Tei Community Center, Bucharest, 2016. Photo credit: studioBASAR, Bucharest, 2016.

Find the rest of the honorees on Bustler, or check out previous announcements below.

Nine honorees join Curry Stone Social Design Circle for May 2017

2017-05-03T12:46:00-04:00

Another month has begun, so that means a new set of honorees for the Curry Stone Social Design Circle have been announced!...For May, nine new members — including Rural Studio, bcWORKSHOP, and Theaster Gates' Rebuild Foundation — were selected for the theme “Can We Design Community Engagement?”.

Here's a glimpse of the May honorees:

buildingcommunityWORKSHOP

Photo courtesy of Curry Stone Social Design Circle.

Fallen Fruit

Photo courtesy of Curry Stone Social Design Circle.

Farm Cultural Park

Photo Credit: Giuseppe Guarneri.

Institute of Play

Photo courtesy of Curry Stone Social Design Circle.

Project Row Houses

Photo: Peter Molick.

Public Works

Photo courtesy of Curry Stone Social Design Circle.

Rebuild Foundation

Photo via currystonedesignprize.com.

Rural Studio

Photo: Timothy Hursley.

Sergio Palleroni

Photo courtesy of Curry Stone Social Design Circle.

Learn more on Bustler, and check out honorees from previous months below.

2017 Curry Stone Design Prize announces Social Design Circle members for April

2017-04-05T20:22:00-04:00

April is already here, and the Curry Stone Design Prize just announced seven new members for the Social Design Circle. Instead of announcing only one winner for the 2017 Curry Stone Design Prize, the Social Design Circle was created to honor a total of 100 individual designers and practices across the globe whose work is dedicated to addressing an array of social issues in their local communities and cities.

Based on the Social Design Circle monthly question “Can Design Prevent Disaster?”, the seven designers who were selected to join the Circle include Denver-based Build Change, the Mississippi State University's Gulf Coast Community Design Studio, and Yasmeen Lari's Heritage Foundation of Pakistan.

See the rest of this month's honorees on Bustler. In case you missed them, you can find March and February's members linked below.

2017 Curry Stone Social Design Circle adds eight more designers for March

2017-03-03T16:02:00-05:00

The Curry Stone Foundation announced eight new members who have joined the Social Design Circle for the month of March. Instead of announcing only one winner for the 2017 Curry Stone Design Prize, the Social Design Circle was created to honor a total of 100 individual designers and practices across the globe whose work is dedicated to addressing an array of social issues in their local communities and cities.

Throughout 2017, new members will be selected in relation to the monthly question addressed by the Social Design Circle. For March, the question was “Can Design Challenge Inequality?”.

The latest members include the Detroit Collaborative Design Center, design practice Project H, Kigali-based Active Social Architecture, and more. You can find February's honorees here.

See the rest of the March honorees on Bustler.