第18回 審査員講評 2005/18th  Discussion Forum
 










● 審査委員長
★栄久庵 憲司
(インダストリアル・デザイナー)
光のデザインで地球の人々をつなげることこそ、まさにグローバルな考え方の実践であって、それは一部の貴族主義的な権利ではないという点は今回の審査結果に強く示されていたと思います。
コンペ18年の歴史の中で、審査員として立ち上げるテーマについて話す機会が生じたことは特筆すべきだと思います。テーマがあるからこそ、デザインのガイドラインとなり1つの救いとなるわけです。


● 審査委員
★菊竹 清訓
(建築家)
「地球時代のあかり」はよいテーマだったと思います。環境問題に学生がアプローチするいい機会となりました。しかし一番感じているのは、少なくともこれまでのコンセプトで考えるならどの作品も未完成であるということです。未完成であることが審査を非常に難しくさせました。ですから「こういう点を付け加えるならいい」と条件付きで審査をしました。付け加えるべき内容のレベルはかなり高いものです。そして単に形が美しいだけでは金賞は得られません。

★葉 祥栄
(建築家・デザイナー)
世界に共有する問題に学生が光を通して提案することは貴重な機会です。「地球時代のあかり」というテーマには、社会性の面から、精神的、肉体的な癒しまで幅の広がりがありました。グローバルであることと、心理的なもの、両極端な両方を我々は求めることになり、それに対する答えもまた幅が広かったと思います。今回の入選作はその幅の中に点在しているように感じます。残念なのは、リサイクルが1つのテーマとしてあったにも関わらずあまりいい答えが得られなかったことです。

★パトリック・ホイットニー
(デザイナー)
今回驚いたのは、出品された作品の多くがテーマに沿っていなかったことです。今回の作品の中には、去年のこのコンペに出してもいいようなものもあったと思います。来年は、募集要項にはテーマに注目するようにと一言そえるべきでしょう。このコンペは学生にとってよい機会になっていると思います。

★アンジェロ・コルテージ
(インダストリアルデザイナー)
今回の審査をふりかえると、ユーモアのある、遊び心のあるデザインが多かったと思います。技術性を感じるものや社会的機能をはたすものがあり、折り紙を思わせる照明のデザインには、東洋的なアイデアも表現されていたと思います。未完ではあったものの、バリエーションの点から大変面白い18回の作品群でした。

 
Head Juror
Kenji Ekuan
(Industrial Designer)
Connecting the people of the world through lighting design requires a way of thinking that is truly global. I think that this year's judging results highlights the point that this perspective is not just the notion of a privileged part of thepopulation.
Looking back on the 18 years of the competition, I think it is worth remarking on how opportunities have arisen for the jurors to discuss the themes.
By giving the competition a theme, students can follow single guiding design guideline. Themes are put forward to enable the student to transform a design that deals with light into a good design through the process of participating in the competition. The theme itself is a product of the design movement. I felt that this year's competition has once again allowed the competition to evolve.

Jury Panel
Kiyonori Kikutake
( Architect)
I think Lighting of the Global Age” was a good theme. It provided students with an opportunity to tackle global environmental issues. However my overall impression of this year's competition was that compared with other concepts we have had up until now, the designs were unperfected. Having to judge unperfected works was very difficult. When I was judging, I added conditions such as if this were added to the design, it would be good." The level of content to be added is quite high. It is also important to note that beautiful form alone is not enough to Gold Award.

Kiyonori Kikutake
( Architect)
I'd like to see the Japanese sensibilities brought out more in lighting design, as opposed to the current vogue that is stateless and lacking in cultural distinction. We feel that full-scale development of lighting fixture design is a problem that must be deal with in future. Because the functional or decorative role of lighting dose not produce what we know as "art".

Shoei Yoh
(Architect)
It is a precious opportunity for a student to be able to propose ideas through lighting in relation to problems shared throughout the world. We have witnessed a wide range of ways in which students have addressed the theme of Lighting of the Global Age ranging from a societal level through to spiritual and physical healing. The theme implies something global, yet something psychological and we were looking for both of these extremes. I think the submissions consequently had a wide range of approaches to this theme. I think that this year's award recipients are representative of this broad spectrum. It was disappointing, though, that although recycling was one of the themes, we were unable to find any works that adequately addressed it.

Patrick Whitney
(Designer)
I was actually surprised how many of this year's entries did not stick to the theme. For some of this year's work, I felt they could have been submitted in last year's competition. I say we place a stronger comment in the application guidelines for next year's competition that students must focus on the theme.
I believe this competition is a valuable opportunity for students, especially for students who receive a top-level award.

Angelo Cortesi
(Industrial Designer)
On reflection of this year's judging process, I think there were many designs that were humorous with a playful sentiment. There were works with a technological slant, and there were works that delivered a social function. I think the lighting designs the evoked thoughts of origami paper were expressing Eastern ideas. The most interesting characteristic of the works of the 18th competition was the variation between them,
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