Jury
The Jury Committee is composed of experts in the design field.
The Jury members discuss everyday problem solving.
For the screening, the jury are looking at creative ideas whether the design’s theme is sustainable and solves the problems involved with the city life
2025 Jury
- Ezio Manzini
- Design for social innovation towards sustainability
- Italy
- President, DESIS Network
- Honorary Professor, Politecnico di Milano
- Patricia Moore
- Industrial Design, Universal Design, Gerontologist
- USA
- President of MooreDesign Associates
- WDO's World Design Medalist (2022)
- Andrea Cancellato
- Design, Culture
- Italy
- Director, ADI Design Museum-Milano
- President, Federculture (Italian Association of Museums and Italian Culture Institutions)
- Pradyumna Vyas
- Industrial Design and social design
- India
- President-Elect, World Design Organization (WDO)
- Dawn Lim
- Economic development, business development, strategy, communications
- Singapore
- Executive Director, DesignSingapore Council
- Ahmad Bukhash
- Architecture & Urban Planning
- UAE
- Chief Architect and Founder - ARCHIDENTITY
- Alexandra Klatt
- Design strategy, Cultural management
- Germany
- Founder & Director, Berlin Design Week
- CEO, state of DESIGN GmbH
- Birgit Lohmann
- Design Making
- Germany, Italy
- Founder of designboom
- BongKyu Song
- Industrial Design
- Republic of Korea
- Founder & Design Director, BKID
- Byungkeun Oh
- Information design, Design research
- Republic of Korea
- Professor, Yonsei University
- Former President, Korea Society of Design Science
- Dominique Sciamma
- Global design, Service design, Organizational design, Design Thinking
- France
- Founder, CY school of design
- Former President, APCI (French Design Promotion Society)
- Eberhard Schrempf
- Design, Spatial design, Design management, Strategy
- Austria
- Director, Creative Industries Styria
- Director, Design Month Graz
- Eriko Esaka
- Design studies
- Japan
- Program director, Nagoya UNESCO City of Design Organizing Committee
- Councilor, International Design Center NAGOYA
- Eunjoo Maing
- Design policy & strategy, Design education, Design research, Design marketing & PR
- Republic of Korea
- Executive Director of Design Research Institute, Design House
- EunSook Kwon
- Design strategy, Education, Technology
- Republic of Korea, USA
- Chair & Professor, School of Industrial Design, Georgia Institute of Technology
- Director General, 2008 Seoul Design Olympiad
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- Han ning (Jimmy) Chang
- Industrial Design
- Taiwan
- President, UID CREATE LTD.
- Former President, Chinese Industrial Design Association(Taiwan)
- Hyunsook Seo
- International Relations and Cooperation; Education for Sustainable Development; Global Citizenship Education
- Republic of Korea
- Assistant Secretary-General, Korean National Commission for UNESCO
- Member, Committee of Environmental Education(4th), Ministry of Environment
- Jukka Savolainen
- Design, Architecture, Culture
- Finland
- Museum Director, Alvar Aalto Museum
- Kazuo Tanaka
- Industrial design, Urban design, Design consulting
- Japan
- President CEO, GK Design Group Inc.
- Executive Advisor, Japan Industrial Design Association
- Ken Nah
- Human factors, Design ergonomics, Design management, UX, Design research, Design Thinking
- Republic of Korea
- Professor, IDAS, Hongik University
- Board Member, WDO
- Kun Pyo Lee
- UX, Design strategy, System design
- Republic of Korea, Hong Kong
- Dean & Professor, School of Design, The Hong Kong Polytechnic University
- Laura Figueroa Alcocer
- Industrial design
- Mexico
- President, coldi.mx
- Board Member, WDO
- Mariana Amatullo
- Designing sustainable systems
- Argentina
- Dean, School of Architecture, Art & Design, Tecnológico de Monterrey
- Vice Provost & Professor, Strategic Design and Management, Parsons School of Design
- Martin Zelger
- Design, Architecture, Software
- Swiss
- CEO, DAAily platforms AG (ArchDaily, Architonic, designboom)
- Mimi Yan
- Media & Communicaton, Design criticism, Curation
- China
- Co-founder & Creative Director, MY STUDIO
- Curator, China Creative Pavillion, Paris Design Week 2025
- Former Editorial Director, ELLE DECO China
- Mugendi K. M’Rithaa
- Industrial Design
- Kenya
- Deputy Vice-Chancellor & Professor, Machakos University
- Chairholder, UNESCO Chair on Cloud Computing for Sustainable Development
- Sertaç Ersayin
- Industrial design
- Türkiye
- President, Association of Creative Industries Council in Turkey
- Regional Advisor, WDO
- Sevra Davis
- Architecture, Design, Fashion, Craft, Design for Social Innovation
- UK
- Director of Architecture Design and Fashion, British Council
- Commissioner of the British Pavilion, Venice Architecture Biennale
- SungUn Chang
- Design
- Republic of Korea
- CEO, YOLK
- Tek-Jin Nam
- Industrial design, Interaction design
- Republic of Korea
- Professor, Department of Industrial Design, KAIST
- Vice President, IASDR (International Association of Societies of Design Research)
- Tuba Kocaturk
- Sustainable architectural & Urban design, Design innovation, Circular economy, Smart Cities
- Türkiye, UK, Australia
- Deputy Head, School of Architecture and Built Environment, Deakin University
- Director of Mediated Intelligence in Design (MInD) Research Lab
- Xavi Calvo
- Strategy, Graphic & Industrial design
- Spain
- CEO, Design Foundation of the region of Valencia
- Former CEO, 2023 World Design Capital of Valencia
