The Vitra Design Museum, Shadi Rahbaran & Manuel Herz and the KYOTO Design Lab were a winner of this year’s iF DESIGN AWARD, the world-renowned design prize. The winning design, Food Shaping Kyoto, won in the discipline Interior Architecture, in the Public Exhibitions category. Each year, the world’s oldest independent design organization, Hannover-based iF International Forum Design GmbH, organizes the iF DESIGN AWARD. Food Shaping Kyoto won this award following the Red Dot Award 2020.

Food Shaping Kyoto won over the 98-member jury, made up of independent experts from all over the world. The competition was intense: almost 10,000 entries were submitted from 52 countries in hopes of receiving the seal of quality.

The discipline with the highest quality of entries and the highest percentage of awards was “User Interface” with 58%. In the discipline “Interior architecture” the competition was exceptionally tough, so that only 22% of the entries were awarded.

More information about Food Shaping Kyoto can be found in the “Winners” section of the iF WORLD DESIGN GUIDE.

About the iF DESIGN AWARD
For 67 years, the iF DESIGN AWARD has been recognized as an arbiter of quality for exceptional design. The iF label is renowned worldwide for outstanding design services, and the iF DESIGN AWARD is one of the most important design prizes in the world. Submissions are awarded in the following disciplines: Product, Packaging, Communication and Service Design, Architecture and Interior Architecture as well as Professional Concept, User Experience (UX) and User Interface (UI). All awarded entries are featured on the iF WORLD DESIGN GUIDE and in the iF design app.

About the Food Shaping Kyoto

How has the city of Kyoto been shaped by its culture cultivated over a long period of time and the food ecosystem from production to consumption? In the exhibition “Food Shaping Kyoto” the relationship between the city and food was understood through 6 key words that cross urban structure and food culture–production, water, markets, distribution, urban morphology, and Gion Festival and was depicted by architectural models, food models, tools used in the Nishiki market as well as drawings, photographs, and images that represent the results of research. Tables introducing urban research, a library tower with objects collected through research, a chamber showing 360-degree video of the market crucial to Kyoto’s food culture, and a ceiling installation that inspires Kyoto’s traditional food and market decorations were designed to link the circular space characteristic of the Buckminster Fuller Dome with the food ecosystem. We proposed a new exhibition design that provides visitors with a spatial sense of immersion in Kyoto.

photo by Tomomi Takano

Credits

Food Shaping Kyoto

Exhibition by the Vitra Design Museum, Shadi Rahbaran & Manuel Herz and the KYOTO Design Lab

Client:
Vitra Design Museum

Design:
Rahbaran Hürzeler Architects
Manuel Herz Architects
KYOTO Design Lab, Kyoto Institute of Technology

Project Team:
Manuel Herz Architects:
Manuel Herz, Penny Alevizou
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Rahbaran Hürzeler Architects:
Shadi Rahbaran, Marcel Wagner
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KYOTO Design Lab, Kyoto Institute of Technology:
Yoshiro Ono, Eizo Okada, Takayuki Ikegawa, Takuya Miyake
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Singapore University of Technology and Design:
Erwin Viray
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Kyoto Institute of Technology:
Kazuhiro Ogata, Kento Yokose, Heeye Kim, Tomonobu Miyakawa, Meng Sun, Ryota Manki, Takashi Hiramoto, Riku Kasai, Takuya Tsunashima