The jury for the Forum AID Award 2008
The Forum AID competition is the biggest of its kind in northern Europe and turns the spotlight on the best that has been produced in the Nordic region during the past year. The Forum AID Award comprises three categories: A for architecture, I for interior design and D for design.
Each category is represented by a jury member. The meetings are led by a chairperson with experience from all of the categories. The jury is comprised of the following four people:
Detlef Rahe -- chair
Detlef Rahe is an architect and designer. Previously dean of the design faculty at Bauhaus (Hochschule Anhalt) at Dessau and guest professor at the School of Design and Crafts (HDK) in Gothenburg, Sweden. Today he is director of the Institute of Integrated Design and professor at the Hochschule für Künste, both of them in Bremen Germany. Detlef Rahe runs his own design company, rahe + rahe, in collaboration with his wife Ulrike Rahe.
Detlef Rahe will lead the jury meetings.
Hans Ibelings -- A-representative
Hans Ibelings (Rotterdam Netherlands 1963) is editor and publisher of A10 new European architecture, a bimonthly magazine which he has founded in 2004 together with graphic designer Arjan Groot. Hans Ibelings has curated exhibitions at the Netherlands Architecture Institute, edited the Yearbook Architecture in the Netherlands and is the author of a number of books including Supermodernism: Architecture in the Age of Globalization (translated into Spanish, French and Italian), Unmodern Architecture: Contemporary Traditionalism in the Netherlands. He was visiting professor at the Ecole Polytechnique Federale Lausanne.
Lorraine Farrelly -- I-representative
Lorraine Farrelly is the deputy head of the school of architecture at the University of Portsmouth UK and is a specialist lecturer in the area of drawing. Her research interests are in the area of urban regeneration and interior space with conference presentations and papers published internationally. Her architecture diploma design unit explores the idea of the 'fictional city', projects have been based in various European cities including Venice and Rotterdam. In the UK she is a member of the South East Regional design panel, Its remit is to champion design excellence and sustainability, it reviews and advices on strategic development in cities and towns across the south east region. As a qualified architect and a member of the Royal Institute of British Architects and is a Fellow of the Royal Society of Arts. Her practice projects completed range from interior fit out of bars and restaurants and retail design through to individual house design, school design and public spaces.
Lorraine has produced several internationally published books and papers.
Johan Valcke -- D-representative
Johan Valcke ( Bruges, Belgium 1952) studied archaeology and history of art at the State University of Ghent (R.U.G.), Belgium, and worked from 1975 until 1991 as an art historian for the Contemporary Crafts Department of the Economical and Social Institute for the Self-Employed (ESIM), a Belgian governmental institution. In the beginning of the eighties he concentrated on contemporary jewellery, a theme on which he realised a number of important exhibitions and publications. He is a founding member and manager of WCC Flanders, in World Crafts Council from 1981 until today. In 1991 he was appointed Director of Design Flanders. His task is to promote contemporary design-led crafts, graphic, web and industrial design within a target public of designers, design companies and the larger public. During the years the matching of designers and companies was added to his competences. Therefore he and his colleagues organize a six monthly talent scouting, run a design gallery in the heart of Brussels, participate at selected fairs (Köln, Milan, New York, Tokyo, Montréal, etc …) edit a quarterly magazine "Kwintessens" (Quintessence), of which he is the founder, and other publications, give grants to artists and companies, organize a public information centre.
