Our world today faces formidable challenges. The Curry Stone Design Prize was created in the belief that designers can be an instrumental force for improving people’s lives and the state of the world. Our goal is to make the talents of leading designers available to broader segments of society and to inspire the next generation of designers to harness their ingenuity and craft for social good.
The Curry Stone Design Prize was founded by architect Clifford Curry and his wife, H. Delight Stone. Curry is a 1970 alumnus of the UK College of Architecture (now the UK College of Design) and for most of his career, a principal architect for William Colson, recognized as a pioneer in senior housing.
Nominees for the Curry Stone Design Prize are selected by an anonymous, rotating group of leaders representing broad fields of contemporary design, and key individuals with global vision from other disciplines. Unsolicited proposals are not accepted. A selection jury reviews the nominations to choose the winner and finalists. Emphasis is placed on emerging projects and ideas that may not have yet been taken to scale.
Past and present Curry Stone Design Prize advisors representing diverse fields of design on an international level include: Anne-Mie Devolder, Belgium and den Haag, the Netherlands; Emiliano Gandolfi, Venice, Italy, and Rotterdam, the Netherlands; Chee Pearlman, New York, NY; Cameron Sinclair and Kate Stohr of Architecture for Humanity, San Francisco, CA; Reyn van der Lugt, Rotterdam, the Netherlands.
The Curry Stone Design Prize has three main aspirations:
The recipient of the 2009 Curry Stone Design Prize will be announced on September 24, 2009 at the IdeaFestival in Louisville, Kentucky. Since 2000, the IdeaFestival has attracted leading and highly diverse thinkers from around the world to showcase and discuss important ideas in science, the arts, design, business, film, technology, education, and other disciplines, to promote breakthrough thinking.