Conditions - New Material Award

Rules and Regulations
New Material Award 2014
Rule 1 General
The New Material Award, a collaboration between the DOEN Foundation, Het Nieuwe Instituut and the
Materiaalfonds voor Beeldende Kunst en Vormgeving (hereinafter referred to as the Organization),
consists of a prize of € 15,000 for an end product, and a fellowship at Het Nieuwe Instituut for a
detailed idea that does not have to have been carried out and to which a research question is linked.
The award is open to artists, designers, fashion designers and architects working in Netherlands and
for students of Dutch art, fashion, design and architecture schools.
75% of the prize money of € 15,000 is to be spent on a continuation of the design with which the award
was won. A report hereof shall be provided by the winner within 12 months after 20 November 2014.
The New Material Fellow is rewarded by the jury on the basis of a research proposal and the winner
will be able to carry out (continued) research into material innovation thanks to the prize money of the
DOEN Foundation (at € 5,000) and the network and platform provided by Het Nieuwe Instituut. The
Fellow will perform his or her research independently and will share the (interim) results through the
various communication channels of Het Nieuwe Instituut.
The New Material Fellow’s research falls within the context of Het Nieuwe Instituut’s ‘Things and
Materials’ programme line. This programme will not only lead to classic topics such as the renewed
attention for handicraft and the revaluation of the object. Another topic of discussion will be the
current crossovers between nature, science and creativity, based on gene technology and motivated
by the current democratization of science, among other things. An interesting and important area of
research is characterized by the new relationship between biology and design.
Het Nieuwe Instituut will support the Fellow’s research for a period of up to six months, by allowing
use of its network and providing a platform. For this period, the New Material Fellow is committed
to carrying out his or her research within the context of the programme of Het Nieuwe Instituut. The
exact conditions of facilitation in the form of providing network and platform will be determined after
an interview that will take place after the award ceremony and before the end of the year in which the
award is presented.
Rule 2Entry
The entry (a completed registration form with explanatory notes and images) must be submitted no
later than 6 July 2014 to [email protected].
Material samples can be sent to:
New Material Award
p/a Het Materiaalfonds
Postbus 17197
1001 JD Amsterdam
Per entry, an amount of € 50 is payable (incl. VAT) to:
Account number: NL19 INGB 0674 9761 18
in the name of Stichting Materiaalfonds
stating ‘Entry New Material Award’ and name of entrant
The payment of the registration fee must be credited to the account listed above no later than
6 July 2014.
Rule 3 Participation
Entry is open to natural persons. Products and designs with which a member of the selection
committee or a juror is directly involved, are excluded from participation.
Rule 4Exhibition, transport and insurance
The nominated entrants will be invited to exhibit the selected work at an exhibition at Het Nieuwe
Instituut in Rotterdam from 20 November 2014 through 5 January 2015.
Exposition
The nominated entrants will bear the cost, including insurance costs, of transporting the submitted
work to the exhibition location at Het Nieuwe Instituut.
The entrant will bear the transport costs of the submitted work, including insurance costs, from Het
Nieuwe Instituut.
The Organization is responsible for the insurance of the works during the exhibition at Het Nieuwe
Instituut. For this purpose, the lender will supply the following information before transport to the
location:
• Description of the object
• Loan yes/no?
• Origin
• Manner of transport to location
• Manner of return transport/next destination
• Next destination
• Value (approximately)
This information can be sent to: [email protected].
Rule 5Nomination committee and jury
The Organization will appoint a nomination committee.
The Organisation will appoint a jury of three members, consisting of at least one expert in the field of
visual arts and design, and one expert in the field of durable material and innovation. Het Nieuwe Instituut
will nominate one of the three jury members, in view of the Fellow’s research and the connection with
Het Nieuwe Instituut.
Rule 6 Decision-making
A nomination committee will select the participants for the exhibition on the basis of a PowerPoint
presentation and material samples from all entries. If the committee requires additional information,
the entrant must supply this within ten days.
In case of doubt, the jury may invite the owner of a selected design for an interview or her or she will be
asked to submit further information.
The jury will select the winner of the New Material Award and the winner of the New Material Fellow
with a majority vote. The jury justifies its choice in a jury report.
Appeal against the jury’s decision is not possible.
Rule 7 Final provisions
• By submitting his or her work, the entrant grants the Organization of the New Material Award the
right to exhibit or make public the submitted work, and to reproduce images thereof, in any way,
within the framework of the New Material Award.
• The entrant indemnifies the Organization from any claims with regard to infringement of the
intellectual property rights of third parties. The applicant must also ensure that images sent in by
him or her of the submitted work may be published free of charge and without further conditions
within the framework of the New Material Award 2014. He or she indemnifies the Organization from
any claims in this context.
• The Organization exercises the utmost care in dealing with the submitted work. By entering, the
entrant indemnifies the Organization from liability in the case of damage to the submitted work.
• The Organization is obliged to return the material made available by the entrant, in which the
submitted work is embodied, with the exception of the visual material presenting the submitted
work. Upon request – and at the expense the entrant – the work can be returned to the sender.
Protection from liability in case of damage also applies to this transport.
CRITERIA
In considering the submissions, the following aspects are taken into account:
• Is it a new sustainable material or an innovative, sustainable application of a material?
• Are environmental aspects taken into account at every stage, or as many stages as possible, of the
life cycle of the design?
• The overall quality and design of the idea, design or product.
• The artistic quality of the idea, design or product.
• How realistic and feasible is the idea or design (is it applicable, is it inspiring, what is the potential)?
• To what extent is the approach innovative?
• Does the design respond to or anticipate current and pressing issues in our society?

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