Gender Design Award iphiGenia

Design shapes the world. Therefore it is necessary to bring gender awareness to the design process, to avoid both gender blindness and gender stereotypes. Every year, the iphiGenia Gender Design Award honors the world’s best gender sensitive designs. 

 
The winners have been chosen. The jury, consisting of Prof. Tanja Godlewsky, Profa. Dra. Raquel Noronha, Prof. Dr. Felix Kosok  as well as Dipl.-Des. Claudia Herling and Prof. Dr. Bianca Herlo, has made their decision. With us was board member Ina von Rumohr as well as iGDN treasurer Dr. Julia Pierzina who kept everyone on track and documented the session.

Thank you for all your submissions to iphiGenia 2025!
We’re excited about the many inspiring entries we received.
The award ceremony will take place on November 4, 2025 at the Museum of Applied Arts in Cologne.
The jury has met on June 17, 2025, and all winners will be notified by July 1, 2025

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With the Gender Design Award iphiGenia, we reward excellent design examples for their gendersensive qualities. They shall inspire and be followed by many more intelligent designs in the spirit of the Award. Awarded by the international Gender Design Network/iGDN, this unique prize is beeing presented in three categories:
Evolution
The iphiGenia Gender Design Award Evolution is given to established or young companies, agencies or other initiatives that explicitly support the cause of gender-sensitive design and whose work unites an all-embracing, convincing approach to this issue with excellence in design and execution.
Revolution
The iphiGenia Gender Design Award Revolution recognises an individual product (including campaigns, communication design, digital designs, services etc.) showing a credible and innovative fusion of gender-sensitivity and intelligent design.
Volition
The award for young design talents, iphiGenia Gender Design Award Volition (will, power of willing). With this prize, the jury responds to the large number of committed student projects that were entered to the iphiGenia Gender Design Awards.
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