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I’ve received a note from a BraunPrize team member today about a recent email conversation with one of the visitors of the BraunPrize website.

In this email a design student raised some criticism about the (according to his view) low proportion of time invested into the judgment process in comparison to the (absolutely high!) number of submissions. And to be honest this first sight impression is more than understandable!

For sure a member of the BraunPrize team has been so kind to respond and explain some of the most important details around the judgment process and jury sessions to the student. After all I think some arguments from this conversation might be worth to share with you. Unfortunately the correspondence has been in German so the value of some snippets might be limited. However let me try to summarize the most important statements for you here:

• In total there are 2 Jury Sessions each of which lasts for 3 days. This makes a total of 6 full workdays!
• For each jury session the complete city hall of Kronberg (Braun’s Corporate Headquarter) is being reserved for the BraunPrize competition.
• For the duration of the jury sessions all stakeholders fully dedicate their time into the judgment procedure. Due to the location there is no quick chance neither for checking emails nor for any ad-hoc meetings with externals ;-)
• In case of any technical questions or concerns a team of engineers, health professionals and senior designers is instantly available for any consultations

Last but not least all invited jury members (present and past) are professionals in their domain and have worked several times in similar contexts. So your work/submission is in good hands!

Thanks to e.sens.e (the Media Agency which is responsible for the technical setup around this blog and the BraunPrize website among others) I’ve been able to share this well edited video below containing impressions from the jury sessions of the BraunPrize 2003. In the video you will see Anne Stenros, Alexander Manu, Rainer Silbernagel and Peter Schneider among others during and in between the jury sessions. Enjoy!

Link: sevenload.com

P.S.: Stay tuned as I will post some notes about the current Jury members of the BraunPrize 2007 soon. Furthermore I’m even more excited about the fact that I will join the jury at their first jury meeting in Kronberg on March, 14th – 15th.