Post Processing Jury Session 2
This second jury session has been somehow different from the first one since this time the jury has been able to focus on a wider set of criteria (applied to ‘only’ 68 submissions) in contrast to selecting from a range of 903 submissions as last time. As said in my previous posting I’ve been only able to join the jury for their last day (Wednesday, June 13th to be precise). As they’ve been pretty productive I unfortunately missed the part when they’ve narrowed down their selections from 68 to the 24 BraunPrize Exhibition participants and 4 finalists.
So, while writing this posting I’ve just thought about asking Gerlinde Kress (head of project management of the BraunPrize) to share at least some snippets from the final jury statements which will accompany the objects along with the BraunPrize 2007 exhibition. This will give you an impression about the level of precision and aggregation of the jury judgments. I’ll keep you posted on this!
On the other hand the time buffer the jury realized by efficient discussions has enabled me to conduct some more video interviews as promised. This time I’ve been able to get udo Milutzki, Vice President of Gillette/Braun engineering and Peter Schneider, Chairman of the BraunPrize Jury for some ten minutes interviews. And as a bonus I’ve also been able to get the three external jury members: Moni Wolf (Motorola), Mark Breitenberg (Art Center College, Pasadena) and Benjamin Holch (frog design) for an informal chat in front of the camera.
I’m currently scanning and processing the material and I will post them within the next couple of days. Stay tuned .-)
