iphi 2019 / 3. iphGenia Gender Design Award

Der bislang einzigartige "iphiGenia Gender Design Award - oder kurz "iphi" - für herausragendes gender-sensibles Design wird am 14. November 2019 um 18:00 Uhr zum dritten Mal im Museum für Angewandte Kunst in Köln vergeben.

Organisiert wird die feierliche Preisverleihung vom "international Gender Design Network" mit Unterstützung der Stadt Köln sowie weiteren Sponsoren. Die Gastrednerin dieses Jahr ist die Literaturwissenschaftlerin und Mode-Expertin Prof. Dr. Barbara Vinken von der Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München.

Gewinner*innen 2019:

Gabriel A. Maher (Winner Category Evolution) brings research and design together in performance situations to question design and media practices through queer and feminist frameworks.

The Australian designer is currently living and working in the Netherlands. With a background in Interior Architecture and Social Design, their* investigations confront a range of intersectional concerns, which frame concepts of gender, white privilege, class privilege and sexuality from a design and also a power perspective. - Maher is also mentor and guest lecturer at the Design Academy Eindhoven and The Royal Academy of the Arts in The Hague.

Maher provides a significant contribution to raising awareness of and publicising gender-sensitive design. With the iphi 2019, the jury recognises Maher’s multi-disciplinary projects: an outstanding example of comprehensive and wide-ranging work in gender design

*The designer identifies as queer & non-binary and uses pronouns: They/Them/Theirs*
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Dr. Seba Ali (Winner Category Revolution) is the founder of the IMAGINE workshop and concert series at the Lebanese American University (LAU) in Beirut. The multi-disciplinary event addresses issues such as gender equality and human rights. In addition to music, dance and theatre performances by forgotten artists, the first queer fashion show in Lebanon was staged at the campus.

The event series has kicked off a courageous and open dialogue on art, design and gender, thus providing a significant contribution to the public and academic discourse, as well as to promoting acceptance of diversity.
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Rora Blue (Winner Category Voliton) lives and works as a New Genres Artist in San Francisco. Since 2015 her work has been exhibited throughout the US and in Germany and Belgium. The young artist invented a provocative houmorous and easily understandable visualisation and dissemination of collective sexist experiences by using means of Social Media for personal interaction with her audience: she translates individual personal experiences of her followers into highly original graphics and photography. This results in powerful statements and beautiful artwork that is to by an fun to have.
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