Some 420 projects from all fields participated in BID20, including 22 from Uruguay. Following the deliberations of an international jury, 140 proposals were selected as finalists.
The biennial will open on November 23, 2020, and will remain open to the public until the end of January 2021. It will take place at the Central de Diseño space, within the Matadero Madrid Center for Contemporary Creation (Spain).
The event's jury members were Paola Antonelli, Anna Buckhardt, Fernando Campana, Humberto Campana, Ti Chang, Marisa Gallén, Stiven Kerestegian, Danielle Lafurie, Chaz Maviyane-Davies, and Marina Willer.
Women of the Streets
How many of our streets are named after women? Inspired by that question, in 2015 a group of designers created a collaborative map on atunombre.uy where users could mark the streets in Montevideo named after women. The result: just 141 out of a total of 5,678.
The project, now called "Mujeres con calle," was developed in collaboration with DATA Uruguay and is being carried out by the Urban Development Department of the Montevideo City Government. One of the designers who has been involved since the beginning is Carolina Curbelo, an ORT instructor.
The goal is to highlight the contributions made by women in our society and promote public recognition of them through the names of streets in Montevideo. We want to see to what extent these contributions are valued and recognized, and what these women did to “go down in history” by having a street, alley, or avenue named after them.
Bow
A simple, versatile, and fluid design. That’s how the Lazo rack is described—created by Ernesto Fasano, Pablo Jaime, and Clarisa Bielawsky ofthe Sámago studio, and a finalist in the Product/Industrial Design category at the 7th Ibero-American Design Biennial.
Clarisa Bielawski, who holds a bachelor’s degree inindustrial design, is a professor at the School of Design and has been working at the Sámago studio since 2017.
This is not the first time the Lazo rack has received recognition. In February, it stood out as the only international project among the fourteen winners at the Salão Design in Brazil.
Other selected projects
- The "Fieldwork" typeface, in the Graphic Design and Visual Communication category, was created by Vicente Lamónaca, Fernando Díaz, and Martín Sommaruga—the first two being faculty members at the School of Design.
- Libertaria, a premium craft cider, in the Graphic Design and Visual Communication category, by estudioanimal, created by Santiago Dutour, B.A. in Graphic Design, and Santiago Uribe.
- Visual identity for the craft beer brand Oceánica, in the Graphic Design and Visual Communication category, by the design studio Mundial, founded by Francisco Cunha, Martín Azambuja, and Juan Pablo Palarino—the latter two of whom hold bachelor’s degrees in graphic design from ORT.
- Book covers, in the Graphic Design and Visual Communication category of Maca/Diseño, created by Gustavo Wojciechowski, a faculty member at the School of Design and former professor of Editorial and Advertising Design.
