At the Commerce Design Brussels colloquium at Flagey the 23 september 2008, the competition for the Brussels Commerce Design award for the best commercial redevelopments will be officially launched for the Brussels Region. Developed from an original concept by the City of Montreal, Pro Materia and Design September have organised this free competition with the support of the Brussels Region and of Design September.

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The call for candidates is made via a registration form which will be distributed at the time of the colloquium and to which must be attached specific documents such as images on a CD, project plans, descriptive texts… They will be distributed within a large network of professional partners, of press relations and on the internet site. Following the reception of the candidates dossiers, a jury composed of professionals from different disciplines (architecture, interior design, design, graphics, urban design …) will meet to select 20 businesses who will be nominated for the Grand Prix of the Jury and of which 1 will be chosen by a public vote at the end of a large promotional campaign. These 20 prizewinners will then be ambassadors of quality in design and will be a source of inspiration for the shopkeepers who would like to call upon the services of an interior designer or of a creative for the design of their shop. The adopted criteria to evaluate the projetcs are as much the quality of design (aesthetics, creativity, coherence interior/façade/graphics, functionality, security, ease of upkeep, durability…), as the context and impact on the city and its tourists or inhabitants. The jury will select, where possible, projects which reflect the budgets, the commercial vocations, the identities and the cultures of the areas and their various styles.

Agenda

September 2008

call to candidates (official launch 23.9.2008)

January 2009

jury selection

April 2009

gala and announcement of the 20 Grand Prix winners with the launch of the public’s prize

May-August 2009

public’s vote (Internet site, on-line)

September 2009

announcement of the public’s choice, promotional press campaign and launch of call to candidates 2009/10 in the locales of Design September