Winners of the International Student Poster Design Competition: Age-friendly Living / Altersgerechtes Wohnen, Berlin, 2016
Received from Prof. Heinz Jürgen Kristahn. Please visit the Call for entries or the official website for more details.

Heinz Jürgen Kristahn Age-friendly Living - aesthetic approaches to a social challenge When we're young, and we were all young once, we give little thought to growing old. And why should we? It's a long way away. "What's old age got to do with me?" they say, and as we know it is the prerogative of the young to ask difficult questions. Marie von Ebner-Eschenbach offers an answer: "Old age either transfigures or fossilizes." But sooner or later old age concerns us all, as the young will come to know as they grow older themselves. Its onset is certain; it is, after all, a perfectly natural phenomenon that can neither be halted nor avoided. This is what makes a poster competition so direct. It doesn't address "society in general" that "has to change"; it speaks to each and every one of us, directly and personally. The poster competition serves primarily as a means of communicating the need and conditions for age-friendly living using a new visual aesthetic and clear, unmistakable formal language along with modern artistic motifs to anchor a clear message in the mind of the viewer. The intention of the posters is therefore to stimulate people to think about what an adequate, barrier-free living environment entails - not just for old people general but also in personal and practical terms for their own living situation. The sanitation industry already produces numerous products and concepts that enable individuals to create their own conditions for personal and physical autonomy in the future. Making use of these possibilities and incorporating these into our own, individual life planning is not a matter for society in general but something that each and every one of us can and should take into our hands as part of making provisions for our own future. This poster competition uses the means of art and aesthetics to raise awareness of and communicate the numerous issues of living in old age. It addresses people of all ages and attempts to make younger people aware of the central importance of making provisions for old age. Finally, I would like to end with a poignant thought from Cicero: "Not old age is the problem, but how we approach it."

Results of the competition Mit 2701 Einsendungen hat der Wettbewerb einen sehr großen internationalen Zuspruch gefunden. Die erste Auswahl hat am 05. Januar 2017 die Vorjury durchgeführt. Vorjury-Mitglieder: • Prof. Dr. Dominik Pietzcker, Deutschland / Vorsitzender Pre-Jury • Prof. Dirk van der Meulen, Deutschland • Prof. Dr. Otfried Scholz, Deutschland • Shuang Wu, M.A., China • Gia Janezashvili, M:A: Georgien Ausgewählt wurden 181 Plakate, von denen die internationalen Fach- und Sach-Jury im Januar 2017 die folgenden Plakate auszeichneten: Vorsitz der Jury: Prof. Heinz Jürgen Kristahn, IKD Berlin, Deutschland Fachjury-Mitglieder: • Prof. Ph.D. Akira Harada, Japan • Rene Wanner Art Consulting, Schweiz • Prof. Richard Doubleday, USA • Prof. Amrollah Farhadi, Iran • Prof. Isidro Ferrer, Spanien • Prof. Jerzy Skakun, Polen Sachjury-Mitglieder: • Gunther Adler, State Secretary at the Federal Ministry for the Environment, Nature Conservation, Building and Nuclear Safety • Prof. Dr. Dr. h.c. Ursula Lehr, Second Vice President of the Bundesarbeitsgemeinschaft der Senioren-Organisationen e.V. (The German Association of Organisations for Seniors, BAGSO) • Marjan Sedmak, President AGE Platform Europe • Friedrich Budde, Vice-President of the ZVSHK German Sanitation, Heating and Air Conditioning Association • Erwin F. Reisch, Publisher, Gentner Verlag, Stuttgart • Franz Kaldewei, Managing Director Franz Kaldewei GmbH & Co. KG • Detlev Kalischer, KfW banking group Preistraeger / Sonderpreistraeger 1. Preis 2500 Euro - Ye Yang - China 2. Preis 1500 Euro - Lupeng Chi - China 3. Preis 1000 Euro - Yiwei Zhao - China Sonderpreis Der Firma Franz Kaldewei - Sihui He - China Sonderpreis des Gentner Verlages - Jose Luis Lopez Macias - Ecuador Sonderpreis des Praesidenten des ZVSHK 1 - Nonlapat Leesomprasong - Thailand Sonderpreis des Praesidenten des ZVSHK 2 - Zheng Meng - China Sonderpreis von Gunther Adler Staatssekretaer - Xuemei Luo - China

Here are the winning posters: Ye Yang - China Lupeng Chi - China Yiwei Zhao - China Sihui He - China Jose Luis Lopez Macias - Ecuador Nonlapat Leesomprasong - Thailand Zheng Meng - China Xuemei Luo - China and a selection of other interesting contributions: Ali Masumbeigi (IR) Alimami Luqman Gassama (CA) Angelika Staruch (PL) Can Yang (CN) Chonlada Sripathumvaraporn (TH) Dilan Artug (TR) Hanyu Han (CN) Henry Schaper (DE) Huifang Cheng (CN) Huiying Tan (SP) Jiadong Lu (CN) Mengting Lin (CN) Pemika Yosakrai (TH) Rok Malovrh (SI) Sandra Helene Olsson (DE) Shuying Zheng (CN) Sixuan Chai (CN) Viktor Andriievskyi (UA) Wenzhu Zhao (CN) Wu Jin (CN) Xinyi He (CN) Xuemei Luo (CN) Yingying Ren (CN) Zhang Xue (TW) Abdelmonem Amin (US) Hongyu Fang (CN) Rui Yan (CN) Names of the designers of the 100 best poster submissions: Ye Yang Lupeng Chi Yiwei Zhao Wenzhu Zhao Ranran Xu Nonlapat Leesomprasong Yaodi Zhao Sixuan Chai Sixuan Chai Junnan Han Tong Zhao Ali Masumbeigi Masumbeigi Ye Yang Miao Yue Qiyang Wei Ting Yuan Xinyi He Tingyun Xu Zheng Meng Yangcan Can Jiadong Lu Panchanit Sathorn Junnan Han Wu Jin Chao Zhou Chuqiao Cui Ranran Xu Rui Yan Mengcen Zhang Lupen Chi Haoran Zhang Sirikorn Iampattanatham Pemika Yosakrai Tingyun Xu Xinyi He Yuantian Li Wipaporn Kusonsakthavee Jiadong Lu Jianing Sui Yangcan Can Sandra Helene Olsson Min Yao Viktor Andriievskyi Wang Jing Jiadong Lu Jiadong Lu Zheng Meng Nantanut Srisangnum Ali Masumbeigi Masumbeigi Alimami Luqman Gassama Jiadong Lu Zhang Xue Abdelmonem Amin Lena Kilian Tatporn Chuaynarong Wanatsanan Pikulkaew Yang Su Rui Yu Jiadong Lu Zhang Xue Yangcan Can Zhen Wang José Luis López Jiadong Lu Yingying Ren Sihui He Chonlada Sripathumvaraporn Rok Malovrh Shaotong Li Qingwen Zhang Haoran Zhang Tingyun Xu Wu Jin Huiping Xu Angelika Staruch Rui Yu Dilan Artu? Xuemei Luo Tingyun Xu Boyu Xu Zihan Liu Chuqiao Cui Hanyu Han Zhang Xue Yangcan Can Lijuan Li José Luis López Sicen Guo Xuemei Luo Yu Fu Huifang Cheng Fanglin Lu Henry Schaper Wu Jin Mesike Männik Wu Jin Wang Jing Jingli Li Jiadong Lu Miao Yue Tirada Deeprasitthikul Qingwen Zhang Yingtan Hui Chao Zhou Worawee Lu Yu Chen Sichao Chen Mengcen Zhang Rui Yu Tao Dan Hongyu Fang Xuemei Luo Thitirat Kittikornvanich Qingwen Zhang Sihui He Min Yao Shuying Zheng Jianing Sui Chenni Tao Wenbo Wang Xuemei Luo Yu Fang Wang Jing Qingwen Zhang Yangcan Can Jianing Sui Jianing Sui Zhen Wang Peining Sheng home   winners   page created on May 5, 2017/ this section is part of Rene Wanner's Poster Page /