SCHOTT CERAN Design Awards 2017

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We believe that there are cooking spaces around the SCHOTT CERAN® glass-ceramic cooking panel, which are still unexplored and unexhausted. We named them FUSICS – because we’re curios about the function, urbanism,
sustainability, illumination, connectivity and social experience they could have.

So what are we looking for?

Keep the SCHOTT CERAN® glass-ceramic cooking panel in the center and create the space around it. Think of new kitchen block designs with combination of different materials. Integrate illumination and future technology. And keep in mind that today, kitchens are living spaces. Now it’s up to you: design your imagination with glass-ceramic and countless other materials.

Subject of the DESIGN AWARD

Now it’s up to you, to bring our favorite material to the future. We named the unexplored cooking spaces around the SCHOTT CERAN® cooking panel FUSICS, because we’re curios about:

FUNCTION

Cooking used to be done behind closed doors, but today the kitchen turned often to the heart of home. It’s no longer only a place to prepare food – it’s a place to enjoy cooking. This is when functions and features helps you to get out the best and most comfortable cooking experience as possible, e.g. by integrating a scale right under the glass-ceramic cooking panel. But this is only one idea. What’s yours?

URBANISM

It’s no secret that nowadays there are more people living in urban spaces than in rural areas. Living spaces become smaller, walls are giving away for open spaces. This increasing trend should be concerned in your design – maybe the cooktop panels are part of your dining table?

SUSTAINABILITY

From the first idea through the production up to the shipping we always pay attention to resource friendly and energy efficient solutions. That makes SCHOTT CERAN® a completely eco-friendly glass-ceramic cooktop panel – and a perfect material to work with for the future. Use it for your ideas, give it another shape or color, combine it with other materials and think about environmentally friendly cycles and processes that will make your design extraordinary.

ILLUMINATION

There is always space for a hi-light, no matter if you use the illuminating element as a design or functional feature. Ambient Light will always set a unique mark at the cooking space, while a light guiding system shows the way to a perfect meal. Just find your way to illuminate your best cooking experience.

CONNECTIVITY

Make the cooking space smart. Your conceptualized ideas of connectivity and mobility can play with an interactive and interconnected display as the control center of your cooking space or you use it as supporting element for your cooking experience – or you use it in a way we never thought about.

SOCIAL EXPERIENCE

We believe that human beings will be the master chefs of the future cooking. Therefore, think the cooking space social, cultural, diverse and emotional. Design a space, you would love to spent time together with friends or family – in person or digital.

Design Criteria

Creative freedom, as a credo, is essential to this contest. Technological limitations or physical boundaries can be disregarded at this stage.
The entries should stand out thanks to their exceptional nature from the following perspectives:

• Overall concept: Cooking FUSICS (see 01)
• Degree of innovation
• Design quality
• Functionality and usability
• Practical value
• Creativity

Projects should not be currently in production and must stay confidential until the competition results are revealed.