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This year, the triennial Prix Emile Hermès International Design Award 2011

called Heat, re-heat, me-heat is focused on the support of progress and a more eco-friendly, peoplefriendly society.

The key issue of the Prix is to raise public awareness of energy consumption issues.

The jury selects the winners from 1,460 projects received from 63 countries. A selection was made based on a wide range of categories, in particular: innovative heating devices, mobile heating, cooking systems, carpets and textiles, braziers, shelters, hand or feet-warmers and composters. An interactive, dynamic exhibition will be available online at [W prixemilehermes.com]

The winners for the three prizes were announced on October 18, 2011. The1prize (50,000 Euros) went to Arnaud Le Cat, Esther Bacot and Luther Quenum (France, Unqui Designers collective) for Shelved Cooking, a low-energy cooktop. The2prize went to Daniel (25,000 Euros) Abendroth and Andreas Meinhardt (Germany) for the H-Agent, an automatic, mobile heating device designed to capture and store excess heat, redistributing it in cooler areas. The3prize (15,000 Euros) went to Jarl Fernaeus (Sweden) for the Ecoje stove, designed to reduce the consumption of renewable solid fuel and limit deforestation and pollution in emerging countries.

Because of the very high standard of all the projects submitted this year, the jury decided to award a Special Mention to Mohsen Saleh and Seyed Abdolnasser Taghavi (Iran/Italy) for their Light Farm, an architectural module using high-density photovoltaic technology capable of generating 40 % of a household’s electricity needs.

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