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An international Jury selects the award-winning works from among those that are exhibited. A representative from the Selection Committee will also take part in the work of the jury and will explain the criteria used in selecting the works in the exhibition. The Jury will convene in Ljubljana on 4–5 October 2010. MEMBERS OF BIO 22 JURY: Vivian Cheng Wai Kwan Vivian Cheng is the international liaison manager at the Hong Kong Design Institute She completed a bachelor’s degree in industrial design at the Hong Kong Polytechnic University in 1987 and that same year received a special prize in the Young Designers of the Year award competition hosted by the Federation of Hong Kong Industries. She began her career as a watch designer, later becoming an industrial designer of fashion accessories. Eventually, she joined Lambda Industrial Limited as a product designer and won the Governor’s Award for Industry in Consumer Product Design in 1989. She completed her master’s degree in 1995 and joined the Vocational Training Council as a lecturer in product design. She has been the senior lecturer in product design, supervising the jewellery design course, and is currently responsible for international connections and relationships as well as industrial networking. She has long been an active figure in Hong Kong’s professional design organizations. She was a council member of the Chartered Society of Designers Hong Kong from 1990 to 2003 and is a member of the Hong Kong Designers Association. From 2002 to 2004, she served on the board of directors of the Hong Kong Design Centre, an organization supported by the Hong Kong SAR Government. She has actively participated in organizing design conferences and workshops, and has been a jury member for the Red Dot Design Award in Germany (2006–2009) and for BIO 21 in Slovenia (2008). Luigi Ferrara Luigi Ferrara is the director of the School of Design and the Institute without Boundaries at George Brown College in Canada. His previous accomplishments include his work with the International Council of the Societies of Industrial Design (ICSID) as a member of the executive board from 1997 to 2003 and then as president (2003–2005), after which he assumed the role of an ICSID senator. A registered architect (a member of the Ontario Association of Architects and the Royal Architectural Institute of Canada), he was the president and CEO of DXNet Inc. from 1999 to 2002. He was also the executive director of the ICSID 1997 congress “The Human Village”, and is the founding director of the Architectural Literacy Forum and an honorary member of the Association of Chartered Industrial Designers of Ontario. In addition to his roles as architect, designer, entrepreneur, educator and lecturer, he has curated exhibitions and authored books and catalogues. Malcolm Garrett Malcolm Garrett is a creative director at Applied Information Group, a graphic design consultancy with offices in London, Vancouver and Seoul. He is also the creative director of i-Design, the annual conference for the interactive design profession in London. With over three decades of graphic design experience, he has worked with all manner of communications, arts, and entertainment media, both analog and digital. His work throughout the 1980s with musicians such as Buzzcocks, Duran Duran, Simple Minds, and Peter Gabriel is widely regarded as having a seminal influence on contemporary graphic design. For the last two decades he has been particularly interested in user-experience and interface design for interactive media across a range of platforms, from the Web to interactive cinema. He holds the title Royal Designer for Industry and is a Fellow of the International Society of Typographic Designers. In 1998, he was nominated for the Prince Philip Designers Prize. Peter Krečič Peter Krečič, PhD (b. 1947) is an art historian and critic. He has been a curator at the Architecture Museum of Ljubljana since 1973 and its director since 1978 (the museum was renamed the Museum of Architecture and Design in 2010). Since 1988, he has also been a visiting professor in the Department of Landscape Architecture at the Biotechnical Faculty of the University of Ljubljana and, since 2004, a professor in the Faculty of Humanities, University of Primorska, in Koper. His main areas of research are Slovene and European modernism, postmodernism and the avant-garde, as well as design and architecture. During his tenure at the museum he has been involved organizing as many as seventeen Biennials of Industrial Design (from BIO 5 to BIO 21) and, along with theoretical problems in architecture and modernism, he has devoted himself also to design criticism. In 1973, he authored “An Analysis of the State of Industrial Design in the Socialist Republic of Slovenia” and, in 1974, he prepared a proposal for the training of designers in Slovenia. He has written numerous books, articles, and essays in the above-mentioned fields and has been a visiting lecturer throughout Europe and the USA. Sanna Simola Sanna Simola studied industrial design at the ISIA in Florence, Italy (1982–1988), graduating with a thesis on design for the visually impaired that was supervised by Enzo Mari. Since 1995, she has been active in the academic side of design, first teaching industrial design and more recently working on her doctoral thesis, “Design Diversities: Design as a System of Communication, Italy vs. Finland”, at the Aalto University, School of Art and Design, in Helsinki. She is particularly interested in experimental design methods, sustainable design, and culturally bound semantic values in design. She has been active in the Finnish Association of Industrial Designers (TKO) since the early 1990s and has served as the organization’s president since 2007; also since 2007, she has been the chair of the design board of The Finnish Association of Designers (Ornamo). She has been a member of the board of the Bureau of European Designa Associations (BEDA) since 2008. She is the co-editor of a book on the history of Finnish industrial design, published in 2008 to celebrate TKO’s fortieth anniversary and fifty years of the industrial design profession in Finland. JURY BIO 21 >> BIO 21 Jury: Victor Margolin, Vivian Cheng Wai Kwan, Paulo Maldonado, Iva Babaja in Johan Valcke. BIO 1-20 JURY >>