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DesignNewswire · COMO, Italy ·

Responsive Spaces Is Honored with the Bronze A' Design Award for Zeit–los Spatial Light Installation in Installation Design

Responsive Spaces acknowledged for installation design by the international grand jury of the 2024 - 2025 A' Design Award & Competition

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COMO, Italy, April 25, 2025 /DesignNewswire/ A' Design Award & Competition has announced that Zeit–los Spatial Light Installation by Responsive Spaces, designed for Nova Zone Innovation GmbH, has been granted the Bronze A' Design Award in the Installation Design category. The award was conferred within the 2024 - 2025 A' Design Award & Competition and was decided through blind peer review by an international grand jury panel of established academics, design professionals and press members, who scored anonymized entries against predetermined criteria.

What the Bronze A' Design Award Means

The Bronze A' Design Award is given to outstanding designs that showcase a high degree of creativity and practicality. It recognizes the dedication and skill of designers who produce work that stands out for its thoughtful development and innovative use of materials and technology. These designs are acknowledged for their professional execution and potential to influence industry standards positively. Winning this award highlights the designer's ability to blend form and function effectively, offering solutions that enhance people's lives and wellbeing.

About Zeit–los Spatial Light Installation

The Installation Zeit–los is a visual presence of the theme: locating time in space. Responsive Spaces created a generative light installation that fulfills several tasks in the client's workshop rooms: Recording time, background display at events, using the installation as a tool (timer, countdown or interactive hourglass) as well as individual color adjustment and an abstract display of real-time weather data for daily planning. The light installation can easily be controlled and adjusted by everybody with their mobile phone.

About Responsive Spaces

Responsive Spaces is a studio for creative technology, that creates and develops immersive and interactive brand experiences. Its tangible and walkable digital installations focus on immersive and interactive story telling and therefore combine any kind of digital worlds with physical places and locations. Recent projects range from trade shows, exhibitions and digital enhanced architecture to live-events and digital prototyping. Responsive Spaces takes pride in focusing on the story and the messages that ought to be delivered and then leverages almost any kind of digital technology to propel them to new heights.

Award Record

Responsive Spaces is a winner of 10 A' Design Awards, including this recognition. The awards span the editions from 2017 - 2018 to 2024 - 2025 of the A' Design Award & Competition.

About the A' Interactive, Experiential and Immersive Design Installations Award

The A' Installation Design Award is an international installation design competition recognizing good installation designs by best installation designers worldwide. The competition is organized within the A' Design Award & Competition and is open to installation designers, experiential design studios, interactive design agencies and immersive technology experts from all countries. Entries typically include sculptural installations, light installations, sound installations, digital installations, kinetic installations and site-specific installations. Awarded interactive installation designs are published at https://dezigners.org/design-category/installation

About A' Design Award & Competition

A' Design Award & Competition is an international, juried design accolade organized annually since 2008. The competition is open to entries from all countries. The A' Design Award has a philanthropic mission to advance society through good design by recognizing and promoting superior products, projects and services that benefit society, and by creating a global awareness and appreciation for good design practices and principles. Entries are peer reviewed and anonymously evaluated by an international grand jury panel of established academics, design professionals and press members against predetermined criteria such as functionality, ergonomics, engineering, presentation, innovation, usability, sustainability and technology, with score normalization applied to remove biases. Awards are conferred at Platinum, Gold, Silver, Bronze and Iron levels. The A' Design Prize granted to eligible laureates includes the award trophy, the certificate of design excellence, the hardcover yearbook, a lifetime license to use the A' Design Award winner logo, exhibition of awarded works, an invitation to the gala night and award ceremony in Italy, inclusion in the World Design Rankings and Designer Rankings, and public relations and publicity services. Registration, the upload of a work and the preliminary score are free of charge, and Professional and Digital Edition laureates are not contractually obliged to pay further fees to claim the A' Design Prize. Further information is available at https://competition.adesignaward.com

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Fact Sheet

The Work

Project
Zeit–los Spatial Light Installation
Function
Spatial Light Installation
Category
Installation Design
Discipline
Communication Design
Industry
Arts and Branding & Advertising
Colors
Black, Midnight Blue, Dark Slate Blue, Teal and Dark Slate Gray
Images
5
Client
Nova Zone Innovation GmbH

The Recognition

Laureate
Responsive Spaces
Country
Austria
Recognition
Bronze A' Design Award
Edition
2024 - 2025
Design ID
#163299

Credits

Team
Andreas Wurm, Katharina Mayrhofer; Interaction Design: Andreas Wurm, Katharina Mayrhofer; Development/Programming: Katharina Mayrhofer, Andrea Maderthaner; Assembly: Julian Reil
Image Credits
Responsive Spaces GmbH; Responsive Spaces GmbH Video Credits: Shooting: AMAGO GmbH Video Credits: Editing and Sound: Responsive Spaces GmbH

Design Details

Unique Properties
Zeit-los is placed at a location where people meet, exchange ideas, work together, discuss and create new things: the client’s workshop rooms.. The installation picks up on this spirit and supports it with visualizations. The Installation Zeit–los transforms the theme of time into visualizations. The visual approaches focuses on the aesthetics of time, the current time, working time and real time. These categories can be selected and color-adjusted using a remote control.n the working time category, the installation serves as an abstract workshop clock.
Inspiration
Emotional engagement with the topic of time. How can I use my time? How much is my time worth? Can time be planned? And how do I brand time in the colors of my company? All these big questions are answered in a simple and unmistakable way with this digital media installation. Unobtrusive and maximally usable. Tic Tac - the pattern is created by the arrangement of the tubes and visually picks up on existing elements in the customer's premises.
Research
Dealing with an unusual pixel arrangement or resolution enables abstract visualization approaches.
Challenge
This defined the arrangement of the lights and laid the foundation for the four modes of installation that were created (time, sign, stop and plan).
Realization and Technology
18 LED light tubes, indivudually developed mouting kit using steel cables
Operation and Interaction
Mobile application allows the users to operate the installation in real time. The app can be used to select the four visual modes, which in turn enable individual settings such as color settings or timings.
Project Duration and Location
The first publication was on 25th of june 2024.
Specifications
approximate size of 3.5 x 3.5 meter
Keywords
Interactive Installation, Light Installation, Spacial Experience

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