The Central European Initiative (CEI) Prize of the 10th International Design Contest “Trieste Contemporanea” 2012 has been assigned to Croatian designer Ena Priselec for her project to refashion a coffee grinder.
For this year’s Contest, which registered about 200 participants, artists and designers were asked to select a functional object from the recent past and propose an idea for its redefinition or reuse.
"Our intention was to work in countertendency with current trends, given the fact that we live in a saturated consumer market where design is everywhere and nowhere," says Susanna Legrenzi from Milan, curator and journalist of the 2012 contest.
The international jury was composed of Giulio Cok (Trieste Contemporanea), Barbara Fabro (CEI), Emanuela Marassi (artist), Marco Petroni (curator, Fondazione Plart, Naples), Maja Vardjan (curator, Museum of Architecture and Design, Ljubljana), Janka Vukmir (curator, Institute for Contemporary Art, Zagreb).