They will honor products that best integrate recycling, sustainability, and ecological transition policies alongside other eco-design experts.
For the tenth edition of the Archiproducts Design Awards, some of the most important international experts, for whom sustainability is a core principle in their work, have been reconfirmed as members of the Sustainability Award jury. They include Ursula Tischner, founder of Econcept; Mario Cucinella, an internationally renowned designer; and Andrea Trimarchi and Simone Farresin, founders of Studio Formafantasma.
They will recognize products that best adopt recycling, sustainability, and ecological transition practices.
In collaboration with other specialists in eco- and sustainable design, specially selected for the Sustainability Award jury of the tenth ADA edition, they will evaluate brands that have demonstrated a tangible commitment to reducing harmful emissions and environmental impacts across the entire product life cycle by prioritizing the use of recyclable and sustainable materials.
Ursula Tischner returns to the ADA 2025 Sustainability Jury
Ursula Tischner
Ursula Tischner is a German designer, researcher, consultant, and lecturer specializing in design for sustainability, circular design, social design, and eco-design.
She studied architecture, art, and product/industrial design. From early on, her studies focused on ecologically and socially meaningful approaches to the design of products, services, and systems. After completing her Bachelor’s and Master’s degrees, she worked as a researcher at the Wuppertal Institute for Climate, Environment and Energy, where she led research projects and published her first studies.
In 1996, she founded Econcept, an agency for sustainable design in Cologne, pioneering the field of eco and sustainable design. Since then, she has worked through Econcept to advise companies on sustainable design, lead research projects, develop and design solutions, publish, and teach in Germany and abroad.
Key milestones in her academic career include a professorship in Eco-design at the Design Academy Eindhoven in the Netherlands; teaching at Zurich University of the Arts in Switzerland; founding a Master’s in Sustainability Design at the Savannah College of Art and Design in the U.S.; and leading the Master’s in Eco-innovative Design at Joanneum University of Applied Sciences in Graz, Austria.
Since October 2022, she has been Professor of Sustainable Design and head of the Bachelor’s Program in Sustainable Design at Wilhelm Büchner Hochschule, Mobile University, in Darmstadt, Germany.
Mario Cucinella returns to the ADA 2025 Sustainability Jury
Mario Cucinella
Mario Cucinella was born in Palermo in 1960 and obtained a degree in Architecture from the University of Genoa in 1986.
In 1992, in Paris, he founded MCA – Mario Cucinella Architects, an architecture and design firm now headquartered in Bologna and Milan, where he also serves as creative director.
In 2015, he founded SOS, the School of Sustainability, a postgraduate program for young professionals and recent graduates focusing on applying sustainability principles to architecture and design. The goal is to equip future decision-makers with tools to address global environmental challenges through an open-minded, holistic, research-driven, and human-centered approach.
His work and enduring commitment to environmental and social issues in architecture and education have earned international recognition, including the International Fellowship of the Royal Institute of British Architects (2016) and the Honorary Fellowship of the American Institute of Architects (2017).
In 2018, he curated the Italian Pavilion at the 16th International Architecture Exhibition of the Venice Biennale with the exhibition Arcipelago Italia.
On June 20, 2024, MCA – Mario Cucinella Architects received the ADI Compasso d’Oro Award for the Museo d’Arte Fondazione Luigi Rovati project.
He has taught at the universities of Ferrara, Naples, Munich, and Nottingham.
He is the author of several publications, including the most recent Città foresta umana. L’empatia ci aiuta a progettare (2024, Giulio Einaudi Editore), written with Serena Uccello, explores how his work intersects with symbolic places in the city, such as schools, hospitals, prisons, museums, churches, homes, and offices, placing empathy and nature at the core of design.
Formafantasma returns to the ADA 2025 Sustainability Jury
Formafantasma, photo Federico Ciamei
Andrea Trimarchi (1983) and Simone Farresin (1980) are Studio Formafantasma, an Italian design firm based in Amsterdam. Their interest in product design began during the IM Master’s program at Design Academy Eindhoven, where they obtained their degrees in 2009.
Since then, Formafantasma has developed a cohesive body of work marked by experimental material research and the exploration of such topics as tradition, local culture, and critical approaches to sustainability.
In viewing their role as a bridge between craft, industry, object, and user, they focus on connecting their research-based practice with the broader design industry.
Their work has been commissioned by such partners as Fendi, Max Mara – Sportmax, Hermès, Droog, Nodus Rug, J. & L. Lobmeyr, Giustini / Stagetti Roma, Gallery Libby Sellers, Established & Sons, Lexus, Krizia International, and Flos.
Whether designing for clients or exploring new material applications, Formafantasma applies the same rigorous attention to context, process, and detail, always informed by historical, political, and social forces.
Their work has been shown and published internationally. It has been acquired by major institutions, including MoMA in New York, the Victoria and Albert in London, the Metropolitan Museum in New York, the Art Institute of Chicago, Centre Pompidou in Paris, the TextielMuseum in Tilburg, the Stedelijk Museum in Amsterdam, MUDAC in Lausanne, the Mint Museum of Craft and Design in North Carolina, and the MAK in Vienna.
In March 2011, Paola Antonelli of MoMA and design critic Alice Rawsthorn listed them among the leading figures shaping the future of design.
Andrea and Simone regularly teach and lead workshops at various universities and institutions.
They teach in the ‘Well Being’ and ‘Contextual Design’ departments at Design Academy Eindhoven. Since October 2016, they have directed the Bachelor’s program in Design at the MADE Program in Siracusa, Italy.
Archiproducts Design Awards 2025: Call for Entries Now Open!
Submissions for the 2025 Archiproducts Design Awards are officially open. Brands may submit 1 to 5 products, ranging from Furniture to Lighting, Contract to Building.
To compete for the ADA 2025 Sustainability Winner title, entrants must indicate that they are competing for this category during the application process and provide the required documentation.
– Submission deadline: September 5, 2025
– Longlist announcement: October 2025
– Winners announced: November 2025