The first group of eco-design experts has been revealed – featuring both new and returning jurors – tasked with selecting the most sustainable products in the 10th edition of the Archiproducts Design Awards
The jury for the Archiproducts Design Awards 2025 Sustainability Award includes Zehao Liu, founder of Solaris Community; Baillie Mishler, head of PROWL Studio; and Carlo Ratti, founder of CRA | Carlo Ratti Associati and curator of the 2025 Biennale Architettura.
These renowned international figures, along with other sector experts, will evaluate the environmental strategies emerging in contemporary design for the tenth edition of the Awards.
The Awards highlight innovative approaches to sustainable design and environmental responsibility.
Only products nominated for ADA 2025 that embody a thoughtful integration of ecological practices, recycling strategies, and green transition principles will be considered.
As environmental impact takes on increasing relevance, the jury will recognize brands that use recyclable and sustainable materials with a demonstrated commitment to reducing emissions throughout the product’s entire life cycle. This is a significant moment to acknowledge those in design who are actively advancing responsible innovation.
Zehao Liu joins the ADA 2025 Sustainability Jury
Zehao Liu
Zehao Liu makes his debut on the Archiproducts Design Awards jury. He is the founder of Solaris Community and Chief Designer at Lynk & Co, where he merges his passion for sustainable design with deep expertise in product development.
Based in Gothenburg, Sweden, Liu launched Solaris Community in January 2020 – an initiative that champions circularity by reducing waste, reusing materials, and fostering sustainable innovation across sectors.
Solaris Community expresses Liu’s commitment to rethinking how products are conceived and produced, with an emphasis on environmental responsibility and long-term impact.
Baillie Mishler returns to the ADA 2025 Sustainability Jury
Baillie Mishler
American industrial designer and entrepreneur Baillie Mishler, founder of PROWL Studio, returns to the Sustainability Award jury for the fourth consecutive year.
PROWL is an industrial design studio helping brands create a regenerative future. It takes a research-based, materials-centered, and collaborative approach, working with experts from development to disposal to push beyond traditional design scopes. As a result, its work spans products, storytelling, and research across industries.
As founding designer, Mishler brings experience from companies like Steelcase and Pottery Barn, where she honed a strategic approach to product development and color-material-finish rooted in sustainability and environmental awareness.
Carlo Ratti returns to the ADA 2025 Sustainability Jury
Carlo Ratti, ph. Brendan Zhang
Carlo Ratti, a leading voice in urban innovation and the future of cities, returns for his fifth term on the Archiproducts Design Awards jury.
He is Professor of the Practice of Urban Technologies at MIT in Boston, where he directs the Senseable City Lab, and a Full Professor at the Politecnico di Milano in the Department of Architecture, Built Environment, and Construction Engineering.
He is also a founding partner of CRA-Carlo Ratti Associati, an international architecture and innovation firm, and has launched several tech startups across Europe and the US.
Ratti studied at the Politecnico di Torino and the École Nationale des Ponts et Chaussées in Paris, later completing MPhil and Ph.D. work at the University of Cambridge. He wrote his Ph.D. thesis as a Fulbright Scholar at MIT.
He is the current curator of the 2025 Architecture Biennale in Venice.
One of the ten most-cited scholars in urban planning, Ratti has co-authored over 750 academic publications. His books include Atlas of the Senseable City (Yale University Press, with Antoine Picon, 2023), Urbanità (Einaudi, 2022), and Open Source Architecture (Thames & Hudson/Einaudi, with Matthew Claudel, 2015).
His applied research spans five continents and includes partnerships with companies and local and national governments.
Recent projects from CRA include Hot Heart, a series of floating islands that store heat, and Water Batteries, a masterplan to convert a former oil refinery into a renewable energy hub in the Port of Trieste, transforming tanks into energy-storage “batteries” across 365,000 square meters of reclaimed waterfront.
Water Batteries, CRA-Carlo Ratti Associati
He has contributed op-eds to The New York Times, The Washington Post, Scientific American, Financial Times, Le Monde, and Sueddeutsche Zeitung, and has advised global institutions from the European Union to the Queensland Government.
His curatorial work includes the BMW Guggenheim Pavilion in Berlin, the Future Food District Pavilion at Expo 2015 in Milan, the 8th Bi-City Biennale of Urbanism/Architecture in Shenzhen, and Manifesta 14 Prishtina, where he served as creative mediator.
Ratti has spoken at TED (2011, 2015) and was program director at the Strelka Institute for Media, Architecture and Design in Moscow.
He currently co-chairs the World Economic Forum’s Global Future Council on Cities and Urbanization.
His work has been exhibited at venues including MoMA New York, the Venice Biennale, London’s Science Museum, Expo 2015 in Milan, and Expo 2020 in Dubai. His multidisciplinary approach—from product to building to city—has led CRA to be the only design firm to appear on TIME’s “Best Inventions of the Year” list three times (2007, 2014, 2019).
He has received numerous accolades, including a listing by Wired as one of the “50 people who will change the world” and a description by Bloomberg as the “philosopher of the sensory city.”
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