Com­pas­so d’Oro

Since 1956, ADI has brought togeth­er design­ers, com­pa­nies, researchers, teach­ers, crit­ics, and  jour­nal­ists around design top­ics: project, con­sump­tion, recy­cling, and edu­ca­tion. It plays a key role in the devel­op­ment of indus­tri­al design as both a cul­tur­al and eco­nom­ic phe­nom­e­non and serves as the pri­ma­ry liai­son for pro­mot­ing the design sys­tem to gov­ern­men­tal institutions.

The ADI sys­tem aims to pro­mote and help imple­ment, with­out any prof­it motive, the most appro­pri­ate con­di­tions for design­ing goods and ser­vices through cul­tur­al debate, insti­tu­tion­al engage­ment, and the pro­vi­sion of ser­vices. Since 1958, it has man­aged the Com­pas­so d’Oro Award, the old­est Euro­pean design award, con­ceived in 1954 by Gio Pon­ti, which cel­e­brat­ed its 70th anniver­sary in 2024.

Since 2014, ADI – Asso­ci­a­tion for Indus­tri­al Design has estab­lished the Com­pas­so d’Oro Inter­na­tion­al Award, launch­ing a series of themed edi­tions open to inter­na­tion­al par­tic­i­pa­tion. Each edi­tion is ded­i­cat­ed to a spe­cif­ic theme, aimed at explor­ing emerg­ing and sig­nif­i­cant aspects of design in its con­tin­u­ous evolution.

For Expo 2025 Osa­ka, ADI, in col­lab­o­ra­tion with the Gen­er­al Com­mis­sion­er for Italy at Expo 2025 Osa­ka, is launch­ing a new edi­tion of the Com­pas­so d’Oro Inter­na­tion­al Award, inspired by the theme of the World Expo­si­tion: “Design­ing Future Soci­ety for Our Lives”.

“Design­ing Future Soci­ety for our Lives”

A theme aimed at guid­ing the inter­na­tion­al community’s par­tic­i­pa­tion in design­ing a sus­tain­able soci­ety, encour­ag­ing indi­vid­u­als to express their ideas about how they envi­sion living.
The theme is divid­ed into three subcategories:

• Sav­ing lives: Pro­tect­ing and sav­ing indi­vid­u­als’ lives.
• Empow­er­ing lives: Enrich­ing indi­vid­u­als’ lives and expand­ing their potential.
• Con­nect­ing lives: Con­nect­ing indi­vid­u­als’ lives to build com­mu­ni­ties and enrich society.

Only com­pa­nies and design­ers from the nations par­tic­i­pat­ing in Expo 2025 Osa­ka are eli­gi­ble to par­tic­i­pate, with prod­ucts and ser­vices that have been effec­tive­ly launched on the market.
Mar­ket launch peri­od: from Jan­u­ary 1, 2020, to Decem­ber 31, 2024. Prod­ucts that con­tribute to the enhance­ment of the Expo theme will be eval­u­at­ed with­in the fol­low­ing 8 the­mat­ic categories:

• Design for living
• Design for lighting
• Design for mobility
• Design for work
• Design for the individual
• Food Design
• Ser­vice and Social design
• Design for communication

Appli­ca­tions must be sub­mit­ted by com­plet­ing an online form on the website:
www.compassodorointernational.com
Appli­ca­tions open on Sep­tem­ber 16, 2024, and will close on March 10, 2025. Par­tic­i­pa­tion fee: €1,000 per prod­uct or ser­vice entered
No addi­tion­al costs will be required.
The offi­cial lan­guage of the award is English.

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