Bailey Rehmann is a Semi-Finalist in this year’s Steelcase Student Design Competition – NEXT
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Congratulations to Bailey Rehmann for placing as a Semi-Finalist in this fourth year of the 2016 Steelcase Student Design Competition – NEXT. The competition had almost 800 students and 65 programs participate in this year’s competition. The panel of judges independently reviewed entries over the course of a few weeks and spent a day together in Dallas to make their final decisions.
There was an anonymous judging process in which each professor submitted two submissions from their independently taught studio class via an external gmail account to a third party consultant in California. This consultant renames each entry using a random number/letter code (ie: 14N or 71SS) and then distributes submissions via Dropbox and ensures each judge receives a mix of programs to review. Judges score entries individually and then meet face to face to review. Each judge presents their pool of entries to the other judges and all judges vote after each review. This review process is inclusive of a full day of reviewing entries, voting/re-voting and debating amongst the judges to align on the five semi-finalist and five honorable mention projects against the program criteria. Once that process is complete and all judges are aligned on the final scoring, project identification codes are documented and only then are the names of the students and their corresponding programs revealed to everyone at the same time. Getting to the final selection is a tough process.
The semi-finalists will be flown to the Steelcase Headquarters in Grand Rapids, MI in February where they will present their projects to the panel of judges where an overall winner will be chosen. The winner will be announced on Friday, February 10th and the five finalists projects will be loaded onto the Steelcase website for viewing.
This year’s semi-finalists and honorable mentions:
Semi-finalists
Amy Groome | Virginia Tech University; Professor: Lisa Tucker
Bailey Rochelle Rehmann | California State University, Long Beach; Professor: Eduardo Perez
Kathleen Haines | Purdue University; Professor: Wendy Hynes
Lexi Sosalla | University of Minnesota: Professor: Tina Patel
Martina Walker | Mississippi State University; Professor: Ashley Hughes
Honorable Mentions
Brandy Hensley | University of Texas at Arlington; Professor: Hilda Rodriguez
Dominic Mercado | Texas State University; Professor: Sarah Urquhart
Hanna Green | Virginia Tech University; Professor: Lisa Tucker
Kalyn Clark | University of Oklahoma; Professor: Natalie Ellis
Kristen Lusty | Weber State University; Professor: Jacie Johnson
This year’s professional judges were:
Professional Judges (2016)
Alan Young | Gensler | Los Angeles
Carol Rickard-Brideau | Little | Washington D.C.
Georgia Rappole | Steelcase Inc. | Atlanta
Gretchen Holy | BNIM | Kansas City
Melissa Hanley | Blitz Architecture + Interiors | San Francisco
Naoko Oguro | AECOM | New York
Vanessa Bradley | Steelcase Inc. | Grand Rapids
Other programs with finalists or honorable mentions during our first four years of this competition: Academy of Art University, Cornell University, George Washington University, Humber College, Illinois State University, Iowa State University, Kansas State University, Kendall College of Art and Design, Louisiana State University, Marymount University, Maryville University, Southern Illinois University, University of Florida, and University of Manitoba.
See the Daily49er’s article here!
http://www.daily49er.com/artslife/2017/02/19/csulb-interior-design-student-places-nexts-student-design-competition/
