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Announcing the Outstanding Works of the 11th Kids Design Award!
The Kids Design Council held the announcement and award ceremony for the 11th Kids Design Awards on September 25 at Academy Hills 49 in Roppongi Hills. This year's Kids Design Awards selected 298 winning entries. In the final judging, the Grand Prize "Prime Minister's Award" and 34 other outstanding works were honored.
The Kids Design Award recognizes outstanding products, spaces, services, and research activities that contribute to children's safety, security, and healthy growth and development.
The Prime Minister's Award, the highest honor, was awarded to Seibu Railway and Kawasaki Heavy Industries for their "Seibu Railway New Commuter Train Series 40000." The award recognized their efforts to address the social challenges of childcare and mobility, including the design of spaces for placing strollers and window heights allowing children to see the scenery outside.
DENTSU SOKEN INC. Active Learning "How About This?" Research Institute received the Encouragement Award (Kids Design Council Chairman's Award) for its "Active Learning: How About This? 6-Country Education Comparison Column." This column, published in Web Dentsu Inc. News, vividly illustrated the educational differences across the UK, France, the US, Canada, Japan, and Russia—countries where Kirillova Nadezhda, originally from the former Soviet Union, lived due to her parents' job transfers. It was well-received. The column was recognized for highlighting how the diversity of active learning already practiced worldwide inspires educators to pursue new initiatives.
The main awards are as follows.
●Grand Prize (Prime Minister's Award): Seibu Railway's New 40000 Series Commuter Train (Seibu Railway, Kawasaki Heavy Industries)
● Excellence Award, Minister of Economy, Trade and Industry Award: Pediatric Online (Kids Public)
●Excellence Award, Minister of Economy, Trade and Industry Award: Safety and Security Initiatives in Sekisui House Condominiums (Sekisui House)
●Excellence Award, Minister of Economy, Trade and Industry Award: Optical Illusion Block Workshop (Optical Illusion Block Workshop Group)
●Excellence Award, Minister of Economy, Trade and Industry Award: Kojima Children's Center (Kojima Welfare Association Kojima Children's Center, M-Archi)
●Excellence Award, Minister of Consumer Affairs Award: Children of Japan and the World Create Together. "World! Animal Environment Conference" (World! Animal Environment Conference Project)
●Excellence Award, Minister in Charge of Declining Birthrate Countermeasures: Mother and Child Health Handbook App (Himawari no Kai, NTT DOCOMO, Hakuhodo DY Media Partners)
●Excellence Award - Minister in Charge of Declining Birthrate Countermeasures: JOHNSON TOWN (Isono Shokai, Watanabe Osamu Architects & Urban Designers)
●Excellence Award, Minister for Gender Equality Award: Mommy's Project (Misawa Homes)
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