Awards Ceremony

MATAROA Design Award

The MATAROA Design Awards ceremony was held on June 9^th 2023, opening up and exploring a new artistic field in the MATAROA project’s activity and extroversion.

Awards Ceremony

The MATAROA Design Awards ceremony was held on June 9^th 2023, opening up and exploring a new artistic field in the MATAROA project’s activity and extroversion. Members, partners and friends of the Cultural Society and Thessaloniki Design Week 2023 including the Mayor of Thessaloniki, awarded the prizes to the winners of the open call procedure.

Focusing on the relationship between design and gastronomy, the new MATAROA awards were addressed to the community of designers and artists, who submitted their ideas and proposals on the themes of “Designing the restaurant of the future” & “Smart and innovative food concepts”. The aim of this initiative, as all MATAROA awards, is to reinforce the community of young designers and promoting their work on the international scene through the MATAROA platform.

As Vicky Papadimitriou, Director of the Cultural Society and coordinator of MATAROA project, states, “The MATAROA Awards initiative is the axis of the project that gives us the opportunity to support young artists, brings us in direct contact with them, and makes us aware of their potential and perspective. After visual arts and photography, the Cultural Society establishes the MATAROA Awards in Design, and in collaboration with Thessaloniki Design Week, supports the work of 9 award-winning artists, and presents – through the exhibition hosted by the organization – 20 innovative ideas that combine Design with Gastronomy. We ourselves realize the value of this awards initiative through the artists’ own words, which gives us even more motivation to continue and expand our activity in this direction”.

The MATAROA project continues to fulfill its vision and activity with renewed ideas that include more and more communities of Greek artists, constituting a platform with a wide vision that opens up a dialogue.

Awards

The awards in the category “Designing the restaurant of the future” were received by:

Angelos Zigos & Marios Gerontas (1st place | Open Kitchen)
Christina Antzoulatou & Nadia Nika (2nd place | WASTELANDS: Landscapes of Food Metabolism )
Evangelos Mitsianis (3rd place | The Cyclus)

For the category “Smart and innovative food concepts” the winners are the following:

Georgios Bosnas (1st place | MICELL – An alternative to plastic & sustainable packaging)
Nikolaos Chandolias (2nd place | Bread Patterns)
Ioanna Ziouta (3rd place | Seed – Highlighting the value of seeds).