The ED (Eindhoven Dagblad) newspaper published an article about winning the Manifestations Young Talent Award during Dutch Design Week 2025.

The English translation of the article is as follows:

Laura A Dima has won the Young Talent Award. Each edition of Manifestations comes with this award, offered to one of the participants. She graduated from the Royal Academy of Art in The Hague. The jury on this work:

“An interactive installation in which two people experience each other’s heartbeat, breathing, and temperature through responsive, wearable sculptures. Intimacy arises precisely through separation. An intermediary for human emotions. Yet another machine between people? The jury was a little apprehensive but was overwhelmed by Dima’s work. Her sculpture feels surprisingly human: like a warm baby in your arms, something you want to cherish and care for. Meanwhile, you sense ‘the other,’ whether that’s pleasant or unpleasant. Do we need an intermediary sculpture to still feel and experience each other? In times of far-reaching individualisation and polarisation, this is a pressing question, one that could not have been tangibly depicted in a better and more creative way. For Dima, metaforms are not metaphors but a channel for a serious story and issue. Moreover, the jury gives extra praise for the technical and visual execution.”