INDEX: Design Challenge

INDEX: DESIGN CHALLENGE 2010 RULES

You can download a PDF version of the rules here.

INDEX: Design Challenge, developed in close collaboration with and endorsed by UNICEF, has three subthemes, combined with an open challenge:

Improved Education Facilities can improve life in obvious ways by making school an enjoyable experience while increasing learning ability by improving attention.

Sanitation and Hygiene improve life of students with a healthier environment, thereby reducing illnesses and absences.

Gender Parity in Education should ensure that girls get the same opportunity to go to school as boys and thereby improve their lives through equal opportunities, eliminating gender disparity in education.

Open challenge should include innovative ideas for the education sector relating to the issue of equipment and supply shortages as well as inadequate facilities in low-income communities and areas affected by emergencies.

The submission deadline for INDEX: Design Challenge 2010, Designing for Education, is Friday November 26 at 12:00 midnight CET (GMT+1).

ELIGIBILITY
ο The INDEX: Design Challenge is open to faculty, students and recent graduates (graduating no earlier than 2008)
ο Teams constituting design, engineering, art, ethnography, anthropology, science and business students are encouraged to participate
ο School projects are eligible for submission
ο Work in all media can be submitted to the INDEX: Design Challenge
ο Submit only what is stipulated in the Submission Requirements section
ο We regret that we will not accept physical models/prototypes

SUBMISSION REQUIREMENTS
Projects should only be uploaded once.

Title. The name of the design. Please note that the title cannot be changed later.

Contact Information. Please provide contact information for the person who will serve as the primary contact for the project. This information will not be displayed on the website.

Credits. Please provide the full name of the participants of the project and the name of the school/institution and department.

Questions.
SOLUTION-FINDING THROUGH DESIGN
1. Please provide an overall description of the project? What are the aims
and objectives?
2. How does your design sufficiently address the current situation as described in the design brief?
THE BUSINESS OF DESIGNING FOR EDUCATION
3. Describe what ideas you have for bringing this product/service to market?
4. Who are likely to be your main stakeholders and (potential) partners?
5. How are you likely to finance this design and how are you intending
to sustain it?

Images. Upload 3 images with captions. Only landscape aspect ratio 16:9 is allowed. Only jpg/jpeg allowed. Preferred sixe 1024 pixels x 576 pixels. Maximum file size 2 MB. Please note: Entries should be able to present high-res (300 dpi) versions of the images in minimum A3 size (297 mm × 420 mm) to INDEX: upon request in either jpg/jpeg, tiff, psd or eps format.

PDF. 1 PDF maximum 5 MB. The PDF should be no longer than 4 pages and must include:
ο The selected theme of the Challenge
ο Chosen media/medium
ο 100 words outlining the project description
ο One page describing the material, surface, interface, color and coherency of the design
ο One page describing the conceptual thinking and motivation, and how the design sufficiently addresses the challenge
ο One page describing the impact or potential impact of the design proposition, and the number of people likely to be affected citations and references should be included, as well as links to articles, studies, reports or research documents.
[Please note, you are free to combine text and visuals in the above one
page descriptions]

Video. Video or presentations can be uploaded to YouTube (http://www.youtube.com) or Vimeo (http://vimeo.com) using your regular account. Paste the video link (not the embedding code) into the ‘video link’ field. Video may be no longer than 3 minutes. Please tag your video “INDEX: Design Challenge 2010.”

ADVISORY BOARD
The Advisory Board consists of Kigge Hvid (CEO, INDEX:), Jens Wittrup Willumsen (Chairman, INDEX: )and Jens Ditlev Lauritzen (Chairman, Lauritzen Foundation).

JUDGING PROCESS
Pre-Round Screening. All design submissions will be subject to a pre-round screening where each submitted design will be reviewed for completion as well as general relevance to the challenge topic. All submissions that successfully pass through the pre-round screening will move on to Round One.
The judging process includes three rounds:
Round one. The jury will evaluate submitted designs in a pre-deliberation round; this is a process that takes place online.
Round two. The jury will assemble in Copenhagen for its first meeting on December 10–12, 2010. Evaluation and validation of design concepts will take place resulting in a shortlist of designs selected as finalists.

FINALISTS
Jury-selected finalists will be notified of their status and are obligated to attend the Advisory Workshop in Copenhagen. INDEX: will cover the costs for travel and accommodation for finalists attending the workshop in Copenhagen

ADVISORY WORKSHOP
The Advisory Board will invite relevant experts and advisors (constituting the Advisory Panel) to the Advisory Workshop, which will take place in Copenhagen on February 14–15, 2011. The Advisory Panel is selected based on members’ experience and profile in social investing, social entrepreneurship and corporate leadership within the field of education.
The aim of the Advisory Workshop is to further involve and engage the selected design concepts and to create proactive and practical recommendations for realization.
Round three. A winner will be selected based on a final presentation to the jury and slated to receive the INDEX: Design Challenge prize in a ceremonial gathering.

WINNER OF INDEX: DESIGN CHALLENGE 2010
One winner will be awarded a monetary prize of €6,500 at a ceremony taking place after the Advisory Workshop.
It is at the jury’s discretion to decide against presenting the prize, or to make changes to the prize sum if the quality of the submission warrants it.

RIGHTS AND REPRODUCTION
Designs submitted to the INDEX: Design Challenge 2010 must be original and may not infringe on the rights of a third party. Designs failing these requirements will be excluded from the challenge.
The intellectual property of the designs submitted for INDEX: Design Challenge 2010 belongs to the designer/the design team. The designs will be shared on an open source basis¹ by both INDEX: and UNICEF to inspire the world to better solutions within the area of the challenge posed in the design brief. The designer(s) will be credited when the designs are shared.
If INDEX: or UNICEF, alone or through a third party or third parties, want to develop the design further, this can only happen with the agreement of the designer(s). UNICEF is not obligated to use any of the submitted designs of the INDEX: Design Challenge 2010.
By submitting work to the INDEX: Design Challenge 2010, the entrant acknowledges the right of INDEX: to use any work uploaded to www.designtoimprovelife.dk/designchallenge for reproduction in its publications; on its website; in the ensuing exhibition of the competitions’ selections; and for educational and INDEX-related promotional purposes. Television, film and video graphics may be duplicated for exhibition purposes and for inclusion in the INDEX: Design Challenge archives.

NOMINATION FEE
No fee of any kind is required.

ANY QUESTIONS?
For further information contact Liza Chong, lc at indexaward dot dk

¹ ‘open source basis’ is understood as a sharing of ideas to which participants to INDEX: Design Challenge 2010 and/or bearer of such ideas, consent in advance and participate in an open forum only for the purposes of the INDEX: Design Challenge 2010. Open forum is understood as the duration of the INDEX: Design Challenge 2010.