 16.05.12 BeyondRisør tickets on sale now! BeyondRisør in collaboration with INDEX: Design to Improve Life® has opened its ticket sale for a two-day conference focusing on Design to Improve Life. The conference is taking place in INDEX: Partner City Risør,...Read more |
 15.05.12 INDEX:'s Liza Chong on jury duty in Huddersfield today INDEX:'s Strategy and Development Director Liza Chong is enjoying the day in Huddersfield, England, where she is part of the jury for the 24-Hour Design Challenge at the University of Huddersfield. The theme...Read more |
 14.05.12 Rewarding tourists for bringing goods to local non-profits What if you could design a system, where travelers could bring stuff that is really needed in a particular region. A region that the traveler already planned to visit... Well, that system has already been created, and now...Read more |
 12.05.12 How do we get our children to design for the future? How do we actively include and engage our children, youth and school in designing better solutions for the challenges of the future? That is a pretty big question, and we do not pretend to have the answer, BUT we are hosting...Read more |
 11.05.12 Are planes powered by trash the future? Have you ever really thought about what you are throwing away with your trash? Andy Pag has. The modern-day Lindbergh is attempting to show us the power of a new kind of fuel by flying the length of England using only garbage...Read more |
 10.05.12 INDEX: Award 2011 Exhibition opening in Helsinki today Today is the big day where the INDEX: Award 2011 Exhibition is opening in Helsinki - The World Design Capital of 2012! The exhibition is opened at noon today by the Danish Ambassador in Helsinki, Jens-Otto Horslund, and will...Read more |
 10.05.12 INDEX: CEO opens Dutch Design Conference Although our beloved CEO Kigge Hvid is in Helsinki today to attend the opening ceremony of the INDEX: Award 2011 Exhibition, it does not stop her from being two places at once. This morning at 9.40am she opened the Dutch conference...Read more |
 09.05.12 INDEX: Award Winner continues its success story INDEX: Award 2011 Winner Design for Change has just sent us an update on what they have been up to lately, and we thought we would share it with everyone as we are so proud of how they continue to help others and spread their...Read more |
 08.05.12 INDEX: and WDC Helsinki 2012 get-together last night Yesterday evening, INDEX: Design to Improve Life® was invited to co-host a reception at the Finnish Ambassador's Residency along side Ambassador Maarit Jalava and our Partner City, World Design Capital Helsinki...Read more |
 07.05.12 The "Innovation Machine" - is it artificial intelligence? In Western Denmark, a large-scale creative project aimed at improving health and welfare is brewing. The region's entrepreneurs and decision makers have realized that something radical needs to be done if things like unemployment,...Read more |
 06.05.12 INDEX: education seminar in Rørvig Last week the INDEX: Design to Improve Life® team went to the beautiful town of Rørvig in northern Zealand, Denmark to try out first hand the tools and methods Scandinavian teachers and students are taught in...Read more |
 03.05.12 Copenhagen hosts world's biggest sustainable fashion summit Hosting the world's largest conference on sustainability and fashion - Copenhagen Fashion Summit - the city of Copenhagen continues to set the global agenda on environmental, social and economically sustainable solutions....Read more |
 30.04.12 Shopping cart to help you make smarter choices! Obesity and malnutrition are two of the worlds biggest killers, which is why every attempt to fight them should be welcomed with arms open. Whether it be large or small scale, every initiative to help consumers make better...Read more |
 29.04.12 The "blackest" solar cells ever made Scientists have created what is now the "blackest" solar cell to date. While that might sound as trivial as creating a white iPhone, this is a fairly huge advancement in the world of solar technology. With an average reflectance...Read more |
 27.04.12 Breakfast is good for you. Now a proven fact! We love seeing big data turned into Design to Improve Life. In this case, thousands of people's eating habits were investigated to reveal the fact that if you skip breakfast you are going to eat more unhealthy food the rest...Read more |