WINNERS 2005

WINNERS 2005

The inaugural INDEX:Awards were conferred in September 2005 at Copenhagen City Hall in the presence of INDEX: Patron HRH The Crown Prince of Denmark, mayors, ministers and designers from more than 35 nations.

The INDEX: jury chose five winners – in the categories Body, Home, Work, Play and Community – from 538 nominees representing 43 countries. Each winner recieved 100,000 euros, the combined 500,000 euros of the overall purse making it the largest monetary award in the world for design, a distinction the INDEX:Award for Design to Improve Life has maintained.

LIFESTRAW Body category LifeStraw™ brings clean water to people in the third world on an individual level and making people less dependent on others for safe drinking water. Read more
SOFTWALL Home category The paper (or textile) softwall dynamically partitions large open rooms and spaces into more intimate and personal surroundings of any shape. Read more
OBSERVATORIO IBEROAMERICANO Work category The Foundation designed a strategy, a network and a website focused on improving life for 40 million craftsmen in Latin America, threatened by the globalisation. Read more
APPLE iTunes, iPod Play category It is called FairPlay and it's the secret inside that iPod you love – and Apple's iTunes online system for stocking your iPod with music and other media digitally protected by special encoding. It's this giant leap forward into DRM (Digital Rights Management) that won Apple one of the first-ever INDEX:Awards. Read more
ARCHITECTURE FOR HUMANITY Community category Siyathemba incorporates the game of football into a program geared toward disseminating information on HIV/AIDS prevention and treatment and eventually as a service point for mobile health care. Read more

WINNERS 2005

LIFESTRAW

SOFTWALL

OBSERVATORIO IBEROAMERICANO

APPLE iTunes, iPod

ARCHITECTURE FOR HUMANITY

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