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yoda
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| 11/11/2008 6:01 PM |
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http://www.indexaward.dk
INDEX: AWARD is the largest monetary design award in the world and is presented every two years in Copenhagen. An award is given in five categories, and INDEX: awards the winner in each category with a prize of €100 000.
INDEX: AWARD does not categorize design according to traditional labels - visual design, apparel and industrial design - since these categories do not fully reflect the interdisciplinary approach employed in most interesting modern design. INDEX: asks that the nomination bodies think horizontally, across design categories and industries, when selecting their nominees for the five categories vital to human life; BODY, HOME, WORK, PLAY and COMMUNITY.
The winning designs are chosen by an international jury consisting of leading designers, design researchers, design writers and design thinkers from Europe, Asia and the U.S. All jury members have a great deal of professional experience from broad areas of the design industry and wide ranging experience from other internationally recognized juries.
Also, the focus on Design to Improve Life differentiates INDEX: AWARD from other design awards, as design is evaluated in a much broader sense than traditionally, focusing not only on form, but also on the context of the design, e.g. ethical and cultural considerations, and impact, including the number of people affected, sustainability and level of innovation.
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yoda
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| 11/11/2008 6:02 PM |
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International design awards are generally assessing design only according to form.
INDEX: on the other hand – because of our focus on design to Improve Life - assesses design also according to its impact and its context. We do this to highlight the true potential of design and the broader scope of the design discipline.
When assessing design, INDEX: uses three parameters:
1. FORM
The parameter Form deals with the formal aspects of design, e.g. what you can feel, touch and see. When Form is assessed INDEX: looks into shape, material, color, consistence, interface, aesthetics, etc.
Beyond this parameter, which INDEX: shares with other design awards, INDEX: further assesses design on two other parameters.
2. IMPACT
The parameter IMPACT deals with the impact of the design, e.g. the design’s dynamic and positive contribution to the world.
When IMPACT is assessed INDEX: looks into relevance, function, potential distribution, level of innovation, economy, sustainability, user-friendliness, the scope of the solution etc.
3. CONTEXT
The parameter CONTEXT deals with the context the design addresses and is supposed to function in.
The CONTEXT includes the problem addressed by the design and accounts for the number of people affected by the problem, the level of urgency, the culture, geography, infrastructure, ethics of the community etc.
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yoda
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| 11/11/2008 6:03 PM |
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On August 24, 2007 the winning designs in the five INDEX: categories received the world's biggest design award of 100 000 € each.
BODY
Mobility for Each One (Sébastien Dubois)
Approximately 25 000 people, mostly civilians, are mutilated by landmines each year. Hundred of thousands of victims all over the world need proper prosthetic products in order to resume an active life. Unfortunately, a quality prosthesis usually costs between 1300 and 4000 US Dollars, which many do not have the economic means to afford.
Canadian designer Sébastien Dubois has designed a low-cost, high-quality model that can be locally produced for only 8 US Dollars. In order to keep production costs down, “Mobility for Each One” can be produced in any conventional workshop, and the materials needed are easily available. The prosthetic foot can be fitted to various types of upper leg prosthetics and is developed especially to fit the standards of Red Cross.
HOME
Solar Bottle (Alberto Meda & Francisco Gomez Paz)
One sixth of the world's population has no access to safe drinking water, increasing their risk of waterborne diseases such as diarrhea, cholera, typhoid fever, Hepatitis A and dysentery.
When attending an exhibition under the theme “H2O” at Milan's International Furniture Fair, Meda and Paz learned about the SODIS system, a simple, low-cost solution for treating drinking water at a household level. Contaminated water is filled into transparent plastic bottles. When exposed to full sunlight for six hours, the pathogens in the water are destroyed.
Meda and Paz decided to design a container that brings the best out of the SODIS system, and the result is Solar Bottle, which has one transparent face for UV-A + infrared rays collection and one aluminium color to increase the reflections. The high ratio surface/thickness of the low cost four liter container improves the performance of solar disinfection and its flat shape makes it stackable and facilitates storage. A handle makes it possible to regulate the angle for best solar exposition and ensures easy transportation.
WORK
Tongue Sucker (Philip Greer, Lisa Stroux, Graeme Davies & Chris Huntley)
The London terrorist bombings in July 2005 were an eye opener for four industrial design engineers from the Imperial College and the Royal College of Art in the UK. From emergency services, Graeme Davies, Phillip Greer, Christopher Huntley and Lisa Stroux learned that any delay in the arrival of paramedics was critical. An unconscious persons tongue will fall to the back of the throat, blocking the airway, and without an adequate airway, an unconscious person will die or suffer severe brain damage within 4 minutes.
The Tongue Sucker is basically a small plastic chamber with a bright colored bulb-like air reservoir, which allows untrained bystanders at the scene of an accident to open the airway of an unconscious person immediately and effectively. Squeeze the bulb, place it over the tongue of the injured person and release. Suction draws the tongue off the back of the throat, creating a small but vital gap to allow the unconscious person to breathe. Once in place, the first aider is free to perform CPR, call for help or assist other casualties. In addition, the brightly colored bulb signals to arriving paramedics which casualties have been treated.
PLAY
Tesla Roadster (Elon Musk, Chairman of Tesla Motors, Tesla CEO Martin Eberhard and Barney Hatt, principal stylist at Lotus Design Studio)
The Tesla Roadster is a 100% electric vehicle, with zero emissions and zero-to-sixty acceleration in four seconds. The Roadster is the first production electric vehicle to incorporate a 200+ mile range per charge, and with a fuel efficiency equivalent of 135 miles per gallon and gorgeous styling, the Tesla Roadster proves that electric cars can be cool and fun to drive. The battery recharges in three and a half hours, which might raise your electricity bill, but because of its mileage, driving the Roadster actually costs only about one cent per mile.
Normally a new car brand penetrates the market at a mid-level price, affordable for the many. However, to rid electricity powered cars of their golf cart reputation and make them objects of desire, the stylish 100 % electricity powered sports car Tesla Roadster targets the high-end market. The plan is to leverage the Tesla Roadster‘s technology, resulting in a less expensive sports sedan that can be sold by 2010 at higher volume, upping the environmental impact.
COMMUNITY
OLPC XO (Team including Rebecca Allen, Christopher Blizzard, V. Michael Bove, Yves Behar/fuseproject, Walter Bender, Michail Bletsas, Mark Foster, Jacques Gagne, Mary Lou Jepsen, Nicholas Negroponte and Lisa Strausfeld)
99 % of children in developing countries leave school without having touched a computer.
Without a computer-literate population, developing countries will continue to struggle to compete in a rapidly evolving, global information economy.
The XO Laptop is about the size of a textbook and lighter than a lunchbox, making it easy for children to carry. XO is designed to be used in parts of the world where many classes are taught outside, and therefore it is sunlight-readable as well as shock and moisture resistant. In order for students to interact, a mobile ad-hoc network allows many machines to gain internet access from one connection and a maze-network connects all the laptops within reach. The XO can be hand-powered and comes with at least two of three options: A crank, a pedal, or a pull-cord. Plus, it features enhanced battery management for an extended recharge-cycle lifetime.
People's Choice Award
The People's Choice Award is presented on the basis of votes cast by the audience of INDEX: AWARD EXHIBITION and the readers of the Danish newspaper Politiken.
Winner of the 2007 People's Choice Award:
Antivirus – a cap to protect against needle infections (Denmark)
Designed by Hân Pham
The designer of Antivirus – a cap to protect was inspired by her own experience as a young girl in a Singaporean refugee camp, where she received a vaccination with an infectious needle, making her sick for a long time.
The cap is mounted on readily available beverage cans for segregation and isolation of used needles which are secured inside the permanently sealed can, preventing re-use of needles. The design embodies an element of sustainability in that it uses a waste product available even in low income.
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yoda
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| 11/11/2008 6:10 PM |
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INDEX: JURY PANEL
Nille Juul-Sorensen, jury chairman
Associate Director, Arup
Nille Juul-Sorensen is the Associate Director of Arup, the world's largest engineering company. Currently operating out of 73 offices in 32 countries, with 7000 members of staff, Arup consists of a number of inter-related practices.
Nille is an architect from the Royal Academy of Fine Arts, Copenhagen.
Nille was Partner in KHR 1995-2004
He has received the “Eckersberg Medalie“ (Equal to the English RIBA Gold Medal)
Some of his key projects are:
Copenhagen Metro phase 1, 2, 3 and 4
In charge of the design and architecture for all stations on the new Copenhagen Metro. 10 deep stations and 8
stations above ground. Design for all components on the Metro.
Malmo City Tunnel
Architect and designer for the two major stations in Malmo, Sweden
Kolsåsbanen, Oslo, Norway
Conceptual design for a new tram line in Oslo, Norway
Flintholm Station
Orestad Station
High-speed train station, Copenhagen
DK: Collage of Design, Denmark
Global Biodiversity Int. Foundation: Responsible for new college building in Copenhagen
Competitions:
High-speed Train Station, Naples, Italy'
1st prize for ATC Tower in Copenhagen Airport
1st prize Biotech Centre in the University Park in Copenhagen
DK: Design School in Kolding. 1st prize in international competition
Arnold S. Wasserman, jury vice-chairman
Chairman of The Idea Factory, Singapore
He has held the positions of Vice President of Corporate Industrial Design/Human Factors at NCR, Xerox Parc, and the Unisys Corporation. He has also been Principal of Pratt Institute's School of Design; Senior Fellow for Design Strategy at IDEO; and Director of Design for the Raymond Loewy design office in Paris, and he teaches at Haas Graduate School of Business, University of California, Berkeley.
Arnold is a pioneer in the practice of user-centred, multidisciplinary product development as a competitive business strategy.
Arnold, who lives in both Singapore and San Francisco, is currently deeply involved in planning a whole new strategy for Singapore.
http://www.ideafactory.com
Paola Antonelli
Curator of design and architecture, Museum of Modern Art, New York
Paola Antonelli joined the Museum of Modern Art in 1994 and is a curator at the Department of Architecture and Design.
Her first acclaimed exhibition at MoMA, Mutant Materials in Contemporary Design (1995), was followed by Thresholds: Contemporary Design from the Netherlands (1996), Achille Castiglioni: Design! (1997- 98), and projects 66: Campana / Ingo Maurer (1999), Open Ends and Matter (September 2000 / February 2001).
Her most recent exhibition, Workspheres (2/8 - 4/22/2001), was devoted to workplace design of the near future.
She holds an MA in architecture, graduating from the Polytechnic of Milan in 1990. Paola Antonelli has curated several architectural and design exhibitions in Italy, France, and Japan. She has been a contributing editor of Domus (1987-91) and the Design Editor of Abitare (1992-94).
She has also contributed articles to several publications, among them Metropolis, The Harvard Design Review, I.D. magazine, Paper, Metropolitan, Home, Harper's Bazaar and Nest.
Between 1991 and 1993, Paola Antonelli was assistant professor at the University of California, Los Angeles, where she taught design history and theory. She has lectured on design and architecture in Europe and the US and has served on several international architecture and design juries.
Paola Antonelli, whose goal is to make design the most loved, understood, and celebrated discipline of the 21st century, is currently working on a book about food from all over the world as examples of outstanding design, and apart from seeking to have a Boeing 747 included in the MoMA collection she is also working on an exhibition entitled Emergency.
http://www.moma.org
Ged Davis
Co-president of Global Energy Assessment and Co-founder of Stratage.
As of March 2007, Ged Davis is co-president of Global Energy Assessment, a major initiative seeking to redefine the global energy policy agenda.
Prior to this position, Ged was Managing Director of the World Economic Forum's new Centre for Strategic Insight, where he was responsible for research and Future Global Scenarios covering the fields of geopolitics, economics, climate change, energy and development. He was also shaping the annual WEF meeting at Davos, which brings together 2,000 corporate, government, and nonprofit leaders to discuss global challenges.
Before heading the Centre for Strategic Insight, Ged spent 30 years with Royal Dutch/Shell, which he joined in 1972. Most recently, he was the vice president of global business environment for Shell International in London. He also served as head of Shell's scenarios team, which developed global scenarios every three or four years to inform Shell strategy and provoke broader debate on global energy and social issues. He also held various technical, business development, and management roles for Shell companies around the world.
Ged is a member of the Board of Governors of the International Development Research Centre in Ottawa and the director of UNAIDS's AIDS in Africa scenario project. He has led four global scenario projects in recent years, including Shell's global scenarios and a multi-year, multi-stakeholder look at sustainability for the World Business Council.
Ged is an economist and engineer by training. He holds an undergraduate degree in mining engineering from Imperial College, London, and postgraduate degrees in economics and engineering from the London School of Economics and Stanford University.
Hella Jongerius
Designer and CEO of JongeriusLab in The Netherlands.
1963: Born in De Meern, Netherlands
1988 - 1993: Study at Academy for Industrial Design, Eindhoven
2000: Starting with the company-name JongeriusLab
Projects:
Current
IKEA Sweden; products design for PS collection 2005
Cooper-Hewitt Museum, New York; curator collection show 2005
Evian, Paris; design for pet bottles
Maharam, New York; design for upholstery
Nymphenburg, Germany; new design for collection
Spaarne hospital, Amsterdam; design for curtains and bedding
Gift for all delegation members during Netherlands presidency of EU top in commission of Dutch Ministry of OC&W
2003
Mirror plate, commissioned by Didier Krzentowski, galerie Kreo, Paris
40 (different) colored vases like the red/white vase for exhibition in Design Museum, London,
july 2003
T-set: porcelain, produced by Koninklijke Tichelaar, Makkum Soup-set: porcelain, produced by Koninklijke Tichelaar, Makkum
Exhibitions: (selection)
2004
presentation ‘createur de l'annee 2004' on salon du meuble, Paris
2003
‘Desir d'objets', Musee departemental d'art contemporain, Rochechouart and in Grand Hornu, Hornu, Belgium
‘Hella Jongerius', The Design Museum, London, solo
‘Reality machines', Nai (dutch architecture institute), Rotterdam
‘Ontstaan der dingen', Museum Boymans van Beuningen, Rotterdam
‘Armour', Fort asperen, Acquoy
Museum collections: FRAC France, felt stool, kasese chair, embroidered tablecloth, pushed washtub, soft urns- natural/pink
FNAC France, 3x long neck and groove bottles, big white pot
Museum of Art and Design, New York: Souvenir delfts b-set
Musee d'Art Contemporain, Rochechouart: Red/white vase, big white pot
Museum Het Kruithuis, Den Bosch: Delft b-set, Souvenir db-set
Centraal Museum, Utrecht: Long neck and Groove bottles
Museum Boymans van Beuningen, Rotterdam; Powerpatch, Weekly Dinner
Stedelijk Museum Amsterdam: Candle holder
Museum of Modern Art, New York: Powerpatch, Weekly Dinner
Publications: (selection)
2004
Christelle Meplon, ‘De esthetica van de productiefout, ontwerpen van Hella Jongerius', Ons erfdeel, febr. 2004, p.109-111
‘Dutch design' van de 20ste eeuw, uitgeverij TOTH, p. 113,114
‘Objects of desire' , a collection of contemporary vases, ex. cat., Musee d'art contemporain, Rochechouart.
‘Hella Jongerius: creatrice de l' annee 2004', Le Figaro, jan. 9, 2004
Karen Hamerlynck, ‘Internationale allure uit Rotterdam', Algemeen dagblad, jan.17, 2004
Carla Carbone, ‘Hella Jongerius', Arq./a, jan., febr. 2004, p.74-77
Awards:
2004
Createur de l'annee 2004, France
2003
Rotterdam Design Prize (Repeat) 2002
Elle Decoration Award 2002 (Repeat)
Best product Award, Neo Con Chicago (Dot Repeat)
2000
Nominations for the Rotterdam Design Prize (Embroidered Tablecloth, Long Neck & Groove Botles)
AVA Ceramics Award, Dutch Ceramics Industry Award (Groove & Long Neck Bottles)
Pontus Wahlgren
Senior Industrial Designer, IDEO, London
Pontus Wahlgren is a Senior Industrial Designer at IDEO Product Development in London.
Since joining IDEO in 1998, Wahlgren has worked on and managed a wide range of projects, including design strategy, computers, digital cameras, telecommunication devices, tradeshow exhibits, peripherals, beauty products, eyewear, chocolate and future-vision concept products and services, in collaboration with clients such as Eastman, Logitech, HP, Microsoft, NEC, Pepsi, Procter & Gamble, and Kodak. He holds office in San Francisco and Tokyo.
Prior to joining IDEO, he was assigned on contract to Nike Retail Services in Beaverton, Oregon. He has also worked at No Picnic Industrial Design in Stockholm and at Seymour Powell in London.
His work has been recognized with 3 IDEA/Business Week Awards – two gold and one bronze.
Wahlgren has lectured at colleges and institutions in San Francisco, London and at the PARC in Palo Alto, California.
His work has been published in various magazines, such as Business Week, Beaux Arts, Domus, Design Report, DDN, Frame, GQ, I.D., Intramurous, Newsweek, Surface and Wired, and his work has been exhibited in London, Milan, New York, San Francisco and Verona.
Wahlgren is also a founding member of designRAW, an international collective of industrial design professionals. designRaw was founded as a forum for members to explore design issues outside their professional activities. The intent is to educate the public in design issues through installations that are both fun and informative.
Wahlgren received his design education at the Art Centre College of Design in Switzerland and Pasadena (California) where he graduated with a BA in Industrial Design. Wahlgren conducted undergraduate studies at l'Atelier de Sevres in Paris, France. He pursued postgraduate studies at the Design Department of the Konstfack University College of Arts, Crafts and Design in Stockholm, Sweden.
John Heskett
Chair Professor of Design, The Hong Kong Polytechnic University
John Heskett is Chair Professor of Design at the School of Design, Hong Kong Polytechnic University, a post he took up in July of last year after fifteen years as Professor of Design at the Institute of Design, Illinois Institute of Technology in Chicago.
He is the author of Industrial Design, (1980), widely used as a basic textbook on design courses in many countries and subsequently translated into several languages; German Design 1870-1918, (1987); and Philips: A Study in Corporate Design (1989). His most recent book is Toothpicks and Logos: Design in Everyday Life, published by Oxford University Press in 2002. He also contributes articles, essays and reviews to numerous magazines, anthologies and catalogues. He is currently working on a major history of design for Phaidon Press and editing a two-volume Encyclopaedia of Industrial Design.
His current research is focussed on the theme of how design creates (and not just adds) economic value, with particular emphasis on industry in the Pearl River Delta of China, and the role of this in Design Policy in governments and corporations. Other areas of teaching include the relationship between design and innovation, the problems of successfully changing the nature of markets, and the problems of designing for global markets.
Hael Kobayashi
Digital Entertainment Executive
Hael Kobayashi is an international and award winning professional with over 30 years experience in film, digital media, broadcast, and the visual and performing arts. As a pioneer in the field of digital media, Kobayashi has served as a senior executive and producer for some of the world's leading film and entertainment studios. Most recently, he was Group Head of Production and Associate Producer on the digitally animated feature film “Happy Feet” for Australia's Animal Logic. Kobayashi previously held the position of Director of Digital Artists Production for Lucasfilm's Industrial Light + Magic, served in several production management roles at PDI/DreamWorks, and was the Entertainment and Science Bureau Chief for MSNBC/ZDTV, which pioneered the use of online communication in conjunction with simultaneous broadcast.
Within the digital games industry, Kobayashi served as a producer for Raya Systems, overseeing content development, art direction, and image development. The games were designed to teach young people health awareness and prevention, and were endorsed by the American Pediatrics Association and AMFAR, the American Foundation for AIDS Research.
An active industry advocate and champion for digital media development, training and education, Kobayashi is the co-founder of the Presidential Scholars in the Arts' film and video program in the USA. He has lectured extensively on the disciplines of digital visual effects and animation in Canada, the USA, Australia and the United Kingdom. Kobayashi has served as a team member for creating strategies to develop digital media as part of sustainable, economic growth for several regions in the world, including the USA and Singapore. Most recently, he served on the federal and state task forces for Australia's Digital Content Industry Action Agenda, covering the fields of architecture, design, entertainment and science.
Ravi Naidoo
Managing director, Interactive Africa
Ravi Naidoo is the founder and managing director of Interactive Africa, a Cape Town based media and marketing company.
Ravi completed his MBA degree at University of Cape Town in 1994, where he was nominated as the Nedbank MBA Student of the Year. Ravi also has a B.Sc. (Hons) degree in Physiology from UCT.Besides the three years as an Account Director at Young and Rubicam (90-93), where Ravi managed a few multinational accounts, his main business focus has always been on media, marketing and project management.
In 1994, Ravi founded Interactive Africa. One of the company's more recent projects has been project managing the First African in Space Mission and marketing of South Africa's Bid to host the 2010 Football World Cup, as well as for the 2006 campaign. He also directed the African Connection Rally – the trip from the northern to the southern tip of Africa in April 1999, which promoted telecommunications investment in Africa.
Ravi is the co-founder of CITI, the Cape IT Initiative, a non-profit company is dedicated to promoting the IT cluster in the Western Cape. He also founded the International Design Indaba, a leading design institution, that's best known for its flagship conference and expo held in Cape Town annually. He also consulted to the Melbourne 2006 Commonwealth Games company, and assisted in their successful campaign.
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