Feel Planet Earth 08 - Cifial Design Award
This Award is organized with the aim of promoting design, both as a culture, and as a tool, capable of proposing innovative solutions to man's approach to his social and natural environment. The object of this contest is to promote the exchange of ideas and spread the values of design, offering new approaches to tasks products and services, visualizing, interpreting technologies, etc.
| Category | Other Competition |
| Type | International, Award, Open, Two-Stage |
| Genre | Design-Science, Sustainability |
| Country | Portugal |
| RegDeadline | 31 December 2008 GoogleCal iCal |
| 31 December 2008 (via Online) | |
| Eligibility | Designers or multi-disciplinary teams, Students (the final year of any high Education Design Course) |
| Target Field | Any Design work, presenting clear contributions to the identified theme |
Description
“The best way to predict the future is to design it”
Buckminster Fuller
The theme for the 2008 edition is the search for alternatives to the current dependence on non-renewable energy sources. In order to change the current human, political, strategic and environmental implications of present consumption rates, as well as to ensure greater social equality and sustainability, new goods and services with lower impacts should be proposed and implemented. Design can, and should, give an important contribution to this area, by proposing new approaches and solutions. This award is intended to distinguish innovative projects dealing with this concern.
Any design work on this issue, whether a vehicle, a public transport service, a cooking device or a lighting system, a water pump or any other practical or theoretical contribution, as well as a synopsis from an MsC or PhD dissertation, can be proposed.
Jury
The composition of the Jury will be announced at www.feeltheplanetearth.org before October 31, 2008.
Prize
EUR 25.000,00 total
Entry Fee
None
Entries
PDF files
Timetable
Announcement of the Phase 1 results: until February 15, 2009
Submission of Candidatures: Phase 2 upload: from February 15, 2009 until March 15, 2009
Announcement of Phase 2 results: until April 30, 2009
Public Award Ceremony: date to be scheduled (before July 31, 2009)
Organizer
CIFIAL
Official Website
http://www.feeltheplanetearth.org/