With great Proud,we announce that WASARA is one of the 60 finalists for the world famous INDEX: Award 2011
The finalists have been carefully selected by the international INDEX: Jury as the best of the best Design to Improve Life. As a whole, the finalist group offers unique proof of the wide reach and huge potential of Design to Improve Life in terms of challenges addressed, solutions created and people affected.
The INDEX Award website
The INDEX WASARA description
INDEX: Award is the world's largest monetary prize for design. What
sets the INDEX: Award apart from other design awards is its focus on
"Design to Improve Life". INDEX: is looking for designs that target and
solve the challenges and problems of human life.
INDEX: Award is
split into five categories: Body, Home, Work, Play and Community. One
prize worth 100,000 Euros will be presented to the winner in each
category. The five categories represent the entire human life, and each
category calls for entries from very different design fields.
WASARA is finalist in the Home category.
From
September, 2010 to January 6, 2011 anybody have been able to nominate
his or her favorite life-improving design for INDEX: Award 2011. All the
submitted entries are displayed on the nominations website.
From this pool of nominations an international jury of
designers, design scholars and thinkers, business people, and curators
will select a group of finalists which will be announced in April 2011.
All finalists will later be displayed in the world touring INDEX: Award
2011 Exhibition premiering in Copenhagen, Denmark, in September 2011.
On September 2, 2011, five winning designs will each receive a 100,000 Euro purse in the Copenhagen opera house, Operaen.
Browse all the nominations for INDEX: Award 2011 at http://NominateForIndexAward.dk/Presentation.