Stanford Center on Longevity Design Challenge 2020
Stanford Center on Longevity Design Challenge 2020 now is over!
The Stanford Center on Longevity Design Challenge, a global competition that encourages students to design products and services to improve well-being across the lifespan now is in its seventh year and is calling all university students to participate.
About Competition
The Stanford Center on Longevity invites all university students to partecipate in its annual global design competition: “Reducing the Inequity Gap: Designing for Affordability“ with a goal to design products and services to improve well-being across the lifespan.
The goals of this challenge is to create well-designed, practical solutions that improve well-being across the lifespan, encourage a new generation of students to become knowledgeable about issues associated with long lives and provide promising designers with a path to drive change in the world.
The rising level of inequity in societies around the world is one of the key challenges of this century...While design and technology are increasingly being deployed to help individuals reach old age mentally sharp, physically fit, and financially secure; innovations far too often only reach people at the upper levels of socioeconomic status.
The 2020 Stanford Center on Longevity (SCL) Design Challenge will target this issue by asking young designers around the world to identify and design for opportunities to significantly reduce the cost of innovations that help people at all ages do the things needed to increase their odds ofalong and healthy life. The Challenge will be informed by the SCL’s New Map of Life project, which has identified areas for improvement in the quest for helping people live healthy and productive 100-year lives. Designers will be asked to identify and address an opportunity and propose a low-cost solution.
Submission requirements:
Create a design for a product, service, or program that addresses the challenge topic, “Reducing the Inequity Gap: Designing for Affordability.”
Any design significantly reducing the cost of an existing solution that contributes to longer and healthier lives will be accepted for consideration. New solutions are also welcome, but should include justification that they are affordable to the majority of the target population.
The teams will need to identify both the context in which the solution will be deployed, and an analysis of affordability in the target user.
Submit your design at https://designchallengestanford.skild.com/ any time before 6 December 2019.
The 5-8 Finalist teams will be announced in January 2020. The Final competition will be held at Stanford University in April 2020.
There is no entry fee to participate!
Eligibility
Each team must consist of at least one full-time student from any accredited institution of higher education anywhere in the world. Teams may have up to 5 members, and may include non-students. Only students are allowed to present at the Finals.
Entry fees
There is no entry fee to participate!