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Foreword by Kigge Hvid, INDEX: CEO Credits Sponsors and Partners INDEX:Award Ceremony INDEX:Award Categories INDEX:Jury Body category | Freeplay Fetal Heart Rate Monitor Home category | Chulha Work category | Kiva.org Play category | PIG 05049 Community category | Better Place People’s Choice | Street Swags INDEX:Award Winners 2005 and 2007 INDEX:Award Exhibition 'Grannies’ and School Service Opening Events Design Picnic and Design Dinner Business and Design Educational Initiatives INDEX: AIGA Design Challenge INDEX: Regional Ambassadors Partner City Singapore and Seoul's INDEX:Award Exhibition Coming: INDEXING HORIZONS

Bag by Cameron Sinclair, Architecture for Humanity.

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INDEX: board 2009

Christian Scherfig, Chairman Flemming Lindeløv Jens Wittrup Willumsen Lars Nørby Johansen Nille Juul-Sørensen

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Foreword INDEX: Design to Improve Life INDEX: was founded in 2002. After worldwide research, we launched the now globally celebrated concept “Design to Improve Life” in an era when design was widely embraced for beauty and aesthetics.

The launch of INDEX: coincided with several change-stimulating events in a world many felt was becoming unbalanced. INDEX: complemented the “Bottom of the Pyramid” writings of C.K. Prahalad; a growing focus on social entrepreneurship highlighted by the Nobel Prize for Mohammed Yunus; media attention to Al Gore’s “An Inconvenient Truth”; and the advent of the United Nations' Millennium Goals.

With friends and colleagues, we fostered a widespread understanding of design as a powerful, integral component of solutions to major challenges. We built up a network represented in 78 countries, with an outreach to hundreds of thousands of the best and brightest designers, students and thinkers. In the process, we started a movement that will continue to press ahead, as we learn more and reach toward shared, better future horizons.

A small step can be seen in this chronicle of INDEX: 2009.

Join us! – And thank you to everyone already with us.

Kigge Hvid, INDEX:CEO

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CREDITS INDEX: 2009 is under the patronage of HRH the Crown Prince of Denmark

Main Partners

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INDEX: supply partners are Bilsby A/S and Vink A/S.

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SPONSORS/PARTNERS INDEX: Design to Improve Life is supported and partnered by a host of key government bodies, foundations and corporations.

The INDEX:Award has exceeded even our wildest dreams, and the general impression is that INDEX: is now rapidly maturing and becoming an established brand. INDEX: has moved closer to the fundamental Danish design elements, which we believe should be embraced.

We hope to see more of beauty, aesthetics and functionality -- which is not contrary to 'Design To Improve Life'.

Jacob Holm CEO, Fritz Hansen The Danish Industry Foundation spends 100 mill.

Danish Kroner every year to develop and support projects that strengthen Danish business and industry. It was natural for us to support INDEX: because innovation is so important to Denmark.

In order to compete with low-cost production countries, we depend on value added innovation.

Mads Lebech CEO, Danish Industry Foundation INDEX: is the world’s largest design prize, but it is so much more than that; it is a global campaign that raises awareness about some of the most important global challenges, through real projects and original concepts. The further potential of INDEX: is vast and I am sure that we have only seen the beginning.

Thomas Bustrup Deputy Director General, Confederation of Danish Industry

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The Capital Region of Denmark and EU - funding within our area - is one of the biggest INDEX: supporters.

We are very proud of this.

We know from our work with hospitals, the environment and education what an important role design can play in improving people’s lives. This is why we have created a Center for Health Innovation that will use design processes as a method to generate among other things - increased productivity, greater patient satisfaction and more joy among employees in their work.

In the Capital Region of Denmark we make ourselves available to the global INDEX: network. For example, the Cape Town designers of the INDEX:Award-winning Freeplay Fetal Heart Rate Monitor are working with one of the biggest hospitals in our region, Herlev Hospital, where the design is being tested on women who are pregnant and in delivery at the hospital.

INDEX: Design to Improve Life shows us how many challenges can utilize design as a part of their solutions – and this helps us understand how many different solutions may be available. We all hold part of the responsibility to co-design and carry out these solutions.

Vibeke Storm Rasmussen Chairman, Capital Region of Denmark

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INDEX : Award Ceremony In its first multi-media Award Ceremony, INDEX:Design to Improve Life awarded the world’s richest design prize (500,000 euros) on the stage of the all-new Danish Broadcasting Corporation’s Koncerthuset, designed

by Jean Nouvel.

Attendance on this beautiful evening of August 28, 2009, was led by Their Royal Highnesses the Crown Prince and Crown Princess of Denmark.

Joining the Royal Couple were designers, thinkers and doers, friends and colleagues, ministers, ambassadors and guests from many parts of the world, as well as major media and business representatives – all present in Copenhagen to honor and celebrate newly awarded Design to Improve Life.

The program was seen live by a worldwide Internet audience in a live stream facilitated

by Facebook technologies and was broadcasted on TV by The Danish Broadcasting Corporation.

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Onstage to lead the gala presentation were news-media hosts Daniel Sieberg of CBS News, New York; Shanon Cook of CNN, New York; and Adrian Lloyd Hughes of DR2, Copenhagen. Backing them were the Danish National Chamber Orchestra, with work of Igor Stravinsky and specially created new music by Copenhagen-based composer Karsten Fundal.

Under huge screens on which expressly produced video material was projected, the awards were presented by: Todd Bracher Creative Director, Georg Jensen Valeria Budinich Vice President, Ashoka Jacob Holm CEO, Fritz Hansen Nille Juul-Sørensen INDEX: Jury Chairman Mads Lebech CEO, Danish Industry Foundation Hanne Bak Pedersen Deputy Director, UNICEF Supply Division Vibeke Storm Rasmussen Chairman, Capital Region of Denmark Sam Tan Parliamentary Secretary, Singapore

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Hosts for INDEX:Award 2009 Ceremony onstage at DR's Koncerthuset – from left, DR2's Adrian Lloyd Hughes, CNN's Shanon Cook and CBS News' Daniel Sieberg.

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HRH the Crown Princess of Denmark is greeted on arrival at DR's Koncerthuset for INDEX:Award 2009

by INDEX: CEO Kigge Hvid and Nicoline Muurmand.

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INDEX : Award Categories The five industry-acclaimed INDEX:Award categories – each with a 100,000-euro purse – focus on universally recognizable facets of human life. In every case, the international INDEX: Jury seeks out systems designs as well as product designs, in searching for the finalists and winners using the major INDEX: criteria of Form, Impact and Context.

Body Appliances used in treatment and care, tools to help cover needs, body-related technology, as well as services and strategies related to the body.

Home Architecture, interior design, tools, appliances, utility systems, software and home computers.

Services, strategies and processes for the home.

Work Architecture, interior design, tools, aids, communications, control and management systems. Services, strategies and processes for work environments.

Play Sports, play, leisure and culture related facilities and activities. Strategies, services and concepts within these areas.

Community Products, services, strategies and concepts for society, networking and communities.

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INDEX : Jury The international INDEX: Jury is the very heart of the INDEX: organization. Each of the jurors adds his or her professional insights to the group's collective intelligence.

Nille Juul-Sørensen Associate Director, Arup, DK Arnold S. Wasserman Chairman, The Idea Factory, USA Ged Davis Co-President, Global Energy Assessment, UK Hael Kobayashi Digital Entertainment Executive, AUS Hella Jongerius Designer and CEO of JongeriusLab, NL/GER John Heskett Chair Professor of Design, The Hong Kong Polytechnic University, HK Dr. Milton Tan Founding Executive Director, DesignSingapore Council, SGP Paola Antonelli Curator of Design and Architecture, Museum of Modern Art, USA Patrick Frick Member of The Value Web and Partner, Blatter+Frick, CH Pontus Wahlgren Senior Industrial Designer, IDEO, UK Ravi Naidoo Managing Director, Interactive Africa; RSA

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INDEX : Award Winner Body category Freeplay Fetal Heart Rate Monitor Accepting John Hutchinson, CTO, Freeplay Energy, Cape Town, South Africa, with Dr. John Wyatt, University College London.

The Freeplay Fetal Heart Rate Monitor works off-grid, where there's no electricity, to support child deliveries in rural settings far from sophisticated medical care for mother and child.

According to the UN, 99 percent of the 4 million newborn deaths per year occur in the developing world, often from causes that could be prevented with basic care. Getting an aid like this into the hands of midwives in the developing world could mean the difference between life and death, both for mothers and infants.

Freeplay CTO John Hutchinson has pledged to use the 100,000-euro prize to produce heart rate monitors for the field, and to complete development of a pulse oxymeter. Capital Region Chairman, Vibeke Storm Rasmussen, has pledged testing support from Copenhagen’s Herlev Hospital.

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John Hutchinson, CTO of Freeplay Energy, Cape Town, South Africa, accepts the INDEX:Award 2009 in the Body category for the Freeplay Fetal Heart Rate Monitor.

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INDEX : Award Winner Home category Chulha | Philips Philanthropy by Design Accepting Stefano Marzano, CEO and Chief Creative Director, Philips Design, Eindhoven, The Netherlands, with Simona Rocchi, Philips Senior Director for Sustainable Design.

The Chulha is a stove designed to limit the dangerous health conditions caused by traditions of indoor cooking in many rural areas of the developing world.

The stove is being made available by Philips Design to the universe of social entrepreneurs so they can - free of charge - produce the stove themselves and generate local business while helping counter what the World Health Organization estimates is some 1.6 million deaths per year from conditions prompted by the toxic fumes of indoor cooking with ‘bio-mass’ fuels.

The Chulha works by trapping smoke and heat and removing them from the home.

Philips Design CEO Stefano Marzano will use the 100,000-euro INDEX: prize to widen distribution of the Chulha and promote new design for health care.

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Stefano Marzano, CEO and Chief Creative Director of Philips Design in Eindhoven, The Netherlands, is joined by Philips Senior Director Simona Rocchi in accepting the INDEX:Award 2009 in the Home category for the Chulha.

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INDEX : Award Winner

Work category Kiva.org Accepting Premal Shah, President, Kiva.org, San Francisco, California, USA.

Kiva.org is the world’s first person-to-person micro-lending website. It empowers people to lend directly to unique, small entrepreneurs in many parts of the world.

In August 2009, Kiva had distributed nearly $100 million in loans to developing-world entrepreneurs; micro-finance loans made by some 500,000 online participants, most of whom make loans of $25 at a time.

INDEX: jurors point out that while the Kiva.org site is not exceptional as a web creation, its success in scaling small loans to create such heft in aggregate funding is its genius.

Premal Shah, Kiva President, has pledged to use half the 100,000-euro INDEX: prize for operating expenses, and to make the other half available to the INDEX: Jury for revolving investments in Kiva.org entrepreneurs.

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Premal Shah, President of Kiva.org of San Francisco, California, accepts the INDEX:Award 2009 in the Work category.

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INDEX : Award Winner Play category PIG 05049 Accepting Christien Meindertsma, designer, Rotterdam, The Netherlands.

PIG 05049 is a communications design that tracks the 185 products made from a single pig.

Christien Meindertsma’s design – three years in the making – was chosen by the INDEX: Jury because it establishes a new awareness, particularly useful for young audiences, of what contributes to our world and lives.

The design includes a book, PIG 05049, which charts and pictures each of the products produced from (parts of) the animal. The pig went into not only predictable foodstuffs – pork chops and bacon – but also ammunition, train brakes, automobile paint, washing powder, fine bone china and cigarettes.

The book, PIG 05049, will be provided free as an online resource. Meindertsma will use the 100,000-euro INDEX: prize to create new projects in collaboration with the INDEX: Jury and will teach master classes to Danish design students at the invitation of Danish Minister of Culture Carina Christensen.

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Christien Meindertsma of Rotterdam, The Netherlands acknowledges the audience as she accepts the INDEX:Award 2009 in the Play category for her communications design PIG 05049.

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INDEX : Award Winner Community category Better Place Electric Vehicle (EV) Services Accepting Shai Agassi, Founder and CEO, Better Place, Palo Alto, California, USA.

The Better Place electrical car infrastructure is an ambitious large scale systemic design focused on the effort to move motorists, the automotive industry and energy-distribution past the internal-combustion engine.

Elements of the Better Place system include hundreds of thousands of plug-in charge-spots; switching stations for mechanized exchange of batteries; an advanced computing platform; energy-demand management capabilities for utility companies; and support of automakers that accommodate the battery-switch mechanism.

Denmark’s state-owned DONG Energy has entered into an agreement to roll out the first complete Better Place system in 2011 in Copenhagen.

Better Place CEO Shai Agassi has pledged to use the 100,000-euro INDEX: prize to found a world competition for young designers in the creation of new electric vehicles.

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Shai Agassi, Better Place Founder and CEO, Palo Alto, California, accepts the INDEX:Award 2009 in the Community category.

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INDEX : Award Winner People’s Choice Award Street Swags Accepting: Jean Madden, school teacher and designer of Street Swags, Brisbane, Australia.

A bed and bag with room for belongings, Street Swag is made of lightweight, waterproofed canvas with a high-density foam mattress. It provides users with a degree of comfort, warmth, and protection from the weather.

Designed for people living on the streets, the Swags’ discreet appearance offers some safety for those who want to be ‘invisible.’

The simplicity of the design enables lowskilled workers to manufacture the swags efficiently while minimizing waste of raw materials.

This award was determined by a global popular vote conducted online at DesignToImproveLife.dk with the help of Facebook Connect technology.

The prize for this award was an Arne Jacobsen Egg™ chair from People’s Choice sponsor Fritz Hansen.

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10th grade students at St. Joseph's Nudgee College, proud to have rolled their first order of Street Swags.

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INDEX:Award Winners 2005 and 2007 The first INDEX:Award in 2005 established the five-category system for the 500,000-euro prize and went to: · LifeStraw Body category and People’s Choice A simple straw with filters providing clean water for one year for US$6.

· Softwall Home category A flexible and foldable wall, accommodating contemporary lifestyles in old houses.

· Observatorio IberoAmericano Work category A learning and sharing platform for craftsmen in Spanish-speaking countries. · Apple iTunes and iPod Play category Solving intellectual property rights of musicians on the Internet. · siYathemba, field of hope Community category A stadium with health clinics to counter the stigma related to HIV with prevention and treatment.

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The winners of INDEX:Award 2007 were the following designs: ·

Mobility for Each One Body category An affordable and highly effective leg prosthetic for those injured by mines.

· Solar Bottle Home category Building on the SODIS system, a solution to provide clean drinking water in rural areas. ·

Tongue Sucker Work category A widely applicable device used to keep trauma victims from choking.

· Tesla Roadster Play category An all-electric sports car with a business model devised to rid electric cars of their golf cart image. · XO Computer Community category A low-cost computer meant to provide learning tools for the 99-percent of kids in the developing world without access to computers. · Antivirus People’s Choice A simple container for disposing of used syringe needless to prevent disease spreading. www.DesignToImproveLife.dk

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INDEX: Award Exhibition Established as a principal part of the 2005 biennial award cycle, the INDEX:Award Exhibition is one of the most valuable, instructive and educational elements of the year-‘round INDEX: program.

Touring the world, the exhibition is drawn from the finalist-designs of the INDEX:Award cycle.

For example, the international INDEX: Jury designated 69 finalists from an initial pool of more than 720 nominations from 54 countries for INDEX:Award 2009. Those finalists are now represented in the touring INDEX:Award Exhibition, which functions as a telling ambassador to the world, an entertaining and informative advocate for Design to Improve Life.

Each design in the show is set in its own clear ‘bubble,’ suitable for outdoor or indoor display and documented with text and images so that visitors can understand the intents of the designers behind these designs, the challenges they address and the fluency of the language of good Design to Improve Life when world issues need solutions.

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At the exhibition, we experience designers with a broad range of professional activities working in an equally wide range of media.

Common to all is their use of skills to make life better. Instead of classifying design by its disciplinary categories, INDEX: classifies design by the area of human life that it targets.

Catalogue INDEX:Award 2009 Exhibition

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INDEX : ‘Grannies’ and School Service At a museum, they’re called ‘docents’ – at INDEX:Award Exhibition, we call them our ‘Grannies.’

They’re a busy, highly educated, informed group of senior citizens (men as well as women) who premiere each biennial award exhibition with us in Copenhagen. The Grannies lead tours, care for visitors, handle the exhibition and even conduct multi-lingual events for our international visitors to the show.

And as the Grannies greet and handle exhibition visitors, our School Service program supplies extensive teaching materials both to public schools (grades 7 through 10) and to teachers, free of charge.

As such, we find that both young and old become enlightened, articulate and eager proponents of the global movement toward Design to Improve Life.

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INDEX : Opening Events As new a concept as Design to Improve Life might be when it comes to tackling the world’s great social issues, there’s nothing new about the sense of friendship and collegiality in which our advocacy flourishes.

Our growing network of global designers and leaders in all walks of life is open to everyone interested in Design to Improve Life, and convenes every two years in Copenhagen in a joyous reunion both with the driving principles of the movement – and with each other.

In kick-off events of the INDEX:Award Exhibition – first for the national sponsors and supporters of this work, and then for our international visitors and collaborators – we meet old friends, make new ones and find fellowship and fun in our common commitment to bringing design to help solvethe challenges of our world.

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Design Picnic and Design Dinner Once the INDEX:Award has been given, the ceremony staged and the winners toasted, the biennial INDEX: Weekend includes an afternoon’s relaxation – our Design Picnic - in the charming setting of Copenhagen’s Museum of Art and Design.

And in the evening, some of Copenhagen’s most design-savvy (and supportive) citizens open their homes to us in a hugely popular round of Design Dinners.

Over great food and in soft candlelight, we toast the weekend and each other and talk of our progress in so many parts of the world in bringing a new sensibility and momentum to Design to Improve Life.

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Design Dinners Above, INDEX: Jury member Ged Davis, Liliane Vanlijsebeth and Architecture for Humanity Co-Founder Cameron Sinclair enjoy talking.

Right, INDEX: Senior Advisor Jens Martin Skibsted, foreground, Cameron Sinclair and Senior Advisor Felicitas von Peter gather at a Design Dinner.

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Business and Design Among the greatest challenges facing advocates of Design to Improve Life is the need to bring business leaders to an understanding of how profitable it can be to support the work of worldwide designers whose innovations respond to issues with market impact.

As part of INDEX:2009, INDEX: and Copenhagen Design Week presented ‘Design for Good,’ a special panel debate on how the business world is responding to the call for implementation of great Design to Improve Life.

Design critic of the International Herald Tribune and New York Times Alice Rawsthorn led an animated session before a packed house, with specialists on-hand to help guide the discussion: ·

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Chris Bangle Former Chief of Design, BMW Design Group Cameron Sinclair Co-Founder, Architecture for Humanity Patrick Frick Member of The Value Web and Partner, Blatter + Frick Fabio Cavalli CEO, Mondobiotech

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Quite selfishly the INDEX: seminar was incredible. This is probably the only seminar I’ve been a part of where all the speakers just kept on talking about ideas and potential collaborations until late into the night.

Cameron Sinclair CEO and Co-Founder, Architecture for Humanity

Participating in the INDEX: Design for Good business seminar are, clockwise from top, Alice Rawsthorn, Cameron Sinclair, Fabio Cavalli Patrick Frick and Chris Bangle.

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Educational Initiatives Currently in rapid development, a new pilot project is underway for testing at three Danish high schools – Ordrup High, Niels Brock Business High and the Professional High School of North Zealand.

The effort is the world’s first such program devised expressly to generate a full educational format in Design to Improve Life to be used in a social science curriculum. The objective is to give students a methodology to understand major global challenges in terms of design tools' role in solutions.

The pilot project is being carried out over several years so that educators can gather an understanding of how best to communicate the concept and potential of Design to Improve Life, vesting it in the future scenarios that lie ahead of coming generations.

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The students participating in the program have something to look forward to, because it is a lot of fun designing solutions to problems that you helped point out, yourself.

They'll work on assignments that put the program’s subjects in perspective in a different and creative way.

Frederikke og Mikkel 2. Q, Ordrup Highschool

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INDEX: | AIGA Design Challenge INDEX: Design to Improve Life teamed with AIGA – which is the U.S. professional association for design and – and the World Economic Forum to issue in May 2008 a challenge to design and business colleges. The focus was a dramatically accelerating global water emergency, which amid mounting concerns about climate change is being felt in both the developed and developing worlds.

With the participation of Circle of Blue, Collins: and Cumulus, the program’s jury assessed the participation of more than 700 students from 28 countries.

The INDEX: AIGA Aspen Design Challenge jury’s finalists were invited to Copenhagen to work with companies and social investors to develop business plans and seek implementation of their designs.

Joanna Szczepanska of Monash University in Melbourne, Australia, won the competition and a $10,000 prize for her Veggie Patch design to create urban edible gardens in the world’s cities.

Photo by Brent Stirton/Getty Images, courtesy Circle of Blue

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congratulations!

You are all winners!

The strength of the INDEX: Design Challenge is that as many as 700 students from 28 countries have tackled ‘Designing Water’s Future’. In Copenhagen, students from Australia, USA, Turkey, Croatia, South Africa and Denmark have given us insights into their projects, and it has been fascinating to see such dedication.

Hard work and dedication are prerequisites for ideas translated into viable products on the global market – go ahead!

Shipping is the cornerstone of The Lauritzen Foundation, but production and innovative business ventures are also focal points. There is another side too, namely the humanitarian, direct aid support globally, as well as education.

INDEX: Design to Improve Life is a true example of Danish enterprise. We thank INDEX: for their contribution in providing a platform for the students, the future of our innovation, and for giving The Lauritzen Foundation an opportunity to be part of this process.

Jens Ditlev Lauritzen JL-Foundation

Design Challenge winner Joanna Szczepanska is joined by Jens Ditlev Lauritzen of the JL-Foundation and Danish Minister for the Environment Troels Lund Poulsen.

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INDEX: Regional Ambassadors One of the greatest assets INDEX: has in widening and deepening its vast network of Design to Improve Life practitioners and advocates is a strong team of Regional Ambassadors.

These are professionals in their own right, some of them designers, whose perspective on design and world challenges make them uniquely qualified to bring together the right people with issues that count – and INDEX: with the expertise and forward thinking it nourishes.

If you know of work that needs to be called to the attention of INDEX: – or simply would like to be in touch with our movement and mission on the regional level, please visit DesignToImproveLife.dk

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ALEX BLANCH Santiago, Chile BRIAN COLLINS New York, NY, USA CHRISTIAN DITLEV BRUUN New York, NY, USA COSMAS OKOLI Lagos, Nigeria CYNTHIA E. SMITH New York, NY, USA DAVID BERMAN Ottawa, Canada DAVID GROSSMAN Jerusalem, Israel DEMITRIOS FAKINOS Athens, Greece DON RYUN CHANG Seoul, South Korea DR. ROBERT BLAICH Aspen, Colorado, USA EMIL STEGLICH-PETERSEN Copenhagen, Denmark EMILY PILLOTON San Francisco, California, USA ERIC ANANE-ANTWI Kumasi, Ghana GRÉGOIRE SERIKOFF Paris, France GUY SCHOCKAERT Courtrai, Belgium HELEN ORLANDO London, UK HALIM CHOUEIRY Beirut, Lebanon HANI M. AL-HUNEIDI Petra, Jordan IVA BABAJA Zagreb, Croatia J. CARL GANTER Traverse City, Michigan, USA JACQUES LANGE Pretoria, South Africa JESPER NØRGAARD PAGH Copenhagen, Denmark JOANA BÉRTHOLO Lisbon, Portugal LEMEI JULIA CHIU Nagoya, Japan MARIELLE NADAL Quezon City, Phillipines MICHEL CHANAUD Paris, France MOHAMMED JOGIE Johannesburg, South Africa OLLE ZACKRISSON Stockholm, Sweden OMAR VULPINARI Treviso, Italy RUSSELL KENNEDY Melbourne, Australia SUDHIR SHARMA New Delhi, India SØREN MOMSEN Copenhagen, Denmark THOMAS UGO ERMACORA London, UK TONY LAI Singapore

Ambassador contact info: DesignToImproveLife.dk

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INDEX: Partner City Singapore The founding municipality of the INDEX: Partner City program, Singapore, is a proud leader in progressive Design to Improve Life - worldwide.

This innovative and unique city-state in Asia is presenting the INDEX:Award Exhibition in conjunction with its hosting of the International Council of Societies of Industrial Design’s world congress, the Singapore Design Festival – under the direction of INDEX: Juror Dr. Milton Tan. One highly anticipated part of the festival is Studio2050, a suite of specially commissioned outlooks in Design to Improve Life.

Seoul’s INDEX:Award Exhibition Another stop for the INDEX:Award Exhibition is Seoul, South Korea, where the show has been housed in a huge inflatable tent as part of the second annual Seoul Design Olympiad at the Jamsil Olympic Stadium.

Above, Dr. Lee Boon Yang, Minister of Information, Communication and the Arts, Singapore with Hans Skov Christensen, CEO of Confederation of Danish Industry.

At Left, Dr. Lee Boon Yang with Peter Bysted, President of The Danish Design School.

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Coming: INDEXING HORIZONS As global energy rises to meet the hope of change, we at INDEX:Design to Improve Life are putting together our most ambitious effort yet.

Involving the world’s thinkers and doers not only in design but also in modern governance, the arts, science, education and more, we will be INDEXING HORIZONS to focus the power of design where it is most needed.

Watch for more information on our program of future scenarios involving Horizon Stages, Design Life Labs and an innovative Horizon Gallery that shares and accelerates the best ideas toward implementation.

This and details on nominations for the next INDEX:Award 2011 and all the latest and most focused information in the world about Design to Improve Life are at www.DesignToImproveLife.dk

INDEX:Design to Improve Life is the proud recipient of the Design Leadership Award 2009, awarded by the Hong Kong Design Centre.

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