SDGs Design International Awards 2019

Change the world with your design!

This competition was organized for all students in the world to design solutions to achieve the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs).

Students can solve our problems!

It’s said that we continue living as we do, we’ll need three Earths by 2050.
The younger generation can use their design and creative skills to find solutions for what is the most urgent scenario in human history. With that strong conviction, we created these awards. These awards invited students from all over the world to use their design skills to create new, bold, and innovative solutions.

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SDGs Design International Awards 2019

Entry Themes

Submit designs and ideas for A, B, or C using the entry form and in the designated written plan format. You can download the format document (https://www.sdgs.design.kyushu-u.ac.jp/awards/english/application/) from the submission page in our website. ※Plans that pass the initial review will be published on the website.

A Designs to counter damage caused by natural disasters

B Designs to protect the oceans’ abundance and beauty

C Designs for human coexistence beyond nationality, ethnicity, or age

Schedule

First Review Entry Period: June 1 – October 31, 2019

Announcement of First Review Results: End of November 2019 (planned)

Second Review Entry Period: Early December 2019 – Late December 2019 (planned)

Announcement of Second Review Results: Late January 2020 (planned)

Final Presentation and Award Ceremony: March 14, 2020

Prize Money

Grand Prize 1Group ¥300,000

Second Prize 1Group ¥200,000

Third Prize 1Group ¥100,000

Special Encouragement Award 2Groups ¥50,000

Judges

[Head Judge] Yasuyuki Hirai

Professor, Faculty of Design, Kyushu University

[Judges]

Hua Dong

Professor, Design School, Loughborough University

Kimitaka Kato

Executive Director, Japan Institute of Design Promotion

Clare Brass

Director, Department 22

Kazufumi Nagai

President, Hakuhodo Design

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SDGs Design International Awards 2019

Organizer
Kyushu University Faculty of Design SDGs Design Unit, Center for Designed Futures of Kyushu University

Co-organizer
Kyushu Shiawase Kyoso Labo (Kyushu Happiness Co-creation Lab; Hakuhodo Kyushu branch office), The Asahi Shimbun Company, THE NISHINIPPON SHIMBUN CO., LTD.