The annual Next Generation Design Competition is open for entries.
This year Metropolis challenges designers to develop solutions that empower, advance, and include groups often overlooked in the design process (including but not limited to, our rapidly increasing aging population and citizens with disabilities). Consider the 1.13 billion people with unique needs worldwide.
The competition calls for solutions at ALL SCALES, from systems, experiences, places, to spaces, products, or any area that needs to be made inclusive and empowering. Submissions can be conceptual, in the early stages of development, near completion, or completed and ready for the next phase of development. The ideas must have the potential to be made, built, or otherwise realized.
The winner of Next Generation receives a $10,000 prize, but, more importantly, that person or team receives career-building international attention.
Deadline for entries is fast approaching: February 18, 2013
Email NextGen@metropolismag.