Hasta La Ideas

A nice afternoon browse, today INDEX announced the 61 finalists representing 27 countries on six continents for this year’s INDEX: Award. The Copenhagen-based organization will award a total of 500,000 Euros to 5 winners from the categories of Body, Work, Home, Play and Community based on the Jury selection for “Best Design to Improve Life.”

Amongst the finalists are some of our favorite projects of the last year:
Autodesk’s Online Sustainability Workshop
Bware Water Meter
Design for Change empowers children to change the world!
Janine Benyus’ AskNature Website
Studio Formafantasma’s exploration of materials
Novacem’s Carbon-negative cement
OpenIDEO
Plumen Lightbulbs
Learning Landscapes
Hovding’s inflatable Helmet

and more!!

Take a moment to look at some of these inspiring projects and we look forward to this September’s winner announcements!

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