Design Competition with €4500 Award from Desall

Desall is inviting designers all over the world to participate in the Laundry Tool Design Competition. In this competition, you are invited to find a tool for collecting and removing the dirt from the water used to hand wash clothes in countries with water scarcity and poor water quality.

Competition Objectives:-

• The aim of the contest is to find intuitive, effective and simple tools that may help people to easily remove the floccules from the laundry bucket before hand-washing their clothes, either in case of floating or of sedimenting floccules, or in both cases. For this purpose you might:

  • Design new concepts of tools.

  • Design some accessories to adapt/improve existing common objects.

  • Suggest the use of products already on the market, to be duly adapted if necessary, to scale up at a global level.

Design Specifications:-

• Your solutions shall be simple to use and intuitive, compatible with the households and needs of low-income social classes for private use. 

• After pouring turbid water into a laundry bucket/bowl (usually 5 L), the user will add the flocculant product, stir the solution for about 1 min and wait for it about another minute to react and – thanks to the tools you suggest – will easily remove the floccules from the water and clean the water before hand-washing the clothes. 

• The tool shall be reusable overtime (it should not be a disposable object). The tools might also have additional features, for example for facilitating the laundry process as a whole. 

• Consider that flocculant substance would be integrated into detergent products formulas (the user buys a detergent that also contains a flocculation technology). 

• More information about the use can be found in the Material files.

• Your accessories/tools shall ideally be made of recyclable or recycled materials. Depending on the target area, you may also suggest the use of locally-sourced eco-friendly waste materials. 

• It is required that the materials you suggest are compatible with mass-scale production technologies (ex. injection moulding).

Evaluation Criteria:-

• Functionality/Usability 5/5.
• Social impact 4/5.
• Economic sustainability 4/5
• Creative thinking 4/5.
• Eco-friendliness 3/5.

Eligibility and Submission:-

• Participation is free of charge and open to designers and creative talents of any nationality aged 18 years or older. 
• Participants can present one or more projects.

Awards:-

• The winner will get €4500.
• The selection of the winner by RB will be the result of an unquestionable evaluation and it will take into account originality, feasibility and consistency with the brief presented.

About Desall:-

Desall is an open innovation and crowdsourcing platform that, through design contests, connects companies and private clients with a worldwide community of creative talents. It is an Italian leading company in providing digital services. Desall exploits the potential of open innovation through a digital platform and an international community. The skills, experiences and diversified backgrounds of its users allow them to obtain a greater number of solutions developed with an "outside the box" approach, and be able to ultimately provide a better quality outcome.

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