The No Waste Challenge with €10000 from What Design Can Do Organization

The No Waste Challenge presented by What Design Can Do (WDCD) and the IKEA Organization is now open for submissions. This global design competition focuses on addressing the enormous impact of waste and consumerism on climate change. Participate in this competition and join in accelerating the transition towards a just and circular society.

Competition Theme:-

• Humanity has to go beyond the current ‘take-make-waste’ model of the linear economy and aim for more sustainable and restorative alternatives. This means we need to consume more mindfully, design out waste, and make products and materials that regenerate natural systems and that are kept in use.

• While humans focus on redesigning the entire system over the long term, they can also make an immediate impact by buying less stuff, making better products, and reusing or recycling materials.

• WDCD and the IKEA Organization are looking for radical new ideas and design-driven solutions at various scales to reduce waste and rethink our entire consumption and production cycle and move towards a just and circular economy for all.

Competition Briefs:-

The no waste challenge offers three global design briefs for participants to consider. They can either focus on one specific brief or find that more briefs are relevant for them. Each brief addresses a different part of the harmful take-make-waste cycle, while being broad enough to allow for diverse perspectives, and for solutions that are rooted in local contexts. The briefs are as following:

• Brief 1: Take Less

  • Our current value systems are driving overconsumption and leading us to a detached relationship with nature. 

  • How can we inspire the use of fewer natural resources and consume more mindfully?

• Brief 2: Make Better

  • Products, services and systems are designed with little regard for waste and overall environmental impact. 

  • How can we make products and materials that are kept in use and/or regenerate natural systems?

• Brief 3: Handle Smarter

  • There is insufficient infrastructure and knowledge to help us understand, manage and prevent waste downstream.

  • How can we use waste as a resource for disposing of goods more responsibly?

Awards:-

• The winners of the No Waste Challenge will be selected by an international jury of leading experts in design, climate action and social entrepreneurship. Next to a prize fund of €10.000 each, the centerpiece of the award package is the development programme designed to support the winning teams in further strengthening and scaling up their projects. 

• Each winner will get the chance to present their projects to a global audience during one of WDCD’s annual events on design and innovation. Besides gaining access to WDCD’s extensive network of change-makers, winning teams will also receive valuable press coverage and media exposure through WDCD’s channels and those of its partners.

About WDCD:-

What Design Can Do (WDCD) Organization is the perfect place for designers and creatives to meet businesses, industries, NGO’s and governments who aim to start using design innovation. What Design Can Do believes in the power of design and creativity to transform society. Money, governments or science can’t solve complex global issues on their own, that’s why WDCD seeks for fresh ideas, alternative strategies and provocative thoughts. 

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