Jovoto Life Edited Product Design Contest

Deadline: 17 January 2011
Open to: all interested
Prizes: Jury Award: $10,000 Community Award: 1st place – $5,000; 2nd place – $3,000; 3rd place – $2,000; 4th place – $1,000

About the Contest

What if we could save money, radically reduce our environmental impact, and have a freer, less complicated life?

Treehugger founder Graham Hill has part of the answer: we need to have less stuff and live in smaller spaces, like the 420sf (~39 m2) apartment he will renovate in 2011.

To find the best designs, Graham created Life Edited with Mutopo and Jovoto as an open challenge to design an ultra low footprint space. You are invited to propose, discuss and evaluate designs with the goal of inspiring people to consider small living spaces

Goals and requirements

Design a jewel box of an ultra-low-footprint apartment in 420sf (~39 m2)!

The design needs to support the life of a real person in the apartment – someone who works, eats, lives, and entertains. jovoto is looking for apartment designs that allow for:

* a sit-down dinner for 12
* a comfortable lounging option for 8 people
* space for 2 guests with some visual and ideally auditory privacy
* a home office
* a work area with space for a rolling tool chest
* a hideable kitchen

Discuss as well as evaluate designs with the goal of inspiring people to consider small living spaces.

When a design is found that meets all of Graham’s criteria (he needs to love it, since he’ll be living in the space and paying for it) an additional contract will be awarded to use the design or elements of the design in his apartment renovation.

Awards

The designs will be evaluated by two parties: the community as well as an already selected jury.

The jury prize will consist of $10,000 in cash, a one weeks stay at the renovated apartment in NYC, a Strida folding bike, Cisco Umi Telepresence system and Cisco Valet router for 2 locations plus one year of service*, and a Cisco Webex annual subscription. There will also be a Contract award of up to $10,000 to consult on the renovation project.

The community prize will include a total of $13,000 in cash, multiple weeks stays at the renovated apartment in NYC, four Cisco Umi Telepresence systems, four Cisco Valet routers for 2 locations plus one year of service* as well as a four Cisco Webex annual subscriptions (distributed amongst the first 7 places).

For those that always stay on top and comment and rate through out the contests there will be prizes award to those for best feedback to designers. These prizes will consist of 3 Voltaic solar backpacks, 5 Cisco Webex annual subscriptions and 40 Flip Video Camera Kits.

*available to winners in the North America and European Union. Winners in other regions will have the option to exchange the Umi system for other Cisco products. European Union winners may be invited to join the Umi beta testing program.

Rules

* The Life Edited product design contest is a public contest on jovoto, that is, everybody can join.
* The submission period is opened from 26 October 2010 until 17 January 2011, and is followed by a only rating period until 24 January 2011.

How to?

If you don’t already have an account on jovoto, you’ll need to register. The registration is free. Once you are registered and logged in you can submit your entries via the contest’s page on jovoto.

The official website.

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