INDEX: | AIGA Aspen Design Challenge Prize Awarded

The winner of the 2008–2009 INDEX: | AIGA Aspen Design Challenge, “Designing Water’s Future,” is Joanna Szczepanska from Monash University in Melbourne, Australia, selected for her urban gardening design, VeggiePatch.

On August 25–26, 2009, the finalists met again in Copenhagen for a workshop with social investors, venture capitalists and business leaders to seek sustainable economic and logistical support. And on August 28, Joanna Szczepanska was awarded the INDEX: | AIGA Aspen Design Challenge Prize, a $10,000 grant sponsored by the JL Foundation for implementation of her project.

 

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    Joanna Szczepanska accepting the inaugural INDEX: | AIGA Aspen Design Challenge Prize
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    Joanna Szczepanska speaking at CODE09
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    Installation view of prototype for “VeggiePatch”
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    Construction side view of “VeggiePatch”
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    A prototype for “VeggiePatch”
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    Detail of a prototype for the “VeggiePatch” design
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    Cutaway view of design for “VeggiePatch”
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    Instructions for owners of the “VeggiePatch” product
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    Detail of instructions showing how “VeggiePatch” design will function
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    Posters describing Joanna Szczepanska’s design for “ Designing Water’s Future”
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    Joanna Szczepanska, winner of the inaugural INDEX: | AIGA Aspen Design Challenge Prize

Challenge description

The Aspen Design Challenge is a biennial call to students worldwide, inviting them to address an international problem that is not only crucial in today’s world, but critical to our survival and the world that they will one day inherit.

The Challenge is a partnership between AIGA, the professional association for design, in the United States, and INDEX:, a nonprofit  organization in Denmark that is dedicated to changing global mindsets by exploring and showing how design can improve life for people. This year’s challenge, “Designing Water’s Future,” is a collaboration with Circle of Blue—the international network of leading journalists, scientists and communications designers that reports and presents the information necessary to respond to the global freshwater crisis—and COLLINS:, a communication design and innovation firm based in New York City.