Design Directions - an innovative programme of awards
This RSA awards scheme challenges professional designers-in-training to apply their skills to difficult social issues.
Closing deadlines
The closing date for entry forms has now passed. If you have missed the deadline but still wish to enter, please contact us to arrange an extension.
The closing for submitting most project work was Friday 11 December. If you are working on DESIGN FOR SOCIAL INCLUSION or INDEPENDENCE DAYS, then the deadline is 8 January 2010. If you have any concerns that the current weather conditions may prevent your entry from arriving on time, then please let us know.
Design Directions 2009/10
Seeking opportunities for meaningful design interventions that deliver change and improvement across a range of real world issues, forms the basis of this year's scheme.
These briefs encourage participants to test their skills in tough new areas where design may rarely have ventured: threats to public security; invasive medical procedures and patient compliance; the challenges to self-reliance facing older or disabled people and socially excluded communities.
Design Directions plus
Design Directions Plus, piloted last year, and which provides professional mentoring and stakeholder workshops for finalists, features again this year.
All of this year's projects are open to undergraduate and postgraduate students, as well as those who graduated in 2009.
