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LeNS Conference & Students Award

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Sustainability in Design: NOW!

Challenges and Opportunities for Design Research, Education and Practice in the XXI Century

Bangalore, India, 29th of September – 1st of October 2010

Deadline for abstract submission 30th of April 2010

Get more info and register on-line at www.lensconference.polimi.it

The Sustainability in Design: Now! conference is a platform for sharing the latest knowledge and experiences in product, service and system design, to promote sustainable systems thinking in design education, research and practice communities. The conference approach is to look at various stakeholders in this arena - designers, design educators and design researchers - as a unique learning community. The objective is the creation of a new ethos, within such a community, enabling all possible synergies and fruitful processes of knowledge and know-how osmosis and cross-fertilisation.

This conference is promoted and organized as the conclusive event of the LeNS - Learning Network on Sustainability - project, funded by EU under the Asia-link program, that aims at the development and diffusion of design for sustainability in design institutions.

There is no conference fee and proceedings will be published (with ISBN).

For more information on the conference please visit www.lensconference.polimi.it or contact lens.conference@polimi.it
For information on the LeNS project please visit www.lens.polimi.it or contact lens@polimi.it

LeNS Student Design Competition 2009-2010

The LeNS Student Design Competition invites student teams to design a sustainable product-service system (SPSS) that addresses key environmental and social problem(s) in the sectors of Food, Health/Well-being, and Mobility. The LeNS Student Design Competition opens in 2009 and is targeted to all design schools worldwide.

Entries of students from courses in design schools are accepted from May 2009. The competition is open for student entries (SPSS) created during courses that are held in the competition period and that are enrolled to the competition by their teacher (see “Competition Announcement” below). The competition closes in June 2010, and courses during the spring term 2010 are accepted if they end before the end of May.

One representative from the winning entry team will be invited and his/her expenses paid to the exhibition and award ceremony in 2010, which will be held at a conference – SUSTAINABILITY IN DESIGN NOW! – from the 29^th September to the 1^st of October 2010, at JN Tata Auditorium, Bangalore, India.

Links for more information:

LeNS Competition Announcement

Contact information and enquiries:

lens.award@polimi.it