KZN Your Street Challenge calls on creatives

The Your Street KZN Challenge calls on KZN designers, students, residents and creatives to use their creativity to enhance an aspect of their street. A total of R250 000 is up for grabs for designers with the best, most feasible ideas for owning, loving and improving their street, together with a plan for implementing the idea.

"We're excited to be including KZN in this creative venture. We're looking forward to receiving innovative and transformative ideas for improving the street-level experience in KwaZulu-Natal," says Design Indaba founder Ravi Naidoo.

All original, creative and innovative socially-minded ideas will be considered. The prize money for the Your Street KZN Challenge must be used to implement a creative intervention on a KZN street. Entries close on 31 January 2012.

Cash prizes:

• The first prize of R100 000 will be awarded to the designer that comes up with the best idea AND a sound business model that illustrates how their idea can feasibly be implemented.
  
• Three second-place winners will each receive R50 000 for innovative design solutions that can be immediately implemented using the prize money.

Judging:

1. Generosity: How many people other than you does your design solution effect positively?
   
2. International excellence and innovation: Does your design solution stand up to and trump similar world-class ideas? Is it new, original and forward-thinking?
   
3. Feasibility: How do you propose to allocate the R50 000?
   
4. Fun: How much pleasure, enjoyment, beauty and smiles does your design solution inspire?
   
5. Do: Can and will the design solution actually be executed?
   
6. A better world through creativity: How does your design solution make the world better and further inspire other people to make the world even better?
   

The KZN launch took place on Friday, 25 November 2011.

For more, go to www.designindaba.com/yourstreet.

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