CREATable RESOURCES CONTEST - NEXT40 edition

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Contest for young eco-friendly designers

For its 40th anniversary, the Company has the pleasure of presenting the second edition of the international CREATable RESOURCES CONTEST – NEXT40 edition, a challenge launched for young eco-friendly designers with a keen interest in sustainability and the circular economy to envisage the next 40 years.

Challenge

Challenge

CREATable RESOURCES – NEXT40 edition is a challenge to envisage the next 40 years of presorted waste collection within the broader concept of a circular economy.


Within this context, Mattiussi Ecologia challenges young eco-friendly designers to envisage the future of presorting household waste in the home, in order to improve its perception among residents and their propensity to do it, as well as support its effectiveness. Imagining the home of the future, with sustainability and technology in settings where space is increasingly limited.

Objective

Objective

The objective is to design a new product for home living able to combine design, functionality and sustainability as well as digital technology.


Calendar

Calendar

  • 30 January 2024: deadline for asking explanatory questions
  • 31 May 2024: deadline for the projects submission - DEADLINE EXTENDED UNTIL 30 JUNE 2024
  • 30 September 2024: pubblication of results

Participation

Participation is open to young designers (aged under 35), on an individual basis or in groups.

Criteria for assessment

Criteria for assessment

  • Originality and degree of innovation
  • Industrial feasibility
  • Sustainability of manufacturing and materials used
  • Ease and efficiency of use
  • Adaptation to domestic spaces

Prizes

Prizes

1° classified: 2.500 €
2° classified: 1.500 €
3° classified: 1.000 €

 
The panel has the right to award Special Mentions to projects that stand out particularly due to certain aspects of their design, including but not limited to, the most visionary project and the one that best integrates technology.
 
The Company will also consider the possibility of industrializing the winning projects and the subsequent inclusion of the projects in the Mattiussi Ecologia indoor line.

Participate in the CREAtable RESOURCES CONTEST

Fill out the form to participate in the contest