INDEX: is now accepting nominations for the forthcoming INDEX: Award 2011. The award is the largest monetary design award in the world, and it is presented biennially to five winners at a ceremony in Copenhagen. What sets the INDEX: Award apart from other design awards is its focus on designs that have a life-improving impact. INDEX: is looking for designs that target and solve the challenges and problems of human life. The award, worth a total of 500,000 euro, is presented to five winners, which are each presented with a monetary award of 100,000 euro.

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The Warming Huts: An Art + Architecture Competition On Ice competition is intended to provide design teams, both local and around the world, an opportunity to put forward their ideas for shelter and art. Warming Huts: An Art & Architecture Competition on Ice is launching a call for proposals to select design teams to create three (3) unique shelters for the Assiniboine Credit Union River Trail (ACURT), on the Assiniboine River, Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada. This call is open to Canadian and international designers and multidisciplinary teams composed of an architect, artist or designers from other disciplines.

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The Aftermath Project’s mission is to support photographic projects that tell the other half of the story of conflict – the story of what it takes for individuals to learn to live again, to rebuild destroyed lives and homes, to restore civil societies, to address the lingering wounds of war while struggling to create new avenues for peace. Grant proposals should reflect an understanding of this mission. Two grants for $20,000 each will be given in this cycle.

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