index: design to improve life®

INDEX: Design to Improve Life® is a Danish NPO with global reach. We Inspire, Educate and Engage in designing sustainable solutions to global challenges. We Inspire by running the worlds largest design prize, the INDEX: Award, to show the great impact design can have on global challenges. We Educate by putting Design to Improve Life on the learning agenda. We teach students, educators and decision makers to create sustainable solutions via our certified education programs. We Engage by providing knowledge, human and financial capital to designers to help them deliver the best sustainable solutions to the market. Established in 2001, the original goal of INDEX: Design to Improve Life® was to run a traditional, large-scale design award to attract attention, tourism and investments to Denmark. However, after traveling the world for research, our two founders identified the huge potential and dire need for design to be applied to real world challenges. This is when the concept 'Design to Improve Life was born and the organisation began to focus on sustainable design that generates social, economic and environmental impact.