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At INDEX: we ask the best and brightest on Earth to Design to Improve Life. – And they do.
The colon means what next. When you see INDEX: written with what has become its ubiquitous iconic punctuation, you’re receiving a nudge.
Fill in the blank, it says. Imagine what’s coming, it says. Tell us what you’re going to do to help us get there, it says.
And it says: Design to Improve Life.Kigge Hvid, CEO of INDEX:, explains, “INDEX:’s mission is to ensure more Design to Improve Life of higher quality in the world. Therefore we inspire, collect, advocate, communicate, evaluate, connect and discuss Design to Improve Life globally.”

Kigge says the organization has four main sets of instruments for its work:

  • The largest monetary design award in the world
  • Our presentations of world-touring exhibitions of Design to Improve Life
  • Our Summer Camps for design and business students
  • Conferences for public and private leaders

Created by Denmark, INDEX:Design to Improve Life is in lockstep with tenets that made Danish design famous in the last century – humanism; social understanding and democratic thinking; functionalism; craftsmanship; beauty.

“We are perhaps best-known for our biennial presentation of the world’s largest award for design,” Kigge says, “a 500,000-euro purse divided evenly among winners in five categories.

“But INDEX:Design to Improve Life is busy all year long, involved in development and innovation in educational, business and social settings, and in listening, learning, inspiring and matching our main asset – the global network of designers, users, public and private decision-makers and social investors who work with us.”

That network is buoyed on the tidal shift felt by so many today, amid world-sweeping dialogues about climate change, the global water question, the new emphasis on energy, sustainability, resource protection and, above all, the supremacy of life’s quality in a world that can always do better.

Simply put, at INDEX: we ask the best and brightest on Earth to Design to Improve Life. And they do.

Join us!

INDEX:Award A/S
Njalsgade 106, 2. floor
DK-2300 Copenhagen S
Denmark
+45 33 89 20 05
info@indexaward.dk
www.indexaward.dk