The Universität der Künste Berlin (UdK Berlin) has established the UdK Award for Interdisciplinary Art and Science. The new biennial award features a prize of €7,500 and  invites entries that explore the overlaps between art, design and science.

The Award aims to give artists – working in the fields of media, architecture, design, music, theatre and fine arts – and scientists, the impetus and opportunity to work between the priorities of the arts or between the arts and sciences.

Artistic, scientific and technical means may be employed in the realisation of entries. Individual works and projects or project concepts are eligible for entry.

Due 31 May 2010.

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Seoul Design Fair 2010 is collaborating with designboom to hold an international design competition. The competition is calling for entries from design professionals, students, and design-enthusiasts from around the world.
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The theme for the Seoul International Design Competition is 'design for all – future technology and daily living'. The ‘design for all’ concept has been chosen with the objective of inspiring designers to increasingly pursue design production that can be shared by all, removing emotional and physical barriers by becoming an universal communicative social solution. There are three categories in which designers may submit entries – 'product for all', 'communication for all' and 'space for all'.

Submissions will be assessed by a panel of international professional designers (panelists TBA). All projects submitted should be original and not be currently in serial production.
The designs entries may not be marked with any form of identification (name, logo…) entries will be disqualified under these terms.

The jury will award designs and concepts which are innovative in terms of their formal/technological aspects as well as their social relevance. Please don't send in vague concepts, but go a step further.

There are several lucrative prizes on offer in this competition:

– Golden haechi prize: One winner to receive USD $10,000.
– Silver haechi prize: Three winners to receive USD $2,000 each.
– Bronze haechi prize: Five winners to receive USD $1,000 each.
– Iron haechi prize: A maximum of ten winners to recieve USD $500 each.
– Honorable mention: Up to two hundred people will receive this certification.
– People's choice awards: Twenty winners will be awarded this certification.

Application registration is open until 13 July 2010.

The winning submissions will be exhibited during the exhibition period of the Seoul Design Fair 2010, 17 September to 7 October 2010 and will be published online on the designboom website.

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Design21, the social design network, is holding a competition that challenges designers to design a game that aims to create change by improving lives or inspiring new behaviours.

A crisis can bring about change. It forces us to rethink our lives and our relationships and lead us to adopt new outlooks or rethink the way we do things. While the world has been rocked by a deep recession, many have seen the flip-side of this crisis as one of opportunity; the chance to start over, or reset priorities, to take initiative to create some positive and meaningful change in their lives, big or small.

The goal of this competition is to come up with the idea and design for a game that can improve lives or inspire new behaviors, whether personally, professionally or communally, to create change.

The game could teach an individual or a group new life skills or propose a more sustainable way of living, working or interacting either at home or in our community. It does not have to operate on a grand scale. Small is also welcome. The objective and spirit of the game should be to inspire or create positive change.
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It can be a digital or online game, or take the form of a traditional board game, or simply be an activity that is interactive (like charades, for example). It can be designed for one, two or more 'players'. But it must be a game and that also means involving an element of fun.

Your game must be clearly explained with images and words (not words alone).

In addition to the general judging criteria of overall effectiveness, creativity, practicality and aesthetics, which apply across all Design21 competitions, the judges for this competition will be looking for the quality of the idea and how well it responds to the brief.

The first prize winner will receive USD$2,000 and the second prize winner, USD $1,000.

Applications due 11 May 2010.

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Entries are currently being accepted for the International Lace Award. Entrants compete to win a share of AUD$40,000 in prize money and for other exciting opportunities.

One of the aims of the award is to challenge conventional notions of lace and its applications, consequently for this award the Powerhouse Museum defines lace as ‘An openwork structure in which the pattern of spaces is as important as the solid areas.’

Using the above definition as inspiration, entrants are invited to create an original work in lace that can be worn or used in the built environment or interprets lace in digital multimedia.

Expressions of interest due 29 March 2010.

For more information and to enter visit here.

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