Climate Action Challenge asks designers for proposals to tackle climate change

Autodesk Foundation and IKEA Foundation have teamed up with What Design Can Do to launch the Climate Action Challenge, a competition inviting designers to come up with proposals responding to climate change. The Climate Action Challenge is a global design competition calling on designers to find solutions that help people adapt to climate change. It was launched at the What Design Can Do (WDCD) conference in Amsterdam in May, for which Dezeen is media partner. “The theme of our conference this year is climate change,“ explains WDCD founder Richard Van Der Laken, in a movie produced by Dezeen for Autodesk. “We are launching the Climate Action Challenge, inviting designers from the whole wide world to come up with proposals around climate change.“ The winners will be selected by an international jury to share an award package worth €900,000, which includes a production budget and an acceleration programme that will assist designers in developing their proposals. Read more on Dezeen: