Electrolux Design Lab 2010 invites global undergraduate and graduate industrial design students to create home appliances that consider shrinking domestic spaces. Your ideas will shape how people prepare and store food, wash clothes, and do dishes in the homes of 2050 when 75% of the world’s population are predicted to live in an urban environment. Growing populations living in concentrated areas dictate a need for greater space efficiency. This year, special consideration will be given to designers that submit a design within the context of a range or suite of solutions/appliances. Your design ideas should address key consumer requirements; being green, adaptive to time and space, and allowing for individualization.

Deadline: 1 May, 2010

Prizes:
1st prize: €5,000 + 6 months’ paid internship at an Electrolux global design center.

2nd prize: €3,000
3rd prize: €2,000

Please note that we are developing tools on our current platform to provide a new look in early 2010 and allow for submissions. If you have any questions at this stage then please refer to the 2009 Q&A section on this site. We will update accordingly but most of the detail governing the 2009 competition will be applicable in 2010.

Electrolux Design Lab
Design Lab is an annual global design competition open to undergraduate and graduate industrial design students who are invited to present innovative ideas for household appliances of the future.