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Rikrea
Registration: October 1, 2005
From competition... to a business enterprise
Recycling Competition
A business enterprise needs your help to be born
Our aim is to give birth to a new model enterprise with the participation of institutions, social cooperatives and the private sector.
Theme
The First Rikrea biennial competition refers to objects to be produced in series from recovered and recycled materials (coming from wastes and secondary raw materials). Our objective is to elaborate a big catalog of design products that must meet ecological requirements as well as sustainability, durability and universality criteria.
Type
It is an open competition. Eligible candidates include all professional and student designers as well as any person capable to conceive innovative design works. Candidates may participate either individually or by groups. Persons related to the Members of the jury and/or the organizers cannot participate in the contest.
Conditions
People wishing to participate individually or by groups shall present creative models (aesthetic, functional and when possible prototype works) with a descriptive card of the product. Candidates will register by completing and sending the competition form available on the internet site. Each group or individual competitor may enter only one project or one line of products.
Selection criteria
As already mentioned we solicit creative works that must be:
- Made of materials, objects or components coming from waste or separately collected fractions of the conventional cycle;
- Durable;
- Sustainable within the whole process from production to post-consumption;
- Potentially commercial;
- Made o waste materials available in enough quantities for mass production. They shall not belong to the category of unique work of art.
Commercial Sectors
The commercial sectors are defined only by the universality of the product and its use in everyday life (domestic area, daily trips, leisure time, etc.).
Awards
The first-place winner will receive 2000 euro; second-place and the third-place winner will receive 750 euro each. The five best works will be exposed at the Fiera di Milano on April 2006 and published in specialized magazines; designers will receive a production offer, with royalties, for the products to be included in the Rikrea catalog; they will also have the possibility of doing an internship in the companies that support this initiative.
Submission of dates
Works must be received by 12 a.m. on Saturday the 1st of October 2005
Motto
Each Projects must include a distinguishing motto inherent to the project. Competitor(s) name and address, and a picture of the object must be attached in a sealed envelop identified with the motto.
Composition of the Jury
The members of the jury (7) have been selected for their expertise on sustainability and on industrial products. The jury will officially announce the result within October 29 2005.
Contact Information
Contest headquarters: Roma, via del Leone 13, Italy
Responsible of the project: Guido Lanci
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Rikrea express its sincere thanks to the sponsors: Kami-Fabbrica di Idee and the social cooperative Zingari 59
Source: Rikrea
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