We would like to announce the exciting news that a group of students from the Industrial Design and Environmental Design programs have been selected as finalists in the 2021 international Student Service Design Challenge! These students have worked very hard for 5 months to produce a service solution that answered this year’s brief: to design a service that addressed current reverse logistic/circularity issues while actively and willingly engaging the users of that service. Congratulations to Jennifer An (INDS), Scott Do (INDS), Mary Chauvin (INDS), Rachel Morris (ENVR), and Samira Nassiri (INDS)! You can read more about the competition here, and see the OCAD U team featured here.
The winners announcement event will take place as part of the Barcelona Design Week on Friday June 11th from 11:00am-12:30pm EDT. The event will feature a keynote by Chris Grantham, Executive Director Circular Economy at IDEO, as well as a discussion with all the members of the jury, followed by the announcement of the 1st, 2nd and 3rd place winners and a virtual chat between them and Robert Metzke, Head of Sustainability at Philips.
Please register for the event here and show your support for our students!
Best Wishes,
The Design Office