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Deadline for Submissions: The 2003 competition has been canceled. Pease check with us next year regarding a possible 2004 competition.
The American
Society on Aging (ASA) announces its annual competition to acknowledge
and reward outstanding design solutions for an aging population. By honoring
exceptional examples of student and professional universal design, this
ASA competition promotes the concept that good design is useful, usable
and appealing to people of all ages and abilities. The competition is
endorsed by the Industrial
Designers Society of America.
Two of
ASA ’s constituent groups, the Business
Forum on Aging ( BFA) and the Network
on Environments, Services and Technologies for Maximizing Independence
(NEST), are cosponsoring the competition. BFA focuses on issues of
aging as they affect the business environment. NEST's charter is to find
solutions that maximize functionality and promote independence for the
elder population.
Eligible Products
Any consumer product
including, but not limited to, appliances, personal hygiene accessories,
recreational or entertainment equipment, assistive devices, furnishings,
fixtures, and other equipment or devices is eligible for entry. Professional
products may be commercially available, and student entries may be in
concept or prototype form.
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The competition
is open to graduate and undergraduate students, individual professional
designers, and corporate manufacturers. Concept products should be entered
in the professional designer category, and products that are commercially
available will be evaluated in the corporate manufacturer category.
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Judging Criteria
Product entries
will be juried by a panel of acclaimed universal design experts, who
will judge products on universality of design, aesthetics and presentation.
A product demonstrating
features of universal design
- is useful and
marketable to people with diverse abilities (unless purposefully designed
to compensate for specific limitations),
- accommodates
a wide range of individual preferences,
- is easy to use
and understand, regardless of the user's experience or language,
- communicates
necessary information for effective use regardless of ambient conditions
or the user's sensory abilities,
- minimizes the
hazards and adverse consequences of accidental misuse,
- can be used
efficiently and comfortably with minimum fatigue, and
- has appropriate
size and space for approach, reach, manipulation and use regardless
of the user's body size, posture or mobility.
The aesthetics
of a product are judged according to form and appearance. Product presentation
will be evaluated on the basis of physical representation as well as the
written description of the entry. A physical, 3-dimensional product sample,
model or prototype is therefore strongly recommended. Universality
of design, aesthetics, and presentation will be weighted equally in
the evaluation process.
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Fee requirements are
as follows:
| Corporate manufacturers |
$500.00 |
| Individual
professional designers |
$100.00 |
| Students |
No
fee |
Entries must be
postmarked on or before December 15, 2001.
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Application Forms
Please note that
the application forms are provided in Adobe pdf format and Microsoft Word format. ProMatura
for a hard copy of the form.
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Student form - to credit a student for the products entered
PDF | WORD
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Professional Designer form - to credit individual designers for the products entered
PDF | WORD
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Corporate form - to credit a company for the products entered
PDF | WORD
Margaret Wylde
ASA Design Competition, c/o ProMatura Group LLC
142 Highway 30
Oxford, MS 38655
(800)201-1483
or (662)234-0158
e-mail: mwylde@promatura.com
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The ASA Universal
Design Competition is endorsed by the Industrial Designers Society of
America.
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