The World Design Impact Prize is a biennial award whose objective is to elevate industrial design driven projects that are producing examples of best practices that are socially responsible and yield a positive impact on quality of life.

An initiative of the International Council of Societies of Industrial Design (Icsid), the biennial award builds on Icsid’s vision of ‘designing for a better world’, by encouraging initiatives that are pushing the boundaries of design in general and industrial design in particular by incorporating human centred research, design thinking and co-design lenses into their projects. By recognising and empowering grassroots projects that utilise emerging practices such as social entrepreneurship, micro-financing, eco-design, and designing for the bottom of the pyramid, the World Design Impact Prize stimulates discussions around design policy, reverse innovation, universal design, and designing for resilience.

For more information about the World Design Impact Prize initiative, please visit
www.worlddesignimpact.org