2005荷兰健身产品国际青年设计师设计比赛
[主题]
The concept of pleasure is broad. In fitness experiences today, pleasure is pushing your physical limit, steaming out the stress, makes you beat yourself or your opponent. When it comes to wellness, pleasure is reaching a mental, physical and psychological balance, which gives energy, strength and self-confidence in everyday life.
Wellness is the core of Technogym’s vision and mission: the Wellness Company.
DPPI05 and Technogym challenge you to add new dimensions of pleasure in physical exercise to achieve your vision on wellness. Starting from the state of the art of cardiovascular and strength fitness machines, design a new vision of the equipment and the fitness environment through innovative shape and interaction. After the high tech era in which complicated interfaces and robotlike fitness machines ruled the world of fitness, we are getting closer to a new sensibility. Leaving the user in control and adding a human touch to the equipment is the new philosophy that we want you to explore, while creating pleasurable points of contacts between user and equipment.
This is a call for non-conventional designers who can improve the fitness and wellness experience by pushing it beyond the limit of a pure physical activity.
A jury composed of prominent representatives of industry, design research and philosophy will judge your work. For every project the following issues will be taken into account:
· The coherence with Technogym’s mission statement (′to improve health, fitness and quality of life through physical exercise′)
· The strength of the concept supporting the design. How is it substantiated? What is the new message to the world of product design?
Of course the topic is complex, highly subjective and hard to evaluate. Design always is. This is why we give the opportunity to comment on and discuss the submitted proposals. The jury will select the best 10 submissions and their designers will be invited to attend the conference and to present their work to all conference attendees. A plenary discussion led by the jury will follow. The jury will select and announce the three winners after the discussion.
[赞助商]
Technogym, the Wellness Company
Technogym? was established in 1983 by Nerio Alessandri. A market leader in the fitness and biomedical rehabilitation equipment fields, its growth has been made possible by a steady investment in: Research and Development, Product Innovation & Training.
Technogym Figures
· Employs about 950 employees in Italy and abroad, whose average age is 29.
· Has 9 subsidiaries in the US, Great Britain, Germany, Benelux, France, Spain, Switzerland, Asia and Japan.
· Exports to over 60 countries worldwide.
· Its products have been chosen by over 30,000 Fitness Centres and 20,000 private homes worldwide.
· Official Supplier at Sydney 2000 and Athens 2004 Olympics and Paralimpics Games.
· Official Supplier at Turin 2006 Winter Olympics Games.
Mission
“We create design and manufacture what is needed to improve health, fitness and the quality of life through physical exercise”
[比赛规则]
资格：
The competition is open to all the students or young designers born after 1st January 1977.
The participation is open to singles and groups. Groups have to be composed by max. three persons, but one person only must be registered and designated as the team leader.
By registering in the competition, the participants automatically grant the authorization to use their personal data for all phases concerning and pertaining to the procedures of the competition.
时间：
Registrations will be accepted starting from 1st May 2005 and till 1st June 2005.
The projects for entering the competition must be sent starting from 1st May 2005 and within 1st June 2005, by 12:00 a.m. GMT + 1h, (Amsterdam, Berlin, Rome, Stokholm time) and not later.
参赛方式：
Registration have to be one directly at the web-page of the portal www.wellness.tue.nl filling in an ONLINE FORM. You will be assigned a username and a password that you will use to upload the competition material. Every project will be named with a 5 digit numerical code randomly and unambiguously generated for every submitted project. Not even the author of the project will know this numerical code. The jury members will review the projects, following these codes, and will rate them. For this reason we require the images and the text do not contain any references to the identity of their authors.
Each project must be an original work by the designer and it shall not breach any third parties’ intellectual property rights, or any third parties’ rights of use and economic/commercial exploitation.
The projects for entering the competition must be sent exclusively on line by means of the up-load (using one’s login and password) in the web page www.wellness.tue.nl.
作品规格：
The projects files must comply with the following requirements:
· The submission should have a maximum of 800 words of text. Use the online form to compose your submission. The official language is English.
· Images must be in jpg format with the minimal measurements of 800 (width) x 600 (height) pixels and maximum 1280 x 1024 pixels.
· The images have to be minimum 3, maximum 6.
· When a movie is included, it should be a Quicktime file with mp4 compression. Maximum file size 10 MB, frame size maximum 768 x 576 pixels. The movie should be playable with the standard Quicktime Player 6.5, available at www.quicktime.com
· Each participant can send by means of a single up-load more than one design proposal, but it is not possible to submit more than 10 images overall.
· The description must contain the title of the project/projects, and must not contain any reference to the identity of the designers.
If the proposed project is chosen as finalist, the organizing committee will send to the designer a communication by e-mail or will phone him/her. The designer must answer to the above-mentioned communication before and not later than 10 days from the date of sending of the nomination communication message to accept to participate to the conference and present his/her project. If such communication will not be done penalty is the exclusion from the classification. The organizing committee considers as valid only the e-mail address and the telephone number given at the moment of registration (in case of changes, kindly inform us specifying your name and surname sending an e-mail to Competition_dppi05@tue.nl.) Therefore it is very important to check that all the given data are complete, correct and valid at least 5 months.
When the nominations will be communicated, the 10 nominated designers will have to produce more detailed material. This material will be used for the exposition that will take place during the DPPI conference. Models and working prototypes will be welcome.
Designers may send such images and other possible material requested via e-mail or, using a CD Rom or via normal mail.
If the Designer does not observe one or more points of the present Competition Guidelines, the designer will not be admitted to the International DPPI Competition or will be immediately excluded. Names of selected designers (winners) will be published in the site www.wellness.tue.nl.
Technogym shall have the first right to request negotiations according to reasonableness and equity for collaboration agreement with one or more of the competitors in the DPPI’05 competition; under the strictest confidentiality commitment and under the agreement with the competitor, Technogym? may start to exploit designs submitted in the competition also before the nomination of the 10 finalists. The participants will always be guaranteed the intellectual ownership of the elaborated project ideas, in compliance with the copyright law in force.
奖项：
Total money prize is 3500 Euro, 3 awards divided as follows:
1st Prize – 2000� (taxes, duties and withholding tax, as by law, included)
2nd Prize – 1000� (taxes, duties and withholding tax, as by law, included)
3rd Prize – 500� (taxes, duties and withholding tax, as by law, included)
10 projects will be chosen within June 2005 and the nominees will be requested to prepare material for the exposition (October 2005).
These 10 students will be invited (travel costs included) to participate at the DPPI conference and to present their work in that occasion. Three of them will be nominated winners (1st, 2nd, 3rd place). In case of groups, their team leader is the person that will be invited to attend the conference (travel costs included); the other members can attend the conference for free as well, but will have take care of the trip costs.
Prize-giving ceremony will be organized within the DPPI conference in Eindhoven, October 2005.
The best 10 projects will be exhibited during this event at Philips High Tech Campus.
In 2006 Technogym will organize an event in which the winning projects will be presented to the press, together with a catalogue of a broad selection among the submitted projects.
日程：
ENTRIES: 1st May 2005 – 1st June 2005
PROJECTS DELIVERY: from 1st May 2005 and until 1st June 2005 - h. 12:00 a.m. GMT + 1h, (Amsterdam, Berlin, Rome, Stocholm time).
NOMINATIONS ANNOUNCEMENT: 24th June 2005
WINNERS ANNOUNCEMENT: 27th October 2005, during the DPPI conference at the Philips High Tech Campus in Eindhoven, the Netherlands
PRIZE GIVING CEREMONY: idem
[组委会]
Kees Overbeeke, psychologist and professor of Industrial Design.
Philip Ross, design researcher
Ambra Trotto, architect and designer.
[更多详细资料]
http://www.wellness.tue.nl/
