Vote now for Dr David Swann in the INDEX Design to Improve Life A
Fri, 05 Jul 2013 11:47:00 BST
Dr David Swann, Reader in Design with the School of Art, Design and Architecture, is currently in second place in the running for the People’s Choice Award for INDEX: Design to Improve Life Awards. Anyone can vote for this project and help us to gain another prestigious award for the University of Huddersfield.
Dr David Swann’s project ‘ABCs: A Behaviour Changing Syringe’ is a prototype transformative syringe designed to deter non-sterile syringe re-use in India.
The project will involve looking at the affordability, accessibility of technology, any cultural resistance and human inertia, as well as production and labour costs.
You can find out more about this and vote online here: Index Award by simply clicking on the ‘Like’ button. An individual can recast their vote every 24 hours.
These prestigious global awards inspire, educate and engage people in using design to improve life skills to develop sustainable solutions to global and local challenges.
Created by Denmark in 2002, INDEX: Design to Improve Life® is in sync with the values and principles that made Danish design widely renowned in the last century, focusing on humanism, social understanding and democratic thinking.
To find out more about INDEX visit Design to Improve Life
