INDEX baby at Carnegie Mellon project launched 06/19/2026. For more detail see link. The INDEX Project: Design To Improve Life, digital archives were donated to Carnegie Mellon University in 2024 by Arnold S. Wasserman, a founder and Chairman of INDEX and a CMU School of Design Graduate.
The INDEX Project, Design To Improve Life, was born as a foundation in 2002, tasked with running a large-scale design award to further brand Denmark as a progressive design nation. The INDEX Project design awards ran on a biennial cadence from 2005 to 2023, for the award winners, see here.
The INDEX Project, at its peak, had four parts:
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Below are some resources for you to begin your INDEX learning journey:
https://bigpicture.alesandro.dk
provides a way to navigate all the INDEX award winners and nominees. Missing are the images and movies of the awards.
https://artsandculture.google.com/partner/index-design-to-improve-life
provides a lot of content related to INDEX that can be used to create
https://www.youtube.com/@TheIndexProject/videos
Contains 345 videos that can provide interesting information for people interested in the INDEX project. See Wikipedia page to do list below.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Index_Project
It lists the 2005-2021 award winners.
https://www.instagram.com/designtoimprovelife
TO DO:
- For each year 2005-2023 add the INDEX award Nominees.
- For each year, add the Jury composition: chairs and members.
- For each award winner create a linked Wikipedia page that describes the project briefly.
- For each nominee, create a Wikipedia page.
- Connect each jury member to their personal Wikipedia page if available.
- Connect each award winner with YouTube videos if available.
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