Student Design Competition

Today’s art, design and technology students are the people who will be defining what the interdisciplinary field of interaction design will become in the near future. Create10 is a conference that celebrates innovative interaction design, whether digital products, services, environments or new interaction paradigms.
This competition is aimed at students from a wide range of disciplines, for example: interaction design, product design, industrial design, communications design, architecture, fashion, multimedia, HCI, and related fields. Students, both undergraduate and postgraduate, can enter for up to a year after completing their studies.

There will be one free conference place available for each successful entry, as well as access to assistance with travel.

Entries will be assessed by a jury of leading creative design practitioners and academics:
Dr Shaleph O’Neill, Mark Daniels, Anab Jain, Crispin Jones, Di Mainstone, Christopher Pearson

All selected submissions will be exhibited at the Create10 conference exhibition in June/July 2010 in Edinburgh, at New Media Scotland’s Inspace. As this is an interdisciplinary competition the final exhibits could take a variety of forms, from video demonstrations to fully working prototypes.

Competition brief
The conference theme of ‘transitions’ is the inspiration for this competition brief. We want to receive entries that scope, explore, define and prototype interactions that make transitions visible. These could be transitions that investigate the relationship between the analogue and digital realms, or systems that make visible transitions across time, place or information spaces.
For this competition you are asked to design an interactive artefact, interface, installation or experience. If selected, you will be invited to display your working design, or a tangible prototype, in a high profile public exhibition space, so you must consider how it may be displayed.

Initial submissions
Submissions can be made individually or as group work (max 4 participants).

Submissions should consist of:

1. An extended abstract (500 - 1,000 words) describing your design and any design principles or theories that have informed your approach to this project. You should include discussion of your research process, paying particular attention to your intended user group, whether this is a specific user or a wider group. If you are submitting as a group you should include a brief description of the roles of each member of the group.
2. Appropriate images of your work, (max 3 sheets of A4) clearly illustrating the design’s interactivity, and also your inspirations and/or research process. You may also include cross-platform digital files on disk, or online links, to support your submission.
3. An explanation (1 page A4) of how the work could be displayed in a public exhibition.
4. A completed application form, this is available to download.

All individual items should be clearly marked with your name(s), institution, course, name of your academic supervisor or tutor, and year of study.

You may submit EITHER by email or post. Email submissions should be in pdf format, no larger than 8mb in size. You may include links to web resources to illustrate your work. Postal submissions should be no larger than A4, and may include cross-platform disks. Submission details here: link

Final format
If your work is selected for display at the Create10 exhibition you will be expected to provide:

1. An A0 poster describing the development process from concept to finished project.

Plus at least one of the following:

1. A video of the project, showing it working in context.
2.A finished demonstration, or physical prototype, that can be exhibited as working at the exhibition.As this is an interdisciplinary competition this should take whatever form best demonstrates the interactivity in your work.

Conference attendance - free registration
If your work is selected for exhibition, you will be expected to attend the Create10 conference. In the case of group submission, at least one student per submission must attend. One free place will be available per submission.

Important dates
Initial submission deadline: March 31st 2010
Successful exhibitors will be notified by the end of April 2010

For further information please contact Ingi Helgason: email