Imagining Recovery: Toward A Design Economy

IMAGINING RECOVERY is an open international design ideas competition coinciding with the first 100 days of the Obama presidency.

The competition calls on designers to act as mediators between policy and the public by producing an image of the lived experience of recovery, increasing the transparency and intelligibility of the charts, maps and graphics of Recovery.gov. This image is to be supported by a design strategy offering a means to get from the present to recovery.

The competition brief is a living document, collectively written by the design participants and a select panel of public policy students from prestigious policy schools around the world. The forum is active from Day 45-55, March 5-15, and is available at www.imaginingrecovery.com/policy-forum.

Submissions are due on the 100th day of the presidency, April 29, and will be judged by a world-class panel of design and image experts, who will select prize winners and address the public in an open discussion at Studio X in New York on May 13.

The competition will be distributed to the public through a print publication, a placement in Volume Magazine, and a traveling video exhibition, all available for free online download. The exhibition currently has installation commitments in the US, Beijing, and Amman, Jordan.

This competition is organized by labRAD, in collaboration with C-LAB, SIPA, the Global Public Policy Network and The Morningside Post.
www.imaginingrecovery.com