2010 Winner (Image courtesy of competition host).

The Social, Economic, Environmental Design Network launches the 2nd Annual SEED Awards for Excellence in Public Interest Design to showcase and promote design projects that help create socially, economically and environmentally healthy communities. SEED projects:

• Advocate with those who have a limited voice in public life.
• Build structures for inclusion that engage stakeholders and allow communities to make decisions.
• Promote social equality through discourse that reflects a range of values and social identities.
• Generate ideas that grow from place and build local capacity.
• Design to help conserve resources and minimize waste.

Submit a project and compete in this international competition! Winners will receive an all expense paid trip to present at Structures for Inclusion in Austin, TX, March 24-25, 2012 and $1,000 cash prize. Winners will also be included in a documentary series by The UpTake.