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Kimball Design Hack
A Smart Furniture Design Competition
BRIEF
As the Internet of Things (IoT) and the digital transformation continues to influence both the home and the workplace, interior designers face challenges of furniture integrating these new “smart” technologies to support this transformation. To meet these challenges, Kimball is inviting you to enter our Smart Furniture DESIGN HACK.
The Kimball Design Hack is an opportunity for you to provide design concepts that will leverage technology that will allow users to be more productive, improve the overall work-life of employees by adding convenience and/or solving other typical workplace challenges.
Your design(s) (yes, you can enter more than once) should integrate materials and technology (whether known today or unknown) thereby, transforming the capability of the furniture.
Examples might include, but are not limited to, lighting, smart films, heat, vibration, motion, voice activation, sound, etc. Designers are encouraged to take into consideration submissions that could provide satisfaction, comfort, engagement, health, wellness or wellbeing.
SCHEDULE
The Competition begins on Thursday, February 1, 2018 at 12am Eastern Time (ET) and ends on Monday, April 30, 2018, 11:59 PM ET (“Competition Period”). All entries (submissions) must be received during the Competition Period, to be eligible to win.
AWARDS
The Winner will receive a 3% royalty up to $30,000 but no less than $5,000.
The winning design must be able to be mass produced, scalable and saleable. In other words, something the market wants and is willing to pay for.
FEES
There is no cost to enter.
JURY
James Cava
Head of Global Workplace Solutions
IBM
Armonk, NY
James Cava is Global Head of Workplace Solutions at IBM. He is responsible for all strategic design and construction activities across IBM’s office portfolio encompassing 80 million square feet in 102 countries. He is also responsible for IBM’s Workplace Experience standards.
Previously, James worked at Citigroup where he headed up Global Planning & Design as well as North American project management. James graduated from The Cooper Union where he received his Professional Engineering license in Mechanical Engineering.
Jennifer Fordham
Senior Project Manager
Design & Construction, Group Real Estate
WPP Group USA, Inc.
New York, NY
Jennifer Fordham is a Senior Project Manager for Design and Construction with Group Real Estate at WPP Group USA, Inc. With over 20 years of experience spanning residential architecture, commercial interiors, furniture procurement, facilities management and project management, she continuously seeks to improve upon the design and functionality of the spaces she builds and the products she uses in them.
Jennifer holds a BFA in Interior Design from Syracuse University and was recently awarded the 2017 IFMA Award for Excellence in Facilities Project Planning and Management.
Christopher Hood
Director of Consulting
Advanced Workplace Associates
London, United Kingdom
Christopher Hood is a Director at Advanced Workplace Associates in London, a boutique advisory group specializing in helping organizations though the process of workplace change. Previously, Chris served as Managing Director at CBRE and as Manager of Hewlett Packard’s Design Center.
Trained, and qualified as an Architect, Christopher has often moved outside his formal training to seek bold, innovative solutions in the field of corporate real estate. He has written articles, presented papers at major events, holds a US patent for furniture design, is a past winner of the Corenet Global Innovation Award, and is very active in a number of leading industry thought-leadership and advisory groups.
Katherine Lytle
Senior Designer
IA Interior Architects
New York, NY
Katherine Lytle is a Senior Interior Designer and an Associate in the New York office of IA Interior Architects, an exclusively interiors focused design firm with 19 locations worldwide.
Katherine has 14 years’ experience leading a diverse portfolio of local, national and global projects including Corporate Workplace, Higher Education, Civic, Institutional and Healthcare Design. Katherine’s innovative projects have been featured in multiple industry publications.
Avinash Rajagopal
Editor in Chief
Metropolis Magazine
New York, NY
Avinash Rajagopal is the editor-in-chief of Metropolis magazine. He is an expert on product and interior design in the digital age, as a historian of contemporary design as well as a frequent speaker at key industry events. He is the author of Hacking Design (Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum, 2013) and has contributed to numerous volumes on architecture and design, including Adhocracy (Istanbul Design Biennial, 2012), Making Africa (Vitra Design Museum, 2015) and Atlas of Furniture Design (Vitra Design Museum, forthcoming).
Avinash has lectured on design history and writing at the School of Visual Arts, New York; the University of Texas at Austin; and the National Institute of Design, India.
Kay Sargent
Director of WorkPlace
HOK
Washington, DC
Kay Sargent is a Senior Principal and Director of WorkPlace for Strategic Accounts at HOK, the world’s largest global architectural firm and serves on the Board of Directors. In that role Kay oversees the marketing, delivery and execution of over 65 International Master Service Accounts where the firm provides services for organizations with multiple projects in multiple locations both nationally and internationally.
Kay is considered one of the foremost thought leaders on workplace. She has worked with Fortune 500 companies on their global real estate strategies and designed workplaces of the future. She has authored multiple white papers and articles on a variety of design related topics including wellbeing; next gen workforce; go-bility; technologies impact on the workplace; space fusion and the rise of the human factor.
Mike Wagner
President
Kimball
Jasper, IN
Mike Wagner is President of Kimball. Mike joined Kimball in 2013, when he was asked to lead an extensive turnaround for one of the largest and most diversified furniture manufacturers in the world. Over the past few years, the company has emerged as a design leader, winning major awards, including the prestigious 2015 Interior Design “Best of Year” award for the industry’s largest product category.
Mike has authored articles and spoken at industry events on topics related to market innovation, workplace of the future, and platform thinking. His career spans over 20 years in the furniture industry, including past ownership of a Chicago based Independent Rep firm, as well as several key leadership positions in sales management, marketing, operations and strategic planning.
WEBSITE
http://www.metropolismag.com/Kimballhack/
