Better Living Challenge Update

The objective of the 110% Green’s Better Living Challenge is improve living conditions, especially in low-income households, by facilitating the concept-to-market value chain for home improvement products and services.

The Challenge

The Better Living Challenge will go beyond focusing on product and service design to include promotion, education, user testing and financial packages. This is to ensure that the products and services coming out of the Challenge have take-up within communities.

Companies, individuals and students will be invited to enter existing products to prototypes. Products will also be co-designed with residents through a series of co-design workshops. There are three entry categories:

1.    Structural Home

• Innovative products and materials used in the construction of homes.
• Components and systems for self-built homes.
• Systems that allow for incremental expansion by adding bulk to an existing footprint in an affordable way.

 2.    Comfortable Home

• Products used to create more liveable and enjoyable internal environments.
• Modular and space saving furniture ranges.
• Products that enhance temperature control, or work to create light, energy and water efficiency.
• Products that address fire risk, work to internal air and moisture quality.

 3.    Connected Home

• Products that connect a home to its surroundings and beyond, digitally or physically.
• Products that connect a home to the physical environment, including food production and waste water systems.

For more information contact Gillian Benjamin gillian.benjamin@ccdi.org.za 021 461 1488

Image Courtesy of Tsai Design Studio