Nomination Brief
We are looking for nominations that highlight breakthrough design solutions with the power and potential to improve our lives and the world. These designs may improve the human spirit, increase awareness of the environment, or respond to areas of need in the world, whether to provide shelter and clean water or address climate change and humanitarian crises.
Video by: Chris Gray Austin
Design means: – encompassing architecture, urban planning, product, landscape, graphic, interior, and industrial design – although we invite new definitions that defy this traditional definition.
Here are the criteria:
• AN EMERGING, BREAKTHROUGH DESIGN
• IMPROVES LIVES AND THE WORLD – SOCIAL INNOVATION
• SINGLE PROJECT, PRODUCT OR BUILDING
• REPLICABLE
• EXISTING PROTOTYPE MODEL OR COMPLETED PROJECT SINCE 2006
Some Questions to Resolve
Anyone can enter a project. In researching prospective projects please provide enough information to answer fully the following questions:
1. Are we considering a group of projects or a single project?
2. What is the humanitarian mission/aspect of the project that should be highlighted/considered?
3. Is the project in use by people and benefiting their lives? Or is it still in the development/prototype phase? If so how many people has it impacted? If not, why do you think it has merit?
4. Is this an emerging project or has it emerged? In researching please provide information on whether the project has received ample funding, has been widely publicized and where, whether it has received awards or honors, whether it has been successfully commercialized, whether it has been recognized and/or replicated by peers.
5. Is this a project that will result in a specific building or product or is it a process/strategy that will result in a specific outcome towards a social goal? Provide detailed information on the final product/building or outcome resulting from the design.
6. What is the structure of the project? Is it a commercial project making social impact or a socially motivated project that may or may not have a commercial element
7. How is the project sustainable, scalable or replicable?
Instructions
Step 1: Create a new nomination project
Select the 'Enter Now' tab at the top of the page. Login or register, then click on 'Create an Entry.' A template entry will be created.
Step 2: Update the Project Description
Click on the 'Edit' button in the upper left-hand corner of your nomination entry. Use this to edit information about the project as indicated (ie: project name, project description, and other project details.) Please fill out as much as know and provide source information wherever possible.
Please delete any placeholder text. When you have finished select the 'Submit' button at the bottom of the page.
Step 3: Upload Images
Select the 'Files' tab at the top of the page. Here you can upload any images or additional documents. When uploading images make sure to check the "Add Files to Slide show" check box, this ensures the image is displayed on the overview page along with the text you entered in step 2. Be sure to add credit and/or source information.
One note: Please do not rename images you find online (this makes it easier to track them at a later stage, when clearing rights) and always provide a source or credit for images and background information.
Fair Use
As it applies to text, fair use is generally considered to be any text (even 100%) taken from a press release OR any (2), 200 word excerpts (for a total of 400 words, but no more than 200 words per instance) taken from from a single source (article, website page, etc) for educational purposes and knowledge sources. A good question to ask yourself is: how much of the piece did you take? Try to keep it to 20-30% … otherwise paraphrase. The fair use exercise is partly mind and partly heart. Ask yourself: are you infringing on this person’s copyright OR are you using an excerpt to explain their point of view and lead people to them? As you follow fair use guidelines, remember to ALWAYS use quotes and attribute everything. Cite sources in the footnotes (or resources section).
If you need to share an article or report in its entirety, simply link to it.
Feel free to link to videos on YouTube - they are public.
LINKS
Check out the "Crash Course in Copyright" by the University of Texas at Austin explaining fair use and the "four factor test": http://www.utsystem.edu/OGC/intellectualProperty/copypol2.htm#test
Also, take a look at the University of Minnesota fair use printable, PDF worksheet (great resource to help evaluate and weigh fair use): http://www.lib.umn.edu/copyright/FU-checklist.pdf
PRESS RELEASE PACKAGES
Any press release, in its entirety, falls under fair use.
BLOG IMAGES
Open the image in the browser by itself. This will give you the name of the image. Then search for the original source for the image … or contact the blog itself. If you do not have time for this, simply make a note of the image title and source and do not rename the image - this will facilitate a future release of permissions.
Creative Commons
Creative Commons is a non-profit organization transforming the creative landscape by offering a free licensing system that allows authors, artists, scientists, etc to amend their work license from the traditional copyright ("all rights reserved") to "some rights reserved" or other nuanced, shared distributions. There are many different types of creative commons licensing, allowing the creator to tailor the license to their need. Some things are expressly licensed for your use, for example YouTube, Flickr, and others. Always provide attribution.
LINKS
Visit the Creative Commons site: http://creativecommons.org/
Read more about Creative Commons licenses: http://creativecommons.org/about/licenses/
