NEWSFLASH: WINNERS!
The Mobile 2020 and Utopia 2020 competitions have already happened. The winners are: Phoebe Chiang and Michael Dibernardio
The original challenge
What will the mobile phone look like in the year 2020? Is it even smaller - maybe integrated with the ring on your finger? Will it be a multipurpose tool that communicates with all the other tools you own? A kind of communication central for the home, at work, in the shopping mall, at the cinema, in concert halls - in all of those environments that we inhabit?And what will the effects be on the society? Will we be more connected, more in touch with our beloved and dear or will we be overloaded with crap media, information and stressful interactions?
Two competitions
We wanted to know what people believe about the future mobile life and therefore we arranged two competitions:-
Mobile Phone 2020: design competition
Here participants submitted a design of the future mobile phone, with a description of what it will be used for and a set of drawings describing its visual appearance - in case it had one. The winner wins a 6 month employment to realise parts of the vision. Read more here. -
Utopian/Dystopian Mobile Life in 2020: a short story contest
Here a aspiring author could submit a short story that describes either an utopian or dystopian prospect of the future when mobile technology is intertwined with work, various functions in the society, leisure activities, communication with others and our life. Read more here.