Kohler Design Award

THEME - GRACIOUSLY LIVING WITH VARIED ABILITIES
YOU are the designer of the future & your aim is to create a bathroom, no matter your age and your abilities that can follow you through your entire life.  A gracious looking bathroom even if featuring all the elements to help you to use this space no matter your abilities.....a bathroom that does not look like a hospital room!   

PRIZE
First Prize $5,000 cash prize OR a week-long trip to Kohler's Shanghai Design Hub and $2,000 cash. 
Runner up $3,000 cash prize OR a week-long trip to Kohler's Shanghai Design Hub

INSPIRATION INSIGHTS
The format of the design proposal should be a complete bathroom, but you can focus on one or more elements of the bathroom (basin, bath, tap, vanity, toilet etc.) within the design if you wish.  However, this must be shown in the context - what will the bathroom look like that includes this product?

PARTICIPANTS
The contest is open to young design, product, spatial and architect students from AUT, Unitec, Massey, Victoria or Otago only.  Entries can be made by individuals OR groups (no more than 2 in a group).  Kohler associates and qualified professionals may not compete.

ENTRY INFORMATION 
A dimensional plan should be included with illustrations of how the bathroom would look, feel and perform within the house, along with up to 800 words on the reasoning behind the ideas.  This might be a written summary and/or combined with annotated designs showing the functionality and performance of each element. 

The project must be submitted to stephanie.mazey@kohler.com in one PDF file (maximum size of the file 12MG and include the title of the project & students name and school

Entries close 17th November at 4pm.  Strictly no entries received after that time. 

Winners will be announced early December 2023. 

INTELLECTUAL AND INDUSTRIAL PROPERTY RIGHTS
Participants in the contest guarantee to KOHLER originality of their respective proposals and that each of them enjoy the unhindered exercise of the intellectual and property rights over their respective proposals.

All intellectual property rights, as well as possible industrial property rights over the projects submitted, belong exclusively to their authors.  Participants are responsible for the protection of their design submissions by copyright or patent application, prior to submitting them to the competition. 

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