RCE Grand Rapids-2014

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1. Project Title: 
Wicked Problems of Sustainability
2. Thematic area/s addressed by the project
Select your options: 
Youth
Higher Education (HE)
3. Project partner contact information : 
Organization: 
The Wege Foundation www.wegefoundation.com
Role: 
Funder
Main Contact: 
Ellen Satterlee
5. Project description
Provide a short description of the project including strategies, regional challenges, aims and specific project activities.: 

Every day, people from all over the world scour their respective fields for definitive solutions to the world’s wicked problems. But what if we stopped searching for solutions alone, and began designing them together?


What would happen if we challenged undergraduate students from around the country to work together, collaborating across institutional and disciplinary boundaries to engage in a revolutionary new kind of problem solving?


Wege Prize is a transdicsiplinary collaborative design competition that asks teams of five (representing at least two different educational institutions and at least two different fields of study) to develop a cogent solution to the following wicked problem: How can we create a circular economy?


http://www.wegefoundation.com/news/wegeprize.html

http://www.kcad.edu/news/wege-prize-2014-winners

www.wegeprize.org


6. Project status
On Going
Description: 
This competition began as a regional competition. This year we launch a national competition in preparation for the third year, international competition.
8. Tagging
Region: 
Americas
Tags (choose up to 5): 
Innovation, Infrastructure & Technology
Jobs & Economic Growth