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January 29, 2014
Whatever Happened to the $300 House?
June 15, 2011
$300 House: Open Design Challenge Winners
What began as a challenge in a blog post on the Harvard Business Review website has resulted in a collection of 300 design submissions from around the world. The $300 House Open Design Challenge is complete, with judges picking their final selections after much deliberation, and an extension, in order to go through the entries in detail.
Winners were selected in combination with votes from
the community and a panel of judges
comprised of expert designers, architects, and thought leaders. The winners share
$25000 in total prize money which includes $10,000 in cash awards to the top 16
placements as voted by the community itself, and $15,000 in scholarships to
attend a prototyping workshop for six participants (three selected by the
community, and three by the judges panel).
The winners of the prototyping workshop scholarship are
(listed by username):
"We're delighted
by the depth and breadth of the submissions we received," says Vijay
Govindarajan, Professor of International Business and the Founding Director of
Tuck's Center for Global Leadership. "Hosting
this contest on Jovoto's open, co-creation platform gave us a wealth of ideas
and identified the people who we believe have the passion, skill, and
commitment, to take the project to the next level, prototyping and actually
building a $300 house for the poor. We invite all the participants to continue
the discussion at www.300house.com."
June 10, 2011
Our Rebuttal to the $300 House Op-Ed in the NY Times
That's the question I asked myself when I saw the op-ed they ran on the $300 House.
VG and I wrote a rebuttal - here - on the Harvard Business Review blog.
Please let us know what you think by posting your comments at HBR, underneath the rebuttal.
May 27, 2011
299 Design Ideas for the $300 House
Special thanks to the Jovoto team - Nathalie, Nadine, Peter (x2), Bastian, and Shaun at Mutopo for making this happen - without your generosity we'd never have gotten off the ground. Thanks also to Scott Tew from Ingersoll Rand for your willingness to try this experiment.
Now, let the judging begin!
February 26, 2011
The $300 House in the City: Sunil Suri on the Urban Challenge
Read all about the Urban Challenge on the Harvard Business Review blog>>
November 27, 2010
The $300 House in Harvard Business Review
The concept of the $300 House owes its genesis to the Harvard Business Review:
- The Challenge by Vijay Govindarajan and Christian Sarkar
- The Financial Challenge by David A. Smith
- The Design Challenge by Bill Gross
- The Energy Challenge by Bob Freling
- The Co-Creation Challenge by Gaurav Bhalla
- The Marketing Challenge by Seth Godin
- The Performance Challenge by Doug Smith
- The Corporate Challenge by Stephanie A. Burns
- The Sustainability Challenge by David Sands