“Design’s purpose is to improve lives,” explained this year’s jury chair Mikal Hallstrup of the design industry’s Index Awards. “It’s not about tea cups or fancy chairs.” Organized by a non-profit organization based in Copenhagen, Denmark, a city looking to its architects and designers for solutions to become the world’s first carbon neutral city by 2025, the Index Awards posits to be the “the most important award and largest prize” in the design industry. Bestowing…
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