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Web Design Challenge - Being Heard
Being Heard is the winning site of the Web Design Challenge, a competition aimed at finding the web designers of the future, and to build the first ever political website for young people, by young people.
Link: www.beingheard.org.uk
The Web Design Challenge offered a unique opportunity for Key Stage 3 pupils in schools across England to develop personal, ICT, creative, literacy and design skills. Drawing on key agendas within the citizenship curriculum the project provided a space for young people to engage with contemporary issues via technologies that appealed to their interests and empowered their voice.
The first phase of Web Design Challenge invited young people to design their own web pages around a citizenship-related issue of their choosing. Content submitted spanned the environment and ecology, the criminal justice system, politics and religion. A panel of new media and design professionals judged the final web designs, and winning entries were awarded laptops, games consoles and other design resources.
The 200 shortlisted participants were invited to participate in a master class session with top UK web designers. Workshops took place at Urbis in Manchester, the Baltic Centre for Contemporary Art in Gateshead, the Watershed in Bristol and the Design Museum in London. Loaded with a host of new skills and inspiration, participants were challenged to design a professional web site under the title Being Heard.
The competition concluded in June 2005 when the students who produced the five shortlisted designs were invited to a prize-giving celebration at the Design Museum, London. The winning design was selected by a panel of experts including Danny Brown, Designer of the Year 2004, and Alice Rawsthorn, Director of the Design Museum.
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