The Designing for Digital Thriving Challenge is Live!
October 5, 2022
To learn more about the challenge and submit your designs please visit openideo.com.
The Joan Ganz Cooney Center is excited to join forces with Riot Games, IDEO, and the Fair Play Alliance to announce the “The Designing for Digital Thriving Challenge.” Co-hosted by Riot and IDEO, the Challenge is inspired by the work that the Fair Play Alliance (FPA) and the Cooney Center are doing to establish “Digital Thriving,” a field-initiated approach to building healthy interactions and resilient communities in online game spaces.
The FPA and Joan Ganz Cooney Center define digital thriving as the outcome of online spaces intentionally designed to foster feelings of well-being, accomplishment, and belonging, and meaningful relationships in individuals, groups, and communities. We know the digital future will be a collective experience for all of us – including children – and it’s something that we must build together.
FPA, founded in 2017, is a cross-industry initiative of over 250 gaming companies around the world, including Riot, working together to encourage healthy communities and player interactions. Riot’s Weszt Hart has been a key driver of the digital thriving work along with Kimberly Voll (Brace Yourself Games) who co-founded FPA, and Natasha Miller (Activision Blizzard). The Cooney Center is thrilled to work with this coalition of creative and innovative leaders.
We are all driven by a mission to create digital spaces that are not only safe, but intentionally foster positive outcomes for all of us. More info about the Designing for Digital Thriving project can be found on FPA’s website.
Opening the Challenge of Innovation to Everyone
Over the course of the last 11 years, IDEO has run over 70 Challenges with partners who feel passionate about creating positive impact in our world. Designing for digital thriving is uncharted territory, which is why Riot, FPA and the Cooney Center are teaming up with IDEO to invite diverse perspectives and catalyze new ideas that can help build and sustain flourishing, thriving online spaces.
The “Designing for Digital Thriving Challenge” is open to academics, community managers, educators, designers, developers, innovators, parents, researchers, students, and all other individuals who are committed to designing for digital spaces. Participants from all over the world will be able to draw inspiration from three topic areas when creating their innovations and designs: “Designing for Marginalized Voices,” “Fostering Healthy and Resilient Digital Spaces,” and “Building a Future for Kids and Families.”
The winning submissions will receive funding and support from IDEO and Riot Games to help implement their ideas in hopes of establishing digital thriving as a high watermark for the industry as a whole. Winners will be announced in late November 2022. To learn more about the challenge and submit your designs please visit openideo.com.
