Henrik Otto, Senior Vice President of Global Design at Electrolux, is guest editor of the design blog ‘Despoke’, throughout the month of September. Henrik will post a series of commentaries about design and in particular provide his views on: Sustainability; Compact Living; Technology and Individualisation.

Read Henrik’s posts and visit Despoke design.

Eight Electrolux Design Lab finalists offer future living solutions.
The 2010 edition of the Electrolux Design Lab competition focuses on creative solutions for compact living. The 2010 brief asked industrial design students to consider how people will prepare and store food, wash clothes, and do dishes in the homes of 2050, when 74%* of the global population are predicted to live in an urban environment. You can check out the eight finalists in the animation below and a description and image of each concept is presented lower down the page.

Imagery and a description of each concept in detail follows below.

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