2025 Longevity Design Challenge: Reimagining Education and Learning for Long Lives

The Stanford Center on Longevity Design Challenge is a global competition that encourages students to design products and services to improve well-being across the lifespan. In its twelfth year, the Challenge is focused on reimagining education and learning for longer lives. LONGEVITY DESIGN CHALLENGE GOALS: Create well-designed, practical solutions that improve well-being across the lifespan Encourage a new generation of students to become knowledgeable about issues associated with long lives Provide promising designers with a path to drive change in the world ABOUT THE 2024-25 DESIGN CHALLENGE THEME: Reimagining Education and Learning for Long Lives To fully engage with our long lives, we must change our approach to learning and education. Rather than going to school for a fixed number of years when we’re young, the Stanford Center on Longevity’s New Map of Lifeenvisions learning new knowledge and skills throughout our lives, regardless of age. Recognizing the integral relationship between education, health, and longevity, the challenge emphasizes the importance of innovative approaches that promote cognitive, physical, and financial well-being across the lifespan. From incorporating movement into learning environments to ensuring that everyone has the skills they need for whatever changes come their way, including switching careers or dealing with new technology, there are many opportunities to broaden our understanding of learning and establish it as a lifelong pursuit. Students are invited to create solutions that expand or rethink education and learning opportunities at any age, particularly those that close opportunity gaps and ensure equitable access to educational opportunities for all, regardless of socio-economic background or age. Examples of longevity education and learning needs include (but are not limited to): Reskilling Financial literacy Pathways for non-college education Intergenerational opportunities Digital literacy Play and physical movement for children More info at: seignchallenge.stanford.edu