Urban Ideas in Action

FT / Citi Ingenuity Awards

The FT/Citi Ingenuity Awards: Urban Ideas in Action

The awards will recognise ingenious solutions to urban challenges in the fields of education, healthcare, energy and infrastructure.

About the awards

The FT/Citi Ingenuity Awards: Urban Ideas in Action programme, supported by Citi, will recognise ingenious individuals who have developed solutions to urban challenges in the fields of education, healthcare, energy and infrastructure

Edwin Heathcote Edwin Heathcote from LIFE & ARTS

Mapping the innovative city

Edwin Heathcote, the FT’s architecture critic, examines just what makes an ingenious solution to an urban problem

Citi

Citi

The awards are supported by Citi. Citi and Citi and Arc Design, are registered trademarks of Citigroup Inc.

Insead

Insead

Insead, the business school, is the research partner for the awards

how to build a $300 house Feature of the Week from MANAGEMENT

The house that students built

A blog asking how to design a $300 house for the poor was the catalyst for a business competition

Soapbox

Entrepreneurs are only taught half the lesson

Students need to be shown how to use their abilities to build different businesses

John Rice GE From MANAGEMENT

Leaders who go the extra mile

GE’s decision to move its global HQ to Asia has given the head of its international operations John Rice plenty to write home about

From COMMENT

How to crank up America’s economic dynamo

In dynamic economies, both creation and destruction are high

From LIFE & ARTS

Market, homes for elderly and hospital vie for design award

Designs of the Year contest features strong architecture entries

From COMPANIES

Facebook plays ball with Madison Ave

Share of US online display advertising to reach 20 per cent

Maggie’s Cancer Caring Centre Edwin Heathcote from LIFE & ARTS

Building hope

Replacing soulless institutions with astonishing architecture can improve the lives of cancer patients, as exemplified by Maggie’s Cancer Caring Centres

Nathan Myhrvoid The Monday Interview from MANAGEMENT

Pioneer of patents and palates

Intellectual Ventures’ Nathan Myhrvold talks about investment and modernist cuisine

From MANAGEMENT

Design space: EzyStove

Aim was to reduce amount of wood used for cooking

From MARKETS

Brazil to launch environmental exchange

Capital seeks niche as an alternative financial centre

From BUSINESS LOCATIONS IN FRANCE 2011

Digital economy: Education produces the ‘geeks’ for dotcoms

James Boxell discovers a new generation that is shaking off France’s staid business image

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