Future of Money Design Award 2017

Running since

and created to develop links between the financial industry and creative practitioners from around the world, this year the

invites artists and designers to imagine a counterfactual scenario from the history of money that reimagines how money could have developed if things had gone differently.

What if

had died before writing his observations of the ancient Greek currency system, would

's money free utopias have become more influential? How might electronic payments evolved, if western union had not successfully created a monopoly surrounding the telegraph? Or in the context of tracked electronic payments, would it have been better if the cash like digital wallets from the 90's like Mondex or Visa cash, became the standard? Or what if the financial crash of

never happened, what would have become of Bitcoin and the blockchain?

The competition will run in

:

• Submit an overview of your initial concept. Preferred format is PDF. Maximum 3 pages communicating the concept and examples of previous work (

).

• Shortlisted entrants will receive 500 GBP (

) each to develop their idea and produce a short video. The videos and concepts will be presented at Consult Hyperion's

, which takes place on the

.

.