UNFUSE is announcing that the submissions to Urban Meal mine challenge are now open. This competition is targeting designers who wish to contribute to the food industry in a positive and innovative way. The Food is one of the most fundamental elements of human existence, but mass consumerism through supermarkets is slowly changing how humans perceive, acquire and consume food, which eventually has raised issues like overconsumption, poor quality, high wastage and an over-dependence on manufacturing agencies. The UNFUSE design challenge is to bring farming to the city where people can see, participate, indulge and involve themselves in understanding how the food they eat is actually made. The space or the urban meal mine that designers have worked on must be in the core city, which implies being a revenue oriented business and has to leverage profits by inducing modern equipment and machinery. Your objective is to design a place where skills and crafts related to food which was once handed down through generations, can be created again. You must work on an intervention which lets people learn how to prepare and grow their own meals effortlessly, using technologies of today.
To be eligible to participate, you must fulfill the following:
[1] The competition is open to all students and professionals from all over the globe.
[2] Minimum eligible age for participation is 18 years.
[3] Team size is a maximum of 4 members per team.
[4] All disciplines are eligible to participate.
[5] Team: Teams with all student participants will be categorized under student teams.
[6] Teams with even one professional participant will be categorized under professional team.
[7] The submission of the entry has to happen on the submission portal at uni.xyz only with the format given on the website. In order to avoid last minute rush, plan and try uploading your entries prior to the submission deadline.
Winners will receive the following according to their place and category:
[1] 1st Prize is a reward of 1500$, trophy, certificate and publication.
[2] 2 Runner-ups will receive 750$ Cash, trophy, certificate, and publication.
[3] People's choice is a reward for 500$, trophy, certificate, publication to 1 Professional and 1 Student.
[4] 10 Honorable mentions will receive a medal, certificate and a biannual digest of UNFUSE (For four students and six professionals).
[5] All medal holders and winners will get an elaborate section of publishing in the UNFUSE 2019 design book, and on the partner websites of UNFUSE.
About UNFUSE:
UNFUSE Serves as a unit block for UNI (A collaborative community of creative people) in the field of Architecture. It intends to break the fusion of traditional design barriers and methodologies by making it a platform for experimentation and conceptual exchange of ideas in architecture, urbanism, society, culture, and ecology. It is a research initiative dedicated to providing opportunities for designers from all domains to explore ideas that go beyond the boundaries of architectural discipline and enrich worlds built environment; thereby opening up possibilities for promotion of architectural thought at a global level. Through open ideas competitions at UNFUSE focus to create a new narrative to the design stories, a platform where participants have full freedom to redefine the design and story of its evolution.
