Chance for Students to Win €5,000 at the Design for Sustainable Cities Competition

'Design for Sustainable Cities' is an international student competition, being held by BE OPEN and Cumulus. It is open to students and graduates of all art, design, architecture, and media disciplines of universities and colleges worldwide. The competition aims to encourage the creation of innovative solutions, by younger creatives, for more sustainable cities.

The objective of 'Design for Sustainable Cities' is to recognize, showcase and promote the best design ideas and projects that embody and can advance the principles, aims, and implementation of United Nations’ Sustainable Development Goals.

Submission Categories:

Co-created Cities:

• The city is humankind’s greatest collective work of creativity. As such the city is co-creation par excellence. We come together in cities to meet, greet, exchange, and co-create. Cities are all important as fora for a critical mass of critical thinking and tangible solutions. As our urban challenges increase, we need to do our utmost to enhance and innovate how we interact, both in the physical and virtual world. We can go further in creating sustainable cities if we do so collectively. Collective action can better offer and accelerate value. Co-creation is the path to collective impact.
• Keywords: co-created, co-design, value co-creation, collective impact, interactive, bridged services and facilities, user-centered design, service design.

Sharing Cities:

• The city is based on co-existence, shared resources, shared space, shared thinking, shared respect. The sharing city goes beyond pure consumption. The sharing city is a city and society seeking to optimize resources, making the most of recycling, repurposing, retrofit, reuse of resources. The sharing city is regenerative. The sharing city is inclusive, striving to make room for everybody, striving for urban ecologies, striving for healthy balances between humankind, built environments, and natural environments. The sharing city is a caring city. The sharing city is also about sharing the intangible, sharing cultures, sharing insight and know-how, sharing responsibilities, sharing blood, sweat, and tears, sharing celebrations, sharing experiences happy, sad and sublime, sharing creative forces. This includes sharing designs. This is embracing open source. We are better when we do things together.
• Keywords: resources, recycling, repurposing, retrofit, reuse, lifecycle, circularity, optimization, increase of the utilization.

Safe and Sound Cities:

• Our sense of security is certainly being put to the test with the current COVID-19 worldwide health crisis. Some are turning their backs on cities, seeing cities as problematic places to be. But urban density is not necessarily to blame for the pandemic. We confuse social distancing with physical distancing. We need to be creative about how to be together apart, how to sustain and foster social interaction while maintaining a safe distance. We need to adapt and adopt pre-cautionary practices so that we can safely co-exist in meaningful ways. Solutions for safe and sound cities are more important than ever! To highlight this urgency, this competition includes the Safe City Prize.
• Keywords: safety, security, health, well-being, happiness, trust, social distancing, physical distancing, nudging.

Prizes:

Your individual or team submission can win:

• the Main prize of €5,000
• the Founder’s Choice prize of €3,000
• the Public Vote prize of €2,000
• the Safe City prize of €2,000

or enter the list of 50 honorary mentions and be featured in the competition’s online gallery.

Eligibility Criteria:

• The competition is open to students of art, design, architecture, and media disciplines of universities and colleges worldwide, who are pursuing either a Bachelor level or Master level program. Students that are currently enrolled in higher education institutions or students who have graduated in 2020 and/or are graduating in 2020 are eligible to participate.
• There is no limitation in the number of submissions per institution, and there is no cost to submit.
• Entries must be comprised of work that is original; individuals and/or teams must hold the Intellectual Property for their submissions and have the right to enter and publish the submitted work.

About the Competition:

“Design for Sustainable Cities” is an international student competition, being held by BE OPEN and Cumulus. It is open to students and graduates of all art, design, architecture, and media disciplines of universities and colleges worldwide. The competition aims to encourage the creation of innovative solutions, by younger creatives, for more sustainable cities.

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