EVENT: Demo Festival - City Futures
Winners Announced!
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Winners Announced! ~
Are you a student or young professional from Hyderabad and Bengaluru under 30 years keen to express your ideas on city's future and imagine our urban environment in creative ways? submit a short video, song, sketch, skit, or even rap that expresses your thoughts on how our cities can be imagined...
There will also be an opportunity to shadow architects, urban designers, and urban planners at reputed institutes, professional and other organizations in public sector and private sector including internationally acclaimed and award winning practices.
ISU (https://isurban.org ) The Institute for Sustainable Urbanisation is a “Think Tank” set up to provide a platform to discuss critical urban issues and to develop innovative solutions for more liveable, walkable, resilient communities and cities. ISU has developed a Smart and Sustainable City Framework focusing on “People, Place and Planet“ with smart thinking, design and planning as the driver and technology as an enabler. ISU organises workshops and events, undertakes research and local initiatives to ensure affordable, healthy and happy cities and communities for all.
URBAN MENUS (https://urbanmenus.com/) is a novel platform for spatial development processes, combining data understanding, data crunching and visualization, modelling, critical impact analysis, and feedback options in an easy-to-use, a high-end interactive real-time app with 3D visuals. URBAN MENUS quickly displays images of the future, allows a walkthrough, and evaluates effects. Like this, URBAN MENUS allows structured and fact-based, multi-perspective considerations on the project, which improves the process, and steers it towards holistic optimization.
WINNERS
Winner - 1st place
By: MUI Lai Yee, HO Shing On, LO Tsun & YAN Guangyu
School: The Chinese University of Hong Kong (CUHK), Hong Kong
Type: Video
Topic: Imaging HK Future - The Children Voice
JURY COMMENTS:
With great creativity, the possible futures’ interventions in the city are developed on a satellite image and evaluated by a fictional child. This character is also the one who making the real existing city’s diagnosis, now as a pedestrian, transmitting sadness or joy in regards to the spaces he experiences. The proposal shows great freshness when analyzing and humanizing the most diverse scales of the city, being it buildings, streets or river banks.
Excellent graphic and propositional aptitude, displaying a refined mixture of communication techniques. The great conceptual clarity with high subtlety and sensitivity allows the message to reach the receiver gracefully and dynamically.
Winner - 2nd place
By: Billy Cheung, Christy Chu, Ivan Chiu & Jerry Wang
School: The Chinese University of Hong Kong (CUHK), Hong Kong
Type: Video
Topic: Imaging HK Future - Density
JURY COMMENTS:
With great genuineness and personality, the density of the contemporary metropolis is shown both from the anonymous spatial perception and from the artistic point of view. Both fascination and rejection serve as starting point for diagnosing the present. Various statements by the authors lead to reflect on the inevitability of high density. In order to reach sustainable development, high density must be assisted by systemic thinking and environmental integration. Intelligent mobility and artificial intelligence are considered as a possibility to optimize the use of resources democratically. The multiple perspectives shown in the video integrate the sensorial aspects of the traditional city in order to not lose identity, community spirit and sense of humor.
If a good picture is worth more than a thousand words, the good images here, accompanied by thoughtful texts and appropriate interviews, cover all topics of the contemporary theoretical discussion and propose a holistic approach to the very high density and technologization of the future
Winner - 3rd place
By: Vartika Khare
School: School of Planning and Architecture ,Vijayawada, Bengaluru , India
Type: Article
Topic: Safe & Secure Coliving Spaces
JURY COMMENTS:
Architects as scriptwriters of futures achieve in this work a great narrative level. Between the autobiography, the city’s disciplinary reading and the interpretation of the signs of the future, a set of very suggestive images for the proposed journey are transmitted. The starting point is the self in the metropolis that, due to the socio-economic situation of the youth, suggests the importance of collaboration and cooperation while Co-Living. Through a very successful narrative structure, the major problems of mobility, pollution, unemployment, etc. are presented, leading us to the proposed conclusion: understanding the city as a space for Co-Living. The proposal initiates the future by considering a street the first step toward cooperation and community collaboration.
The excellent use of language and narrative structure are comprised in a text that awakens fantasies and associations in a very sensitive way. The proposal shows the profound knowledge of the city observer with highly accurate seismographic antennae to identify what is going on in our cities behind the visible layer.
1st Runner-Up
By: Max Patel
Type: Song
Title: Adventure Awaits
JURY COMMENTS:
The competition challenged submissions to be creative in terms of the medium selected and even offered up a Rap video as an example. Two budding songwriters chose to turn their visions into music and this submission used self played acoustic guitar as accompaniment to the written composition. The medium provided a soothing melody in contrast to the usual hustle and bustle of city life and was able to evoke a state of calm and balance within a quality led vision of life inside a ‘wild and green’ city that was just waiting to be explored in all its diversity and complexity. A clear vision of equitable and sustainable living was provided throughout the narrative. The jury would have appreciated the written lyrics to have been provided to both song submissions and to have taken them to the next step by transposing the medium to video whilst adding sub-titles would have hit the nail right on the head.
2nd Runner-Up
By: CHAN Connie, CHI Ho Man & CHEN Rulin Addison
School: The Chinese University of Hong Kong (CUHK), Hong Kong
Type: Video
Topic: The Green City as a Livable City
JURY COMMENTS:
Short stories of multiple characters demonstrate very convincingly how quality of life in a city depends on many factors. The common denominator of all the stories are always human beings, our feelings and needs, from the air we breathe, the food we eat or the way we spend our free time. This respect for life is conveyed in a very sensitive and systemic way throughout the video’s narrative. The collage of images for the various themes (e.g., clean air, energy generation, intelligent mobility) shows strong systemic thinking. And this kaleidoscope of stimuli allows the development of life and happiness in a varied and inclusive way.
The very attractive images and the rhythmic music allows one to immerse in the proposal, which shows an excellent theoretical, visual, and dramaturgical handling of the complex, yet sensitively raised themes. Every detail shows both a mixture of races and cultures, as well as artistic and cultural expressions, that create invitations to dream of the future imagined by the characters.