Design for Future Challenge

A Nationwide Design Competition Organized by

Department of Design

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in collaboration with

HCLTech, India

REWARDS

1^st Prize

Rs.
50,000
2^nd Prize

Rs.
30,000
3^rd Prize

Rs.
20,000

Along with a certificate of appreciation (their photos and school names will be shared on SNIoE social media handles).

10 Consolation Prizes of Rs. 5000

Along with a certificate of appreciation.

About Design for Future Challenge

Department of Design, Shiv Nadar University, Delhi NCR, believe that most of the wicked problems we face today can be solved by visualizing a desirable future and working towards that imagined future into reality. Every radical innovation starts with an imaginative jump from present realities to future possibilities. As a prospective dweller of a future city, the Design for Future Challenge invites you to showcase your intelligence in identifying and designing solutions for the problems and needs of a future city in the year 2050.

Problem Areas for Design for future challenge

United Nations estimated that the world population will grow from 7.6 billion to 9.8 billion by 2050. People have imagined future cities, sometimes called smart cities, to sustain such a vast population. The term 'smart' has multiple meanings, ranging from Industrial and domestic applications of Artificial intelligence and immersive Technologies like AR, VR, XR, etc., to different sustainability-related practices. As a prospective dweller of such a future city, you are invited to identify the problems and needs of a future city in the year 2050 and showcase your solution.

Imagine a future city in the year 2050. You may think of the future city-dwellers (like individuals, families, elderly, people with special needs, people from different strata of society, working class (engaged in white, blue, and black-collared jobs), students, shopkeepers, vendors, hawkers, migrated population, visitors and tourists, etc. You may think of future homes, Schools and Colleges, Hospitals, Government Offices, Municipal Bodies, Industrial Units, NGOs, Banks, Sports and Recreational Areas, Monuments and Heritage Sites, etc. You may think of the various future aspects of Society, Environment, and Economy like Healthcare, Education, Law and Order, Transportation, Power and Energy, Sanitation and Waste Disposal, Agriculture, Water Management, etc. Imagine the future city 2050 regarding some aspects mentioned above and identify one problem. Using your creativity and imagination, devise an innovative and smart solution. The outcome can be a solution concept on paper illustrating a tangible Product and/or System Design, or a Web/Mobile Application Design, or Visual Design that would address the identified problem.

A team may choose to work on any one of the following problem areas (but not limited to):

Smart Home

Smart Agriculture

Smart Transportation

Climate Smart Cities

Future of Water and Sanitation

Selection and Evaluation Criteria

There will be two rounds of assessment for selecting the final winners.

All the entries will go through the shortlisting process. Entries that do not meet the submission guidelines and specifications will be disqualified. Reproducing or copying any existing work or solution will also lead to disqualification. You need to acknowledge the source if any existing work inspired you.

In the first round, shortlisted entries will be assessed based on how well you have visualized the scenario, identified the problem and how innovative your outcomes are. The top 20 entries will be selected for the second and final round.

The top 20 entries qualifying for the first round will be invited for a short presentation in front of the jury members consisting of delegates from HCL Tech and design experts invited by the Department of Design, Shiv Nadar University.

Winners will be announced based on the presentation, including visualization of the future scenario, problem identified, solution proposed, and quality of illustrations.

Submission
Guideline and Specifications

Entries must be submitted only in digital format (file type: PDF) in A3 size (portrait or landscape mode), in not more than five pages. The name of the PDF file shall be “Name or Team name_Design for Future”.
The first two pages should describe the future scenario, the problem that people might face in such a future scenario, and the glimpses of the findings (from literature, documents, books, reports, Sci-fi movies, serials, or documentaries, etc.) that supports the assumptions regarding the future scenario and problem.
The third and fourth pages would show the details of the final solution (including manual or digital sketching and renderings that you might have created) and relevant explanations of the solution and its application. It should also include salient features of the solution.
The entry submission shall not be text-heavy. It should have a balance of illustrations and relevant text.
Entries must be mailed to [email protected], with the subject line: Design for Future Challenge_team member's names_school names.
Teams can use applications (including AI tools) to create their submissions but must acknowledge the use.
You need to attach the completed A3 sheets in PDF format with the proper file name mentioned earlier as your final submission.

Eligibility and Team Rules

This challenge is open to all the students enrolled in classes XI and XII (or its equivalent) from any stream in any Board of Education. The challenge is also open to students who have appeared in the XIth or XIIth examinations.
Students can participate individually or in groups of two students (referred to as team henceforward). Team members from different streams or schools are also eligible.
Each team (individually or in groups of two students) must register by scanning the QR code provided on the website. There is no registration fee for the competition.
A team (individually or in groups of two students) should submit only one entry. However, a student can be a part of more than one team.
At the time of registration, the details like the full name, the school’s name, class, phone number, the address of correspondence and the email ID must be provided correctly. Any modifications of team details post-registration will not be allowed.
Any deviation from the above will immediately disqualify the entire team.
All decisions in the matter of eligibility will be with the Department of Design, Shiv Nadar University, Delhi NCR.