On 1 October 2012, MAB12 hosted a 24 hour student design competition. The winning team receives a travel scholarship for attending the Media Architecture Biennale 2012 in Aarhus to the amount of 1,000 EUR as they will be invited to present their conceptual work at the biennale.
The task was to design a concept for a dynamic media façade that can be used to build up a sustained relation to a civic theme or challenge through everyday participation - with a focus on creating an immediately engaging interaction that activates people sensuously and emotionally and affectively to contribute to this theme through user-generated content.
Click here for the full design brief, submission details and other practicalities.
The winning team
The winner of the MAB Student Design Competition and a travel scholarship for attending the Media Architecture Biennale 2012 in Aarhus to the amount of 1,000 EUR is
Entropy
Mark Mitchell, Hanley Weng, Emila Yang and Kendrick Khoo (The University of Sydney, Australia)
Visit their Tumblrl at: http://entropy2012.tumblr.com/
Honorary mentions
All three honorary mentions will be invited to have the project featured in the exhibition as a poster and possibly video:
For thinking architecture as something which is 'fluid', transformational, movable as well as moving; The 'Out-of-the-box'/'Activist' honorary mention goes to:
Bravo /Metaoccupation
Ruben Alonso and Ollie Palmer (The Bartlett School of Architecture)
http://metaoccupation.tumblr.
The use of open source drones as providers of projection surfaces is excellent and great out-of-the-box thinking. The jury also greatly appreciates the link to the use in the Occupy movement and its focus on participation and stressing of the power of the people.
For conceptualising something we'd actually like to see in some form at MAB; The 'We want to see this happen' honorary mention goes to:
Urbaneers
Mathis Rohde Nielsen, Jason Peter Morris, Søren Pedersen, Michael Kühl Andersen (Aarhus University)
http://www.urbaneers.tumblr.
"Very inspiring concept that is clearly a well thought through response to the brief, while activating a space that is currently largely neglacted at night time," as one jury member said. It is a good point to see the small river in Aarhus as an architectural surface that at night time transforms into a surface with media facade capabilities.
For compellingly meeting the spirit of the competition's civic theme and for making us all think about the potentials in architecture for supporting societal change; The 'Social Change'/'Big Thinking' honorary mention goes to:
ZWEI
Natalia Vergara Forero, Oscar Ivan Patarroyo Vela (Hochschule Weihenstephan-Triesdorf // Bauhaus University)
http://zweiarch.tumblr.com/
"They definitely met the spirit of the competition," as one jury member said, continuing: "Columbia is wracked with violence by a relatively small portion of the population. The purpose of the social media display is to publicly illustrate that "the good ones are more (Los Buenos somos mas)". I am especially impressed with the social idea. There are thousands of social media metadata ambiant awareness displays, but this team has a convincing argument that comes through in their design."
Each team kept a Tumblr blog to record their progress and were also encouraged to post updates on Twitter with the tag #mab12sc. An overview of the teams along with links to their respective blogs as well as the Twitter activity can be found below.
ARCREACTION
Affiliation
Digital Design, Aarhus University, Denmark
Team Members
Mette Esager & Caroline Lundqvist
Latest Blog Posts
arcreaction2012.tumblr.com
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Bravo
Affiliation
The Bartlett School of Architecture, University College London, UK
Team Members
Ruben Alonso & Ollie Palmer
Latest Blog Posts
metaoccupation.tumblr.com
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DD-Creation
Affiliation
Digital Design, Aarhus University, Denmark
Team Members
Jeanette Falk Olesen, Isabella Steinbach & Daniel Uhrskov Hilleberg
Latest Blog Posts
dd-creation.tumblr.com
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Entropy
Affiliation
Bachelor of Design Computing Programme, The University of Sydney, Australia
Team Members
Mark C Mitchell, Hanley Weng, Kendrick Khoo & Emila Yang
Latest Blog Posts
entropy2012.tumblr.com
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Hoosier Design
Affiliation
Human Computer Interaction Design Masters Program, Indiana University Bloomington, USA
Team Members
Shreyasee Chand, Vamsi Chaitanya & Subhrajit Das
Latest Blog Posts
hoosierdesign.tumblr.com
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IxD Mashup
Affiliation
Interaction Design and Technologies, Chalmers University of Technology, Sweden
Team Members
Jonatan Mato & Amanda Cuello
Latest Blog Posts
ixdmashup.tumblr.com
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Leading Digits
Affiliation
Digital Design, Aarhus University, Denmark
Team Members
Nanna Jansen, Martin Nøhr, Rene Jelle & Pernille Grand
Latest Blog Posts
leadingdigits.tumblr.com
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MABSLAMS
Affiliation
Information Studies, Aarhus University, Denmark
Team Members
Mikkel Messer, Søren Rasmussen, Lasse Kjær Christiansen, Anders Lassen & Sune Bjørn Andersen
Latest Blog Posts
mabslams.tumblr.com
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MAIA
Affiliation
Digital Media & Design, IT University of Copenhagen, Denmark
Team Members
Martin Høgild, Astrid Stokholm, Isabel Aagaard, Andreas Jonsson & Alexander Brandi
Latest Blog Posts
maia-dk.tumblr.com
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namem
Affiliation
Digital Design, Aarhus University, Denmark
Team Members
Marie Louise Juul Søndergaard & Malou Christensen
Latest Blog Posts
namem.tumblr.com
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Orange-vertex
Affiliation
The Bartlett School of Architecture, University College London, UK
Team Members
Petros Koutsolampros
Latest Blog Posts
orange-vertex.tumblr.com
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UB
Affiliation
State University of New York, University at Buffalo, USA
Team Members
Kathy Yuen, Jose Pesantez-Rojas & Nima Vakili
Latest Blog Posts
ubmab.tumblr.com
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Urbaneers
Affiliation
Digital Design, Aarhus University, Denmark
Team Members
Mathis Rohde Nielsen, Jason Peter Morris, Søren Pedersen & Michael Kühl Andersen
Latest Blog Posts
urbaneers.tumblr.com
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ZWEI Architekten
Affiliation
International Master of Landscape Architecture (IMLA), Hochschule Weihenstephan-Triesdorf, Germany
Media Architecture, Bauhaus University, Germany
Team Members
Natalia Vergara Forero & Oscar Ivan Patarroyo Vela
Latest Blog Posts
zweiarch.tumblr.com
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