□ House of Dreams is village community space built at an abandoned cave in Dengfeng (Zhoushan), Henan, China with wastes in the surrounding area designed by Insitu Project. The title of this project, House of Dreams, symbolizes the collective memory of the old people who grew up in the cave. The space has guest rooms, amenity facility, shared kitchen, dining room and exhibition space. It is noticeable that individual residents from over 100 villages expressed their stories to the surface of the structure by participating in waste collection and construction. A villager who participated in this project said, “through this project, we were able to take pride in our community and deeply understand ways to reuse wastes.” Insitu Project that led this project is a design group working through the collaboration of various disciplines of design. It played a role in re-energizing a community and improving resiliency through space design and participation of the local community.
Charles Landry sharing Jury Comment
○ Charles Landry, the head of the jury of the Human City Design Award and a world’s renowned expert in creative city, commented, “this is a thoughtful project through which residents can learn new skills.” Judge Rachel Troye highly praised the project, saying “it created and developed a model by allowing participation of under-skilled local residents based on true cooperation and community. Its result was also aesthetically excellent.”
Safety & Security Award Winner Goyohan Taxi(Goyohan M)
by CO:ACTUS and SK TELECOM
□ This year, the award added Safety & Security Award and Citizens’ Award to identify designs that clearly benefited the lives of citizens at this point. Goyohan Taxi(Goyohan M) by CO:ACTUS and SK TELECOM and OOZOORO 1216 by EUS+Architects were selected for the winners of Safety & Security Award and Citizens’ Award, respectively.
○ The winner of Safe & Security Award, Goyohan Taxi(Goyohan M), is a service design project that applies mobile technology to facilitate smooth communication between passengers and taxi drivers with hearing impairment and ensure safe driving. This project was designed from the perspective of universal design to avoid any inconvenience for passengers while focusing on convenience and information accessability of people with disabilities. It is assessed as an exemplary case that showcases ways that people with disabilities can enjoy ordinary life using IT, display system and applications.
Citizens’ Award Winner OOZOORO 1216 by by EUS+ Architects
○ OOZOORO 1216 by EUS+ Architects of Korea, the winner for Citizens’ Award, is a space design project implemented on the third floor of Jeonju Municipal Library that allowed so-called the “tween” generation aged from 12 to 16 who will actually use the place to participate in the design process with experts through a design workshop. Inspired by Jeonju Fortress, the design connected different spaces with a corridor. The space is special because it makes users to think creatively and communicate about future cities while exploring different sections of the space. One citizen who participated in the screening process said, “the space is creative and innovative in that adolescents who will use the space engaged in the design process to create this place only for them.”
□ Along with the winners for Grand Prize and Special Awards, all other projects selected for the winners also inspire cities around the world and demonstrate the role of good design.
○ Accessible Beaches by No Barrier in Turkey assists the elderly and people with disabilities on wheelchairs to enjoy beach more easily. It is a project designing all facilities, including decks, changing rooms, and shower rooms, barrier-free, so that people can go in the beach on their wheelchairs.
○ Gardens in the Air – Neighbourhood Lights by Nomad Garden S. L. is a project conducted in Sevilla, Spain which is very hot and dry city with 82.6% of air conditioner penetration rate. This garden was created using about two liters of water generated every operating hour from an air conditioner.
○ Trash Busters by the team Trash Busters of Korea designed a circular system by lending reusable tableware to festivals, events, and theaters that use lots of disposable products, collecting them later, cleansing them, and lending them again.
The 3rd Human City Design Award Online Ceremony, Group Photo
The 3rd Human City Design Award Online Ceremony, Toast
□ The award ceremony was held online this year due to COVID-19. With presence of many designers and citizens from around the world, this event was live-streamed on YouTube on 21st March.
○ In the third Human City Design Award, 100 designs were submitted from 22 countries during the application period from 29th July 2021 to 31st October 2021. After three rounds of screening by experts, ten winner teams for Honorable Mention Prize (Excellence Prize) were selected from Mexico, Brazil, Spain, Japan, China, Turkey, France and Korea. Out of ten winners for Honorable Mention Prize, one team with the greatest excellency received the Grand Prize. Also, through citizen vote, the winner for Citizens’ Award was selected out of the ten Honorable Mention Prize winners. This created an opportunity for citizens to participate in the process that design exerts good influence.
○ The winner projects were selected based on the following judging criteria: 1) problem solving for urban life, 2) global value expansion, and 3) providing vision for the future. The award granted 50 million KRW of prize money and trophy to the winner of the Grand Prize and 5 million KRW of prize money and plaque to the winners of the Honorable Mention Prize (Excellence Prize) and Special Prizes (Citizens’ Award and Safety & Security Award), respectively.
The 3rd Human City Design Award Online Ceremony, Toast
with Members of Jury & Steering Committee
□ The judges and members of the steering committee of the Human City Design Award attended at the award ceremony to share the ground for their selection and celebrate the winners. The winner of the Grand Prize (House of Dreams), the winner of the Safety & Security Award (Goyohan Taxi(Goyohan M)), the winner of the Citizens’ Award (OOZOORO 1216), as well as the other winners of the Honorable Mention Prize participated in the online award ceremony and made their acceptance speech.
The 3rd Human City Design Award Winners Exhibition at DDP, Seoul
□ The ten designs of the winners of the Grand Prize and special prizes, and the design of the Safety & Security Award will be on exhibition for free by 29th April 2022 (Friday) at D-Forest, 1st floor, Design Lab of the Dongdaemun Design Plaza (DDP).
The 3rd Human City Design Award, Kyung-Don Rhee, CEO of the Seoul Design Foundation
□ Kyung-Don Rhee, CEO of the Seoul Design Foundation, said, “after last year, this year while preparing for the fourth Award, we are receiving lots of excellent projects from around the world.” He added, “in the future, the design award hosted by the Seoul Design Foundation will identify, award and encourage designers who designed creative solutions, while putting heads together with citizens to allow people to lead better life at the center of this changing world.”
□ The Human City Design Award sponsored by Seoul Metropolitan Government, and hosted and organized by the Seoul Design Foundation was hosted for the first time in 2019, advocating the expansion of design value and good influence of design. In the previous awards, Dunoon Learning and Innovation Project (2019) that created library and educational institute for children in a poor village using space design in Dunoon, Cape Town, South Africa; and Countless Cities (2020) that transformed old and abandoned houses in a village of Sicily into a new art space with design were respectively selected for the winners of the Grand Prize. As these attracted attention from the designers around the world, the Human City Design Award is becoming a global design award for public good.
Attachment
1. One copy of the introduction of the ten Honorable Mention Prize (Excellence Prize) winners of the third Human City Design Award.
2. One copy of the introduction of the winners for the Safety & Security Award of the third Human City Design Award.
| Attachment 1 | Introduction of the ten Honorable Mention Prize (Excellence Prize) winners of the third Human City Design Award |
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➀ Accessible beach that helps wheelchair users and the elderly enjoy beach more easily (Accessible Beaches by No Barrier in Muğla, Turkey)
○ Accessible Beaches is a project of designing all the facilities on a beach in Mugla, Turkey, including deck, changing rooms, and shower booths, barrier-free, so that people with disabilities and the elderly with mobility difficulties also can go into the sea, enjoying the beach more conveniently.
○ The deck made with a special material has been installed on 19 beaches since 2016. As it is designed to prevent wheels from being stuck in sand, people with disabilities can get to the beach by themselves in their wheelchair. Since this detachable deck can be installed and demolished easily, beach space can be utilized in a versatile manner for different seasons.
○ This project is being expanded from Mugla to other regions in Turkey, presenting a best practice that people with disabilities, caregivers and tourists can be equal on a beach.
➁ Cine Passeio that revitalizes an old street by repurposing an old military building based on a memory of an old theater (Cine Passeio by IPPUC (Institute for Research and Urban Planning of Curitiba) in Curitiba, Brazil)
○ Cine Passeio is a project that repurposed a military building constructed in the 1930s to house administrative part of Brazilian military into a cultural center by paying homage to a theater located at the center of the city in the past.
○ Cine Passeio includes two screening rooms, educational facility and multi-purpose space. Also, it is designed to allow people to enjoy films and performances with a large LED screen installed at a nearby outdoor park.
○ Another strength of Cine Passeio is various cultural and art programs that invite citizens to a social space where design, art, technology and culture meet together. With these experiment, the building revitalized not just Riachuelo street, but also its neighboring areas.
➂ Den-paku Hotel that connects the experience of traditional culture in a village with a stay in historic houses (Den-paku Hotel (by Shima Hito Takara General Incorporated Association in Amami, Japan)
○ Den-paku Hotel is a redesigned accommodations of old traditional houses in Kasari town, northern part of a small and beautiful Amami Island, which has been recognized as a World Cultural Heritage.
○ This project not just utilized empty houses for accommodations, but also developed an experience program for communication between local residents and tourists, so that local people can create additional income.
○ Den-paku Hotel has expanded from two empty houses in 2016 to 30 houses and buildings, including 44 guest rooms. Now, its goal is transferring traditional culture of the village to the next generation by using the income generated by residents.
➃ Gardens in the Air that restore an urban ecosystem by using the water generated from air conditioning outdoor units (Gardens in the Air - Neighbourhood lights by Nomad Garden S.L. in Sevilla, Spain)
○ Gardens in the Air are a project carried out in Sevilla, a hot and dry city with 82.6% of air conditioner penetration rate. Its main activity is creating gardens by using about two liters of water generated from air conditioner operation every hour.
○ In the Gardens in the Air installed on the exterior walls of an old building, plants suitable for the local environment were planted. These gardens also serve as fountains for local birds in the area.
○ Centering around these Gardens in the Air, there are other activities on-going, such as a workshop on making perfume using local plants, namely tangerine trees, and composing polyphony music by capturing human and non-human sounds.
➄ House of Dreams that was built by residents using an abandoned cave and wastes in the area (House of Dreams by Insitu Project (Kuo Jze Yi, Peter Hasdell), Zhoushan Community Group (Liang Jun) and Ku Hok Bun in Dengfeng(Zhoushan), China)
○ House of Dreams is a project to make a community center in an abandoned cave house in Zhoushan village, Dengfeng, China with active participation of local residents. Through this, the project gave them a new perspective about design.
○ Residents from 100 villages in the vicinity collected wastes and participated in construction, leaving their story and memory on the surface of the building. This project gave them an opportunity to take pride about their community and deeply understand ways to recycle wastes.
○ The process of designing the community space through on-site discussion without any provided technical drawings made these unskilled residents main actors in the design process.
➅ La Mexicana Park that transformed a quarry into the most safest park in the city (La Mexicana Park by Mario Schjetnan in Mexico City, Mexico)
○ La Mexicana Park is located in an area that has been used as a quarry for 50 years. Though original plan was constructing a large-scale apartment complex, local residents took the initiative to have negotiations with the municipal government and private developers for 10 years and finally designed this large-scale park.
○ La Mexicana Park is the most safest park in the city without any crime taking place for the last three years. It also became one of the famous places in the city, attracting two million visitors per year since the opening of the park.
○ Since the park is operated with the rent from convenience facilities, it does not require any municipal budget. Therefore, it proves that a large-scale bottom-up design project can be financially independent.
➆ OZOORO 1216, a participatory space designed for the “Tween” generation aged from 12 to 16 who want to explore the world(OZOORO 1216 by EUS+ Architects in Jeonju, Korea)
○ OOZOORO 1216 is a project to create an alternative space outside of home and school for the so-called “Tween” generation aged between 12 and 16. The focal point of the design inspired by the walls of Jeonju Castle allows people to explore the space by connecting different zones with a corridor, rather than creating a room.
○ A participatory design workshop for the “Tween” generation who will actually use the space allowed children to take part in the design work and gave them capabilities to the lead design process.
○ After the opening of the space, through this project children can be managers of its library to introduce the space to others and make guidelines. They can also experience the process of improving the environment by themselves.
➇ Place des Possibles that was repurposed from an old factory in the city by working together with local residents in a gradual manner (Place des Possibles by Collectif Etc in Saint Laurent en Royans, France)
○ Place des Possibles is a participatory construction project that turned an outdated textile factory in a small village into a cultural space through cooperation between local residents and experts.
○ Instead of a large-scale construction with a huge amount of upfront cost, the project was conducted in a gradual manner based on a cooperative design with small budget. Also, local actors participated in the entire process.
○ This project transformed an old metal ventilation equipment into furniture, while designing a new sign of the building out of an old metal panel. This work developed through resident workshop, presenting a new direction of sharing design.
➈ Trash Busters that developed a solution circulating resources to replace disposable products with multi-use products (Trash Busters by team Trash Busters in Seoul Korea)
○ Trash Busters was organized in 2019 to address disposable wastes issue in urban areas. It designed a circular system in which it lends multi-use containers to festival sites, event venues and theaters where generally disposable products are widely used; collects them; clean them; and lends them again.
○ After their service life, the multi-use containers made of polypropylene (PP) which is no harm to human body and heat resistant will be crushed into small grains and turned into a new product. This prevents the production of disposable products from the beginning. Therefore, it reduces carbon emissions not just from the production of disposable products, but also from the incineration of disposable products, while cutting down cost for waste treatment.
○ With convenience and kindness at the core of its design philosophy, the project adopted an interesting concept by using a BI (brand identity) that paid homage to Ghostbusters logo to bust wastes, not ghosts. Through its brand design with vivid orange color, instead of green that symbolizes eco-friendliness, Trash Busters makes the utilization of multi-use containers a new trend.
➉ Yujidao Park, a large-scale park designed based on an eco-system where a city harmonizes with nature.(Yujidao Park by BLVD International in Nanchong, China)
○ Yujidao Park is designed like a piece of landscape paㄷinting by visually connecting old city with new city through Jialing River, Sichuan, and harmonizing it with a variety of plants.
○ In order to protect natural forest, while considering the experience and participation of visitors, the flow of visitors have been optimized and roads and buildings were designed according to the scale and space of the forest.
○ Through this project, we can appreciate not just the majesty of giant nature, but also the considerate efforts of the design for coexistence with nature.
| Attathment 2 | Introduction of the winners for the Safety & Security Award of the third Human City Design Award |
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Goyohan Taxi(Goyohan M), A service design that assists safe driving and communication of taxi drivers with hearing impairment. (Goyohan Taxi(Goyohan M) by CO:ACTUS and SK TELECOM in Seoul, Korea)
○ The drivers and passengers on Goyohan Taxi(Goyohan M) can communicate with each other using tablet PCs installed in the front seat and back seat of the taxi. This “driving assistance solution” was designed from the perspective of universal design to avoid any inconvenience while focusing on information accessability and convenience of people with hearing disabilities.
○ This design can be applied to taxi companies and ride hailing platforms not only in Korea, but also in other countries that allow driving of people with hearing disabilities. Goyohan Taxi(Goyohan M) operated by people with hearing impairment is a representative case that supports economic activity of people with disabilities by applying mobile ICT and universal design. This shows the possibility of sustainable and harmonious human city that enhances both human-centric technology and awareness about people with disabilities.
Contacts :
Seoul Design Foundation
Haesoo Estella Kim / estellakim@seouldesign.or.kr / +82-2-2096-0132
Minjeong Kim / mjkim@seouldesign.or.kr / +82-2-2096-0133
Human City Design Award Secretariat
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