We are looking for creative ideas to design, develop and implement revitalization of the site to benefit the quality of life of the residents and encourage sustainable development. The competition seeks to foster an integrated urban development of a site in Koundampalayam (Coimbatore). The Co(Vai)-Design Competition is a national level Urban Design Competition that aims to jointly design and facilitate with a diverse set of stakeholders the implementation of integrated civic projects that are of key relevance to the sustainable development of Coimbatore. Yarra Valley Water, Monash Sustainable Development Institute, Yes Everyone Matters and E2Designlab also supported the 2020 event.The Coimbatore Municipal Corporation and the Deutsche Gesellschaft für Internationale Zusammenarbeit (GIZ) GmbH jointly call all creative minds in the field of urban design, urban planning, architecture, landscape design as well as environmental and social experts to participate in the “Co(Vai)-Design” Open Urban Design Competition (UDC)! The goal is to give participants real world skills and experience working with leading industry thinkers. The annual student competition aims to get more people engaged in conversations about how we can create better cities of the future.

Participants could be university students from any level of university (including Masters), recent graduates (up to one year post graduation), or Year 12 VCE students.

Our Future Cities 2020 was open to individuals and teams from different disciplinary backgrounds. The contestants used the CRCWSC’s Scenario Tool to assess the effectiveness of their designs in reducing vulnerability to extreme heat and flooding events, improving urban amenity and liveability, enhancing stormwater quality and reuse, and improving environmental health.Ī diverse and dedicated group of over 60 voluntary industry mentors provided 3000-plus hours of mentoring support to the participants during the competition. The Cooperative Research Centre for Water Sensitive Cities (CRCWSC) and Yarra Valley Water were major supporters.

The competition produced some outstanding, innovative and interdisciplinary design concepts for the Box Hill site, including: blue and green infrastructure to mitigate urban heat and provide amenity and recreation wildlife corridors to provide habitat and support local biodiversity restorative spaces for human health, connection and wellbeing place based economic revitalisation models to support local businesses and infrastructure and streetscape design that embraces and celebrates local culture and supports community needs. The online event was run as a three-week design sprint of workshops, mentoring and design, focusing on embracing water sensitive city design solutions to tackle urban heat and create green and liveable city solutions, and downscaling the UN SDGs to deal with local challenges. The 2020 Our Future Cities competition was a ‘transformative challenge’ in which 170 contestants competed in 30 small interdisciplinary teams to explore the United Nations Sustainable Development Goals (UN SDGs) and apply them to urban design challenges at the Box Hill Metropolitan Activity Centre.

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