Innovative Minds 2017: Cybernetic Framework
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gURROO hosts an annual international design competition (Innovative Minds Design Competition) in an effort to become a catalyst for creative thinking while rewarding designers for their ideas. The competition focuses on the blending of physical and virtual architecture and how innovative minds can address societal issues. A portion of the proceeds go to support organizations that influence technological strides in the design community.
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Innovative Minds 2017 is an exploration into the relationship between the virtual world blending with physical architecture. The virtual world - built on the framework of vast data networks - is becoming increasingly referential to the nervous system. Architecture strives to tangibly enhance humanity’s wellbeing through the design of complex systems. As cybernetics increasingly interconnects the virtual and physical worlds, how will this relationship influence architecture and its physical context to solve complicated problems?
As humans continue to design the virtual and physical worlds, how can cybernetics bridge these domains? Inherent challenges are evident in every site associated with physical architecture. Use these site-specific characteristics to investigate a cybernetic framework that will expand architectural strategies such as environmental contextualism, user interaction, building function, and/or construction techniques.
Your framework will present a new way of interacting with the built world.
Infringement of copyright and other intellectual property...original work of the entrant(s)
All work submitted for the competition must be the entrant’s original work. It is the entrant’s sole responsibility to ensure that the work submitted does not infringe upon the intellectual property rights of any third party, including, but not limited to material with a copyright, trademark and design right. Gurroo LLC shall not be responsible for entrant’s infringement of any third party intellectual property rights, regardless of whether said infringement was known or should have been known by entrant.
Restrictions on Submitted Work
Entrant(s) may not submit work that have been implemented or that have been designed on the basis of any agreement entered into by the entrant(s) with a public, public/private or fully private entity with the intention of actual development of the project in question. Similarly, entries may not refer to projects published before the last day of the deliberations of the judging panel.
Judges will assess how well the project answers the Design Challenge with a successful architectural solution. The graphic quality of diagrams, drawings and renderings, and how the overall clarity of the boards display the essence of the project, will also be a factor in the judging decision.
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Honorable Mention projects will be published on the gURROO website.Open Source Donation
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