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Jamely Esmeralda
UArtes, Ecuador
jamely.esmeralda@uartes.edu.ec

Literature student at the University of Arts of Guayaquil. She has been published at Ruta Colectiva maganize. Mention of honor at LibreLibro Literary Contest, category: narrative (2018). She has colaborated with local NGO´s for the development of political, cultural and artistic projects for women and LGBTQ community. She gives virtual workshops of decolonial studies and class, gender and race critical theory (2020-nowadays). She translates texts and gives translation workshops for the AWTC (Academic Writing and Translation Center) in colaboration with the International Relationships Department at the University of Arts. She will represent the University of Arts as Ambassador for the Cumulus Guayaquil 2021 Conference.

Joao Jiménez
UArtes, Ecuador
joao.jimenez@uartes.edu.ec

Music production student with experience in audio editing and mixing for new media. Passionate about the artistic sector that is born from innovation and technological vanguards. With a view to generating innovative musical and sound projects, he has entered the world of programming. In addition, he has participated in cultural projects to vindicate independent art in cities like Loja, Saraguro, Otavalo and Guayaquil. He will represent the University of Arts as Ambassador for the Cumulus Guayaquil 2021 Conference.

ABOUT THE PROGRAM:
The Cumulus Student Ambassador Program is a special student award and merit-based initiative of the Cumulus that recognizes exceptional student leaders from the universities and institutions hosting the Cumulus Association Annual Conferences. Each year, Cumulus invites a total of four Student Ambassadors (two per annual conference) to contribute their singular voices to the Association’s Conferences and the Cumulus community overall.

Through the Cumulus Student Ambassador Program, the Cumulus Association is committed to bringing the perspectives and voices of exceptionally talented and articulate students to the forefront, with the goal of highlighting the changes that the next generation of artists and designers are shaping in an increasingly complex and interconnected global marketplace for art and design.
#cumulusstudentambassadors

The Cumulus Green 2022: Nurturing Our Planet competition invites students from all Cumulus member institutions to consider submissions that advance the United Nations’ Sustainable Goals (SDG).

For the 2022 edition, Cumulus is choosing to bring the talent and creativity of its global community to focus on SDG2: Zero Hunger.

Under the umbrella of zero hunger, SDG2 is not only about ending hunger, but also achieving food security and improved nutrition and promoting sustainable agriculture.

The competition will reward the best work with 3 different categories of prizes as well as with honorary mentions. The prize pool is 20.000 EUR.

The judging process is led by jury co-chairs and Cumulus Executive Board representatives, Anne Pikkov and Jose Allard, and international experts in design, cultural diplomacy, sustainability and circular economy including Rahul Bhattacharya, Erik Ciravegna, Dolly Daou, Lynda Deakin, Daniel Grushkin, Philipp Heidkamp, Soojin Jun, Silvana Juri, Anna Meroni, Pedro Reissig, Vishnu Swaminathan, John Thackara, Xiao Yong and Francesca Zampollo.

Cumulus has partnered with the One Club for Creativity to host the submission platform and the jury room of the Cumulus Green 2022 competition. The competition prize pool has been doubled thanks to the sponsorship of BE OPEN Foundation.

Deadline for submissions has been moved to March 15, 2022.

More information available and the entry submission platform open soon at cumulusgreen.org. Stay tuned!

For any further questions, please contact the Cumulus Secretariat at cumulusgreencompetition@aalto.fi.

Read the whole text of the Call for Entries here CumulusGreen2022call

The Green Concept Award, to which Cumulus is an partner institution, is aimed at students, start-ups and established companies, honouring concepts of sustainable materials, products and services that are not yet on the market.

Submission deadline November 1, 2021.

Students and graduates receive special support. The young designers receive a toolkit for developing their concept into a sustainable product or service. Free workshops and Q&A sessions as well as interim feedback are further offers. Selected participants receive help with presentation & communication for later matchmaking. Exhibitions at (inter-)national fairs and design festivals – such as Dutch Design Week – are in preparation.

Since 2013, the Green Product Award distinguishes products and services, good in sustainability, innovation & design. It is aimed at products & services on the market from start-ups and established companies who wish to highlight their sustainable achievements.

For more information visit their website here.

Application deadline is extended to September 21, 2021.

For more information, please visit the competition website.

The Cumulus member, Kyushu Unviersity, understands that the pandemic has disrupted the classes in many of the educational institutions worldwide. Therefor the application deadline is extended to September 21, 2021 (Japan Time) to give the students more time to prepare for this competition.

You can also see the SDGs 2021 PDF for more information.

Awards ceremony will take place in Barcelona on 14 October as part of Barcelona Design Week’s City Festival.

The deadline to participate in Roca’s international design contest jumpthegap® has been extended. Architects and designers from all over the world now have until 6 September to submit their best ideas for the bathroom space, which must address and advance the goals set out by the United Nations’ 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development.

This deadline extension is the result of a progressive improvement of the COVID-19 situation in Spain, which makes it possible to plan a hybrid awards ceremony at Roca Barcelona Gallery on 14 October 2021 as part of Barcelona Design Week’s City Festival, in keeping with the tradition and spirit of jumpthegap®.

Participants are invited to submit their designs at www.jumpthegap.net, either individually or in groups of two. The competition, which is organised in collaboration with BcD Barcelona Design centre, is divided into four categories: Wellness & Health, designs that deliver new levels of comfort and peace of mind for users and clients, promoting balance and harmony; [Un]neutral design, projects that ingeniously and meaningfully address the bodily diversity and the wide range of capacities displayed by human beings, facilitating independent living through new creative personal aid features; Water & Energy, projects that promote a smart and conscious use of planetary resources; and Crisis & Emergency, designs that tackle a context of permanent crisis and emergency with the help of flexible, feasible and replicable materials and technologies.

The projects will be assessed by a jury of renowned professionals led by Japanese architect and 2014 Pritzker Prize winner Shigeru Ban (Jury President), and which also includes Somi Kim, Senior Director, Healthcare Solutions at Johnson & Johnson (J&J) Design; Paul Priestman, Designer, Chairman of PriestmanGoode; Andrea Trimarchi and Simone Farresin, Founders of Formafantasma design studio; Deborah Seward, Director of United Nations Regional Information Centre in Belgium; Mariana Amatullo, President of Cumulus International Association of Universities and Colleges of Art, Design and Media; Isabel Roig, Executive Director of BcD Barcelona Design centre and President of World Design Weeks; and Marc Viardot, Roca Group’s Corporate Marketing and Design Director.

There will be a total of 13 prizes awarded: four prizes of €2,000 for the winner of each category, eight prizes of €500 for the 1st and 2nd runner up of each category, and a grand prize of €5,000 for the ‘Best of the Best’ project, selected from the four winners.

This 10th edition of jumpthegap® marks a new stage in the development of Roca’s international design contest, driven by the crucial challenges we face today both as individuals and as a society. Its new look into the future draws from the cross-cutting challenges posed by the United Nations’ 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development in terms of health care and hygiene, preservation of the planet, respect for diversity or equal access to technological advances. Participants must present solutions that are technologically feasible, provide added value to innovation and show diversity, sustainability, timelessness and adaptability. For further information, please visit: www.jumpthegap.net.

About jumpthegap®
jumpthegap® is an international design contest promoted by Roca since 2004. Held every two years in collaboration with BcD Barcelona Design centre, its main goal is to offer a platform where architecture and design professionals and students from all over the globe can develop and showcase their talent, coming up with creative solutions for the bathroom space.

jumpthegap®’s new look into the future draws from the cross-cutting challenges posed by the United Nations’ 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development in terms of health care and hygiene, preservation of the planet, respect for diversity or equal access to technological advances. Consequently, the contest challenges new generations of designers and architects to come up with real and innovative solutions for the bathroom space, whether public or private, with a truly social, inclusive and sustainable focus. The final objective for all contestants is to design a product or service that solves any of the challenges included in the 2030 Agenda, provides added innovative value and is technologically viable.
www.jumpthegap.net

Hosted by the Seoul Metropolitan Government (SMG) and organized by Cumulus partner – the Seoul Design Foundation (SDF), the Award recognizes designers who built harmony between people and society as well as people and the environment to form sustainable cities.

The scope of the award has been broadened to encompass product, visual, digital and multimedia, space and system, experience, service, social, etc. with the intention to encourage the good efforts of designers in all fields.

In addition, the Citizens’ Award is introduced for the first time this year, which allows the public to take part in the screening process. The jury comprised of world-renowned experts in urban research and design has engaged in a total of three in-depth screening processes every year. This year, professional jurors from Korea and abroad will conduct the first and second rounds of screening in November and December, and the third round will be accompanied by presentations and by interviews with the top 10 candidates as well as citizens’ voting.

The screening will focus mainly on three aspects: whether thedesign provided (1) solutions for urban life issues, (2) visions forthe future, and (3) global values.

Another special award titled the “Safety & Security Award” is also introduced for the first time. This award will be presented to a project that helped maintain safety and security in cities in the face of threats from infectious diseases, natural disasters, and crimes.

The submission period is from Sept. 1 to Oct. 31. Application form can be filled out and submitted via the official website (http://humancitydesignaward.or.kr). Details of the announcement and the submission method can also be found on the website.

“The spirit of the Human City Design Award is to find solutions to problems in cities through design and local cooperation and solidarity,” said Joo Yong-tae, acting director of the SDF. “I hope to see a diverse range of projects reflecting this spirit submitted this year so that the Award can play its role as a platform for sharing sustainable future designs.”

Official Schedule
Notice Period: 29 July 2021(Thu) ~ 31 October 2021(Sun) (KST 24:00)
Submission Period: 1 September 2021(Wed) ~ 31 October 2021(Sun) (KST 24:00)
Screening Period: November 2021 ~ February 2022
Award Ceremony: 21 March 2022(Mon)

Enquiry Contact
Homepage : humancitydesignaward.or.kr
E-mail : humancity@seouldesign.or.kr

Programme Type: International Master Programme in Cooperation with the University of Art and Design Linz and the Anton Bruckner Private University, Austria

Language: English

Duration: 4 semesters

The design of musical instruments is already looking back to a long cultural and artistic tradition throughout the millennia. With the development of electronic music during the last century we have  experienced a radical paradigmatic shift, which accelerated during the past decades through the further advances in digitalization of music and the following virtualization of instruments. Postdigital Lutherie intends to reflect these developments by reconnecting the various aspects of acoustic, electronic and digital design of musical instruments again within tangible sonic artifacts for musical expression. This opens new design perspectives and artistic possibilities for established cultural techniques and musical practices in the context of an ongoing digitalization.

For further information please see here.

This year’s nominees were chosen out of more than 400 submissions from over 50 countries and are competing in four competition categories: the Product, Concept and Vision Awards are geared toward the professional sector, while the New Talent Award will honor young designers.

“We couldn’t be more pleased with the excellent submissions we received in all four categories, especially since we had entries from a record number of countries this year. This shows that, as a competition that truly spans the globe, the UX Design Awards are recognized as a showcase for international experience design excellence,” said Professor Pelin Celik, chairwoman of the #UXDA21-jury and vice-chair of the board of International Design Center Berlin. The nominated entries propose innovative solutions, products and services across diverse application fields – among them: awareness & education, healthcare, fintech, software & IoT, R&D, industry & robotics, professional & end user products.

While the jury of renowned experts that has nominated the outstanding solutions for the competition will now proceed to select winners in the four categories, users worldwide are invited to vote for their favorite solutions. Voting for the audience prize “UX Design Award | Public Choice” is open until 31 August 2021 on the UX Design Awards’ website, where all nominated solutions are presented in an online exhibition. All winners of the 2021 UX Design Awards will be announced and honored in a virtual award ceremony on 1 September 2021.

Application deadline extended – September 21, 2021.

For this year awards, we want to join in as part of the world’s effort to achieve a carbon-neutrality.

Theme: Let’s Create a Carbon-Neutral Society – Think Big, Start Small, Move Fast

The rapid climate change affects the whole world with extreme weather conditions such as drought, heatwaves, heavy rain, floods, and landslides becoming more frequent.  We need to reduce greenhouse gas emissions to virtually zero, which is being called for in Japan and many other countries.

This competition welcomes students from all discipline to share with us their innovative design solutions to achieve caron-neutrality. We want to encourage young people to play a role to create a better society now and for the future and be inspired by each other’s effort.

We look forward to your applications and solutions to help keep the world safe and sustainable.

More information regarding the competition can be found at:

http://www.sdgs.design.kyushu-u.ac.jp/awards/english/

The Cumulus student group Cirro Cumulus has launched a competition with the goal of finding the best communication strategy to engage students within the Cumulus community. The idea is to find a way to gather the students of Cumulus and unleash the power of networking at a global level. The competition is open to all students from Cumulus member institutions. We invite you to join the challenge and spread the word!

Please see the competition guidelines for more details. Please send your submission no later than October 24, 2021 to cirrosubmissions@cumulusconnects.org

The winning individual/team will receive a 300€ equivalent voucher for each participant (up to three), to acquire goods (books, art materials, computer peripherals, etc) on a platform agreed between winners and the Cumulus Secretariat.