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Qualifications of Participation


Secondary School Group

  • All students from local secondary schools are welcome to participate
  • Each team can consist of 2-3 students
  • Team members can come from the same or different schools
  • There is no limit on the number of teams from the same school joining the competition
  • The competition is free of charge
Tertiary Education Group

  • All full-time students from local tertiary education institutions are welcome to participate
  • Each team can consist of 2-3 students
  • Team members can come from the same or different institutions and faculties
  • There is no limit on the number of teams from the same institution joining the competition
  • The competition is free of charge

Design Requirements


Secondary School Group

  • To design a kitchen with 60 square feet (equal to 5.5742 square meters)

Household Information:

  • A family of 3 live together, comprising an elderly woman, aged 70+ with early dementia, a single parent and a child, aged between 10-14 years old.
  • After being diagnosed of dementia, she often gets confused when cooking from a recipe, often providing a limited variety of dishes, struggling to manage the ingredients properly and forgetting to turn off the water tap after washing vegetables.
  • She misplaces things. For example, she has put the iron in the freezer and sometimes places her watch in the sugar tin.

Criteria to be considered:

  • Through pragmatic and tailor-made designs, the kitchen will become a place which can enhance interactions between the elderly woman and her family. It should provide them with the opportunity to share and discuss their emotions more often. All warm memories start in the kitchen!
  • Feel free to put ideas into practice, however feasibility and production costs have to be considered.
  • There is a need to meet health & safety criteria, for example, maintaining abiding standards for space use for cooking and washing.
  • The design has to be easy to assemble and dismantle for transportation purpose.
  • Environmentally friendly or recycled materials are strongly encouraged to adopt.

Tertiary Education Group

  • To design a 21.69 square meters or 21.96 square meters flat in a public estate which can accommodate a family of 3

Living Environment:

  • There are a few NW facing windows in the flat (please refer to the floor plan). They can be opened. Sunshine can reach the windows for 2-3 hours in the afternoon.
  • The design has to meet the following floor plan and specifications. The layout cannot be revised.

Household Information:

  • A family of 3 live together, comprising an elderly woman, aged 70+ with early dementia, a single parent and a child, aged between 10-14 years old.
  • The elderly woman visits a senior care centre daily, leaving every morning and returning home in the evening.
  • The flat always has people and the lights are on for around 4 hours every day.
  • On average, the elderly woman cooks 2 times a day. Each family member has shower once a day.
  • The total household income is HK$15,000/month.
  • Expenses on rent, water and electricity is HK$3,500, on average.
  • In winter, they spend 10% of the total household income on electricity. In summer, they spend 15%.

Background Information of the Elderly Woman:

  • When the elderly woman was of working age, she used to work hard in a factory.
  • As a traditional woman, she puts family in the first place.
  • She loves her grandchild above all else. She enjoys very much living with and talking to her relatives. She also enjoys cooking meals for them.
  • After being diagnosed of dementia, she often gets confused when cooking from a recipe, often providing a limited variety of dishes, struggling to manage the ingredients properly and forgetting to turn off the water tap after washing vegetables.
  • She misplaces things. For example, she has put the iron in the freezer and sometimes places her watch in the sugar tin.
  • She is often disorientated, getting confused about times and places. She has been known to wander the streets at night. Fortunately, she has been located by her family before anything happened to her.

Criteria to be considered:

  • Provide a safe and tailor-made home design which helps to bring happy memories back to the elderly woman and works towards lessening and slowing the effects of her degenerative dementia.
  • Submission of designs has to consider the aspect of spatial planning, lighting design, use of materials and furniture layout. It has to be energy efficient, offer sufficient ventilation and make effective use of natural and artificial lights.
  • Feel free to put ideas into practice, however feasibility and production costs have to be considered.
  • There is a need to meet health & safety criteria, for example, maintaining abiding standards for space use for cooking and washing.
  • The design has to be easy to assemble and dismantle for transportation purpose.
  • Environmentally friendly or recycled materials are strongly encouraged to adopt.

plan
Kitchen range dimensions
Length 68cm x depth 56cm x height 66cm

Kitchen working table dimensions
Length 102cm x depth 56cm x height 86cm

Source of information: Hong Kong Housing Authority (there are variations of the actual sizes of different flats)

Source of information: Hong Kong Housing Authority (there are variations of the actual sizes of different flats)


Judging Standards


Secondary School Group
  • Creative Concept
  • Safety Standard
  • Environmental Effectiveness
  • Cost-effectiveness
  • Recall of Happy Memories
  • Caring Design
  • Feasibility
  • Convenience
Tertiary Education Group
  • Creative Concept
  • Safety Standard
  • Energy Efficiency
  • Space Usage
  • Environmental Effectiveness
  • Cost-effectiveness
  • Recall of Happy Memory
  • Caring Design
  • Feasibility
  • Convenience

Procedures


  • Interested parties can join the competition by completing the application form available at the webpage for “Social Innovation Inventor – Competition for Innovative Design”, on the World Green Organisation (WGO) homepage. Please send your application with a copy of the student ID card for each team member, from now until the 5th of January 2015. Applicants under the age of 18 are required to submit the “Declaration of Participation” form signed by a guardian or a school teacher.
  • After receiving applications forms, the WGO will invite qualified teams on the 23rd of January 2015 to attend the Briefing Session on either the 7th or 14th of February 2015 by email. A “Participating Team Card” will be distributed to each team on the same day.
  • Participating teams shall prepare their designs according to the instructions and guidelines to be provided in the Briefing Session, and submit their design layouts in PDF format, together with their Participating Team Card by email to inventor@thewgo.org on or before 5:00 pm on the 27th of February 2015. Teams are required to elaborate on how happy memories can be recalled and which part of the idea is for caring design (in less than 500 words).
  • By early March 2015, 10 teams from each group will be selected as finalists for the final round of the competition.
  • The finalists will be notified to attend a variety of free workshops, which will be held in April 2015. These workshops are mainly to help the finalists further improve their designs and innovative concepts.
  • Finalists are required to submit their final design proposals on or before 19 May 2015.
  • Final judging will take place in June 2015. The Champion, the First Runner-up, the Second Runners-up and Merit Awards of each group will be selected.
  • All winning teams will be awarded with prizes in a ceremony in July 2015.

Core Judging Panel


Professor Lam Chiu-ying
Adjunct Professor,
Department of Geography and Resource Management, CUHK

Mrs. Gwen Kao
Chairman,
Charles K. Kao Foundation for Alzheimer’s Disease

Dr. William Lo
Governors & Executive Committee,
Charles K. Kao Foundation for Alzheimer’s Disease

Dr. Edmund Lee
Executive Director,
Hong Kong Design Centre

Mr. Bryant Lu
Top notch architect

Mrs. Cynthia Luk
CEO,
St. James’ Settlement

Prizes


Champion :
Cambridge University Study tour

First Runner-up :
Scholarship

Second Runner-up :
Vouchers

Merit Awards :
The finalists will be awarded with attractive prizes

(There are a champion, a 1st runner-up and a 2nd runner-up for each group)


Competition Rules and Terms


  • Each student can only join ONE team and multiple entries are not allowed.
  • Participating teams must provide all information requested in the application form. Any false information found will result in disqualification.
  • Those, under the age of 18 years of age, need to submit a Declaration of Application signed by their parents or guardians or teachers.
  • All finalist teams must attend the free workshops held by the organizer, otherwise their competition work will be considered incomplete.
  • Participating teams, who for any reasons drop out from the competition, cannot complete the competition within the said period, or did not follow the competition rules, will be regarded as having forfeited their eligibility.
  • Entries must be original designs or invention. Any plagiarism will result in immediate disqualification.
  • The organizer is not responsible for any LOST, STOLEN OR DAMAGED designs.
  • Each finalist team will be entitled to a maximum of HK$500 allowance to make a model and is required to produce valid documents (i.e. receipts) when claiming the allowances. Any addition costs will be the responsibility of the participating team.
  • Prizes may not be transferred or redeemed for cash.
  • The organizer reserves the right to cancel, modify or suspend the competition. The participating teams are not entitled to claim any compensation if such cancellation or modification occurs.
  • The organizer reserves the final right of adjudication on all matters related to this competition.

Frequently Asked Questions


  • If my design had received awards in other competitions, can I reuse the design to participate in this competition? Or can I reuse my design which had joined other competition?
  • No, you cannot and this competition does not accept any design which was used in other competitions or any designs that had been award-winning.

  • Can I sell this design from this competition to a third party?
  • Yes, but you must declare to the third-party that the World Green Organization owns and reserves to the right to promote this design.

  • Can I submit more than one design to participate in this competition?
  • No, you cannot. Each team can only submit ONE design for this competition.

  • I’m not a design student, so I do not have design-related knowledge or have received relevant training and can I participate in this competition?
  • Yes you can. No matter what subject you are studying, you can join this competition as long as you are either a Secondary or full-time Tertiary student in Hong Kong.

  • In this competition, do I need to produce a prototype or a scale down model, or simply provide “Design Concepts”?
  • In the preliminary round, teams are only required to submit “Design Concepts”, without making any product prototypes or models. While for the final round, finalist teams can produce a model to show their design concepts. A maximum of HK$500 model production allowance will be provided for this purpose.

  • Is this competition free of charge?
  • Yes, this competition is free of charge.

  • Can overseas students participate in this competition?
  • This competition will only accept full-time tertiary students and secondary students in Hong Kong.

  • I would like to submit my design by using AutoCAD 2D/3D formats, with plan view / isometric view / perspective view, is it possible?
  • You may use AutoCAD 2D/3D formats, with plan view / isometric view / perspective view but you have to save your design in one PDF format for submission.

  • Can I use the design from this competition for other uses?
  • Yes, but in any case, WGO owns and reserves the rights to promote this design.

  • Can I submit sketches?
  • Yes. You can submit sketches but they must be in PDF format.

  • We wish to submit interactive design and animation to enhance the impact, can’t we?
  • All designs’ format must be in one PDF file and we will not accept any other format.

  • Can we send all photos / sketches / isometric views / perspective views / renderings combined as a single file?
  • You may put all the relevant materials into one PDF file and send it to us by e-mail.