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BE OPEN congratulates the first winners of Better Energy by Design competition focused on SDG#7
BE OPEN strongly believes that creativity is integral in the shift to sustainable existence. Design has a crucial role to play as an instrument or vehicle for the implementation of the SDGs.
Achievement of SDG7 is impossible without ensuring that a growing number of households, communities and production companies use green energy technologies. Therefore the participants were asked to reflect on "What can be done to prompt breakthrough of clean energy technologies into our lives?"
on the finalization of the project
The winners of the First, Second and Third Prizes have been selected by an international jury:
The First prize of €5,000 goes to Miguel Acebron , a young architect from the
University of Navarra in
Spain , for the prototype of , a new take on a traditional Spanish porous clay vessel used to cool water. Miguel's prototype allows cooling the contents of the Botijo below 5ºC by boosting the drying of the outer surface with an air flow. The BOTIJO is the first passive fridge that preserves medicines and fresh food in stable thermal conditions.
The Second prize of €3,000 is awarded to Qin Zhou from School of Design, Zhejiang Sci-tech University, China , for The project researches the feasibility of transforming human kinetic energy into usable electric energy by using the piezoelectric effect of 2D material nanofibers such as MoS2 in clothing.
The Third prize of €2,000 goes to Naama Nicotra , an industrial designer and a recent BA in industrial design from the Holon Institute of Technology, Israel . Naama's is a concept series of "naked" food dishes wrapped in algae-based bioplastic that can be augmented with spices and cooked and eaten with its contents.
The (€3,000) will soon be allocated by the Founder of BE OPEN Elena Baturina, and the fate of the (€2,000) will be decided by the ongoing online vote.
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