Presented with
Sustainable Urban Communities
How can urban communities increase their access to sustainable and resilient food and water sources?
Submissions are Closed
Arts & Culture Mentorship Prize Judges
Laura Callanan
Founding Partner, Upstart Co-Lab
Rachel Goslins
Director, Arts & Industries Building, Smithsonian Institution
Leila W. Kinney
Executive Director of Arts Initiatives and of the MIT Center for Art, Science & Technology (CAST)
Scot Osterweil
Creative Director, Education Arcade; Research Director, MIT Comparative Media Studies/Writing Program
Paul Sznewajs
Executive Director, Ingenuity
Leadership
Mariana Arcaya
Assistant Professor of Urban Planning and Public Health, MIT
Alain Chuard
Entrepreneur. Former Googler. Founder & Chief Product Officer at Wildfire (acquired by Google)., Wildfire Interactive, Inc.
United States
Lisa Dickson
Resilience Leader, Arup
Hervé P. Duteil
Managing Director, Regional Coordinator for Corporate Social Responsibility & Sustainable Finance, Americas, BNP Paribas
Nadia el Hadery
CEO and Founder, YFood
Thomas Ermacora
Urbanist, Technologist, and Futurist, Machines Room, Clear Village & Recoded City
United Kingdom
Dr. Chandra Madramootoo
James McGill Professor of Bioresource Engineering, McGill University; Visiting Scholar, Water and Food Security, MIT
Chelina Odbert
Co-Founder and Executive Director, Kounkuey Design Initiative
Victoria Ransom
Founder & CEO, Wildfire
Kazunao Sato
Senior Manager, Legacy Planning and Produce Department, Dentsu, Inc
Gunhild Stordalen
President and Founder, EAT Foundation
Ryan Whalen
Director, Initiatives and Strategy, The Rockefeller Foundation
Judging Criteria
Solutions will be evaluated based on the following criteria.
Alignment
The solution addresses the challenge that has been set forth using technology.
Scalability
The solution can be grown and scaled to affect the lives of more people.
Potential for Impact
The planned implementation of the solution has the potential to impact lives, and the theory behind how it will work makes logical sense.
Novelty
This is a new technology, a new application of a technology, or a new process for solving the challenge.
Feasibility
It is feasible to implement the solution, and the team has a plan for the solution to sustain itself financially.
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