Winners of 2019 Victorian Design Challenge announced
The NGV today announces the winners of the 2019 Victorian Design Challenge – the Waste Challenge, which this year focused on reducing, recovering and eliminating waste.
THE COMPETITION
The Victorian Design Challenge is an annual competition that provokes designers to respond to significant issues that Victoria (and Australia and the world) faces and aims to inspire impactful and implementable solutions that demonstrate the value of design and creativity to the creation of a better future.
On Tuesday 19 March, the shortlisted teams pitched their design solutions to the Jury, featuring six leading design professionals, chaired by Craig Reucassal from ABC’s War on Waste and a live audience on stage in the Great Hall. Finalists presented ideas ranging from disposable plates made of lettuce to geopolymer cement made using fly ash. Teams worked to convince the judges that their idea is the best way to reduce, recover or eliminate waste.
Minister for Creative Industries Martin Foley said: “Managing waste is a complex problem that will take the best design thinking from across Victoria and the world to address. I congratulate the winners, and the Design Challenge for their focus on this critical problem.”
Minister for Environment Lily D’Ambrosio said: “It’s great to see local designers put their considerable talent towards tackling waste – undoubtedly one of the defining challenges of our future.”
THE WINNERS
The winners for the 2019 Victorian Design Challenge are:
Professional
Studio Periscope
Lisa Oaten, Robert Sim and George Berry of Studio Periscope presented Rollie, a piece of play equipment that enables students to aerate compost, while having fun. This hamster wheel-like structure uses the leg power of the children playing on it to turn over the compost, helping to create the ideal conditions for hot composting. According to Studio Periscope, Australians throw away approximately 3.1 billion tonnes or $8 billion of food waste each year. Rollie aims to address this significant waste issue by educating future generations about the value of food and food waste, through aerobic ‘hot’ composting.
Tertiary
Maddison Ryder
Royal Melbourne Institute of Technology (RMIT) student Maddison Ryder presented Lettuce Eat, a series of single use plates made from waste Iceberg lettuce that are immediately biodegradable. The project comments on behaviours of conspicuous consumption and explores food waste and throw away culture through a series of plates developed and designed from dehydrated lettuce.
Secondary and Primary School
Mill Park Library Makers Club
Twelve students from the Mill Park Library Makers Club presented Robot Walking School Bus, a robot designed to pick up students from their homes and take them to school, as well as carrying organic waste that the children bring out from their homes. Inspired by China’s line-following battery powered train, the project aims to use a Robot Walking School Bus to help better manage waste around school, in our homes and in the local community by encouraging students to walk to school and pick up litter along the way.
THE PRIZES
The Victorian Design Challenge offers prizes across three categories:
- Professional: $15 000 to realise the winning idea plus NGV Prize Packs for listed team members.
- Tertiary: $5000 to realise the winning idea plus Exclusive Growth Accelerator workshop and six x one-hour mentorship sessions delivered by EY Climate Change and Sustainability Services to guide further development and implementation of the project. Members of the Climate Change and Sustainability team at EY will volunteer their personal time in providing the mentoring sessions, plus NGV Prize Pack for listed team members.
- Schools (primary and secondary): One-day tailored learning package at the NGV for up to 50 students, including learning resources, curatorial talk, exhibition tour, lunch, transport and teacher expenses plus NGV Prize Packs for listed team members and supervisor.
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