Summit 2024 Winners

UT Austin Overall Winner Anya Koehne. Photo Credits: Shannon Carroll/Vivid Story.

Universidad del Istmo Runner-Up Team. Photo Credits: Shannon Carroll/Vivid Story.

OVERALL WINNER Consume Our Consumption

UT Austin – Anya Koehne, Annan Zuo

RUNNER-UP Kan beh

Universidad del Istmo – Gabriel de la Cerda, Jimena Flores, Ana Paula López, Evelin Sagastume, Allison Reyes, Cesira Cozzarelli, Silvana Jurado, Isabella Yu-Shan, Natalia Arriola, Ángel Gabriel Dardón, Randy Rivera

OUTSTANDING HIGH SCHOOL PROJECT WINNER relaxsense

Grace Church School – Gillian Booker, Chloe Katsiris, Arianna Antonio Juarez

OUTSTANDING SOCIAL CRITIQUE Urban Vein

Nanyang Technological University – Bao Hanyu, Kee Kaixuan, Joshua Dato On

OUTSTANDING SCIENCE Shell We Dance?

California College of the Arts, Architecture + UC San Francisco – Miti Mehta, Negar Hosseini, Kianoush Hamedi, Jesus Guillermo Macias Franco, Alex Hong, Claire Kokontis, Camille Moore

OUTSTANDING NARRATIVE symbiotic stitches

Maryland Institute College of Art – Maia Malakoff, Kat Luna, Leyi Guo, Austin Chia, Jingwen Zhang, Nadia Nazar, Mantis Harper-Blanco

OUTSTANDING Display from the ashes

Auburn University – Emiko Benton, Robert Gleason, Evan Phillips, Carly DeSimone, Rae Nawrocki

Outstanding Field Research Salt minds

College for Creative Studies – Andrea Wittner, Vivyan Zhang, Yostina Kaoud

Outstanding art phen

Moholy-Nagy University of Art and Design – Somogyvári Szonja, Gulya Nóra, Nagy Csongor Boldizsár

Outstanding digital submission Mirage: Eco Solutions from Marble Remnants

The Design Village – Divyansh Jain, Prakriti, Raghav Modi, Vedangi Rane

SCIENCE SANDBOX PRIZE FOR PUBLIC ENGAGEMENT BIOMATRIX: Weaving Sustainability

EASD Castelló – Ana Pérez Blanco, Gema Madueño Marco, Angela Aparici Salvador, Gabriel Nicusor Roata, Erika De Libano Nebot, Ángeles García Moya, Sara Vidal Belda

OUTSTANDING INSTRUCTOR devon ward, auburn university

TOP 8 FINALIST TEAMS

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Location

June 13, 8:30am – 6:00pm | The New School, Johnson Hall
66 W 12th Street, New York, NY 10011

June 13, 6:00pm – 8:00pm | Summit Gallery exhibition - The New School, Arnhold Hall
55 W 13th Street, 2nd Floor New York, NY 10011

June 14, 8:30am – 5:00pm | The Museum of Modern Art, Titus 1 Theater
11 West 53rd Street New York, NY 10019
(Please check in at The Ronald S. and Jo Carole Lauder building entrance (MoMA Film entrance) east of the main entrance on W 53rd St.)

Schedule

  • The New School Johnson Hall (66 W 12th St)

    8:30 AM Registration opens

    9:00 AM Welcome address

    9:20 AM Opening Speaker

    9:50 AM Registration closes

    10:00 AM Presentations

    A106 Auditorium – CCA Architecture + UCSF: Shell we dance?

    A510 Klein Conference Room – SAIC: GM Paperworks

    A407 Lecture Hall – Universidad de los Andes: Paramus

    A404 Lecture Hall – CCA Design: Slice of Life

    10:15 AM Presentations

    A106 Auditorium – UNIS: Kan Beh

    A510 Klein Conference Room – MICA: Symbiotic Stitches

    A407 Lecture Hall – Parsons Team 1: Awayste

    A404 Lecture Hall – Spelman: PlantGPT

    10:30 AM Presentations

    A106 Auditorium – SFSU Team 2: Sustainable Materials Library

    A510 Klein Conference Room – New Design High School Team 2: UpCycle

    A407 Lecture Hall – Moholy-Nagy University: pHen

    A404 Lecture Hall – UMich: BacteriaVape

    10:45 AM Presentations

    A106 Auditorium – RIT: SPRu

    RA510 Klein Conference Room – UT Austin: Consume Our Consumption

    A407 Lecture Hall – New Design High School Team 1: Soundproof Tapestry

    A404 Lecture Hall – University del Desarrollo: ZOOA

    11:00 AM Break

    11:15 AM Presentations

    A106 Auditorium – Alisal HS: S.A.S.S (Small Artificial Shape Structures)

    A510 Klein Conference Room – FIT: Terra-Domus

    A407 Lecture Hall – Auburn: From the Ashes

    A404 Lecture Hall – University of Nebraska-Lincoln: MicroMeals

    11:30 AM Presentations

    A106 Auditorium – University of Richmond: Ivy Sparks

    A510 Klein Conference Room – University of New Mexico: Lo-TEK-TAT

    A407 Lecture Hall – Grace Church: RelaxSense

    A404 Lecture Hall – NYU IDM: In Between Us

    11:45 AM Presentations

    A106 Auditorium – McGill: Kelserra

    A510 Klein Conference Room – SFSU Team 1: Cloud Heaven

    A407 Lecture Hall – Drexel: Collected Dermafutures

    A404 Lecture Hall – BioBus + ISLA: ECOLinea

    12:00 PM Break

    12:15 PM BDC x NEW INC Panel

    1:00 PM Lunch

    2:20 PM In Conversation: Building a Biodesign Community with Latasha Wright (BioBus) and Vanessa Fleury (Genspace)

    3:00 PM Presentations

    A106 Auditorium – UC Berkeley: SlimeMobile

    A510 Klein Conference Room – DreamYard: Experimenting with Bioplastics

    A407 Lecture Hall – UPenn: Stellar Bloom

    A404 Lecture Hall – College for Creative Studies: Salt Minds

    3:15 PM Presentations

    A106 Auditorium – Science Sandbox - EASD: BIOmatrix

    A510 Klein Conference Room – Northumbria: nos

    A407 Lecture Hall – NYU ITP: Geobsecure

    A404 Lecture Hall – Rye Country Day School: PolyNation

    3:30 PM Presentations

    A106 Auditorium – Science Sandbox - Parsons Team 2: Terrible Ideas

    A510 Klein Conference Room – Nanyang Technological University: Urban Vein

    4:00 PM Closing Address

    6:00 PM Gallery Show
    The New School, Arnhold Hall - Theresa Lang Center | 55 W 13th Street, 2nd Floor New York, NY 10011

  • Titus 1 Theater | 11 West 53rd Street New York, NY 10019

    8:30 AM Registration opens

    9:00 AM Welcome address and finalist announcement

    9:10 AM Performance + Meditation: Laura Splan

    9:30 AM Speaker - ecoLogic Studio

    10:00 AM Finalist Team 1 Presentation

    10:15 AM Finalist Team 2 Presentation

    10:30 AM Finalist Team 3 Presentation

    10:45 AM Finalist Team 4 Presentation

    11:00 AM Break

    11:15 AM Finalist Team 5 Presentation

    11:30 AM Finalist Team 6 Presentation

    11:45 AM Finalist Team 7 Presentation

    12:00 PM Finalist Team 8 Presentation

    12:15 PM Lunch

    Here is a list of public spaces near MoMA for taking lunch.

    2:30 PM Performance - Smita Sen

    3:00 PM Special Announcement

    3:10 PM Outstanding Digital Submission Winner Video

    3:20 PM Awards and closing address

    3:50 PM Photos

Summit Speakers

Performers

 
 

Gallery Show: Cultivating Connection

This year’s gallery exhibition, Cultivating Connection, is a celebration of student projects from around the world. The exhibition commemorates the myriad ways that teams have explored themes of connection through our relationship to nature, technology, and each other.

When: Thursday June 13, 6:00-8:00 p.m.

Where: Arnhold Hall - Theresa Lang Center, 55 W 13th St, 2nd Floor, New York, NY 10011

Nanyang Technological University team sharing their project Urban Vein at the BDC Summit 2024 Gallery Show, Cultivating Connection. Photo credit: Patrick Leiphart @patrickleiphartphotography.

Summit Judges

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The Biodesign Challenge Summit 2024 is made possible by the New York State Council on the Arts with the support of the Office of the Governor and the New York State Legislature.

This program is supported, in part, by public funds from the New York City Department of Cultural Affairs in partnership with the City Council.