🥇   Gold Winner

Ecological Samsara – Soundscape Transformation of Parkwood Springs

by Baoyi Huang / Educator: David Buck

A pilgrimage through sound and landscape regeneration.

🥈   Silver Winner

Parallaxe – AI as a mediator in political discussions

by Chantal Pisarzowski / Educator: Andreas Ingerl

Parallaxe is an AI-mediated dialogue system that matches people with opposing political views and facilitates structured conversation through a multi-agent moderator. The system de-escalates charged language, verifies factual claims in real time, and makes underlying arguments transparent – turning political disagreement into a constructive, evidence-based exchange.

MaternLink - The Lifeline for Mothers

by Reva Rajgariah, Tulsi Nyati / Educator: Sonal Nigam

MaternLink is a maternal-health logistics system designed for rural Nigeria that connects mothers, traditional birth attendants, drivers, and health centres through a coordinated digital and human network. It enables early pregnancy registration, emergency transport matching, and real-time PHC readiness tracking to reduce delays in seeking, reaching, and receiving maternal care.

CutisRANA: Amphibious Workwear for Future Wetland Life

by Ni Xinghao, Rongwei Yan, Du Wang / Educator: Jaime Bautista, Simon Lozac'h, Olivier Heinry, Zaki Jawhari

CutisRANA is a speculative amphibious workwear system developed through fashion design, digital visualization, and sustainable material research. Inspired by Blue Economy challenges and rising sea levels, the project proposes intelligent waterproof garments integrating ecological materials, wearable technology, and a scalable circular production model for future wetland living and work.

🥉   Bronze Winner

PILIYON

by Chihiro Aizawa, Tact Inoue / Educator: Shinichi Ito, Takaaki Bando

Crayons made using pili nuts harvested in Sorsogon, Philippines. By creating molds from the natural form of the pili nut, the crayons preserve and reflect its organic beauty. Not only are they visually appealing, but their three-sided shape also makes them easy to grip.

KI MONO

by Alice Gielen Kataoka / Educator: Loe Feijs

A kimono garment translating Japanese kasuri logic into a knitted textile through algorithmic, AI-enabled dye patterning. Based on Kurume Kasuri, I developed a low-cost open-source dye device that allows color to be algorithmically programmed at garment scale, enabling sustainable experimentation with zero water waste.

ALUA

by Camilla Vicario, Davide Benetton, Camilla Costato, Alice D’Andrea, Sofia Splendore, Francesco Zanchetta / Educator: Francesco E. Guida

ALUA it's an insurance agency which regulates human relationships, transforming feelings into insurance policies.

Missing Child Menu

by Jiwon Moon, Mingook Cho, Suhui Han, Solbee Park, Hojun Kim, Minseo Lee, Minju Park, Taeeun Oh, Hyeonji Na / Educator: Junoh Lee

To find a child, Order more.

Culm Chair

by Shunnosuke Sannomiya / Educator: Yamanaka Kazuhiro, Ito Shinichi

Research into a new bamboo lumbering method to replace engineered wood, and the design of chairs that blend into modern living environments.

FLOW WITH THE TIDE, THRIVE WITH THE GREEN

by Gia Trang Ngô, Phi Nhi Le Dao, Anh Kiet Do, Ha Linh Ly, Gia Nghi Huynh / Educator: Tran Mai Anh

The project transforms invasive water hyacinths into adaptive floating workspaces for rural women in Vi Thuy. By mimicking the plant’s buoyancy, the modular design provides a resilient livelihood solution that synchronizes with the Mekong Delta's water cycles, preserving traditional weaving heritage while fostering ecological and community symbiosis.

🎖️  Honorable Mention

ALDA!

by Min Young Jung / Educator: Deh Won Joo

ALDA! focuses on enduring values in the AI era: parent-child bonding and direct nature observation. The core "Dual-Perspective Book" pairs emotional stories for children with scientific insights for parents to encourage communication. Modular observation tools stimulate curiosity and creativity, transforming nature into a shared playground for building deep family relationships.

The Emptied House

by Joohyun Lee / Educator: Wangdon Choi

This project proposes a prototype for a memorial space attuned to death in Korea—an architectural attempt to reopen the discourse on death and reinterpret the essence of Korean architectural spirit, 'a space filled through emptiness', from a contemporary perspective.

Invasive Matters

by Ashli Watson / Educator: Rhea Alexander

Invasive Matters advances a climate-adaptive circular manufacturing model, transforming invasive plant biomass into high-performance, non-toxic biomaterials for design and construction. Integrating ecological removal protocols with regenerative native planting, the project diverts biomass waste streams and proposes scalable industrial design systems rooted in ecological restoration, material innovation, and long-term environmental stewardship.

THREE TREE STAND

by FUMIKA ORIHARA / Educator: Kazuhiro Yamanaka

The slight misalignment created when books are stacked sideways reveals a natural, imperfect beauty. This book stand embraces that subtle irregularity, allowing books to be stored while preserving their organic rhythm. From any angle and in any orientation, the form remains visually balanced and striking.

Internal Manufacturing

by Ore Snir / Educator: Alon Chitayat

Internal Manufacturing transforms live machine data- CPU, memory, battery, and network activity- into physical form, allowing a 3D printer’s internal state to shape ceramic vessels in real time. The project reframes digital fabrication as a human–machine collaboration, where computational fluctuations become a source of uniqueness and authorship.

The Fish Renaissance

by Ho Hang Sit / Educator: Runa Johannessen

Fish Renaissance reimagines a former transit shed at Aberdeen Harbour as a fish auction hall and food market. Once animated by open fish markets before the oil era, the harbour is now a privatized logistical zone. The project restores civic access through adaptive reuse, circular materials, and intelligent building systems.

Toneo

by Jang Eunhye, Seo Hyeon Cho, Yujin Jung, Hyunbin Seo / Educator: Heeju Kim, Olivia Youngeun Kang

Modular AI speaker for family link gentle bonding!

knoto - Rope Based Building Kit

by Daniela Drits, Lihi Azizi, Lynn Maister / Educator: Michal Pauzner, Yoav Gati, Dafna Bloch

knoto is a rope-based building kit system enabling children to build imaginary structures using branches, and found natural materials. Inspired by an elementary school in South Tel Aviv, the project extends improvisational play beyond the site, prioritizing sustainability by transforming the environment into a collaborative construction resource without damaging it.

Ecdysis

by Eunhu Choi (South Korea) / Educator: Jaeyoung Lee

Ecdysis proposes a system modeled after biological molting to embed renovation within the architectural experience. It redefines construction as a dynamic cycle of growth and shedding, allowing the building to evolve through continuous environmental transformation.

Choreographic Pattern

by Goeun Park / Educator: Suzung Kim

Choreographic Pattern is a new dance scores translating movement, energy, time, and space into visual patterns as a tool for analyzing and generating choreography.

Closed Loop Footwear

by Dominik Scherrer / Educator: Magnus Feil, Thomas Feichtner

Closed Loop Footwear is a modular sneaker designed for the circular economy. It combines self assembly, repairability, and disassembly to extend product lifecycles and achieve recyclability or compostability of all components. 

MUSUBI Craft connections between cultures, generations, and territories. Exploring Japanese and Italian handcrafts and the role of education, transmission and promotion in the sustainable preservation of their heritage system

by Lucrezia Piccari / Educator: Silvia Barbero, Shimizu Shigeatsu, Asja Aulisio, Mariapaola Puglielli

This research explores traditional crafts in Japan and Italy by applying Systemic Design to this unconventional field. It examines how education, knowledge transmission, and promotion can preserve and renew heritage systems while fostering sustainable cultural value and stronger connections between communities, artisans, and places.

Thousand and One Hands, Thousand and One Eyes

by Seungjun Park / Educator: Heo Junghyun

Reinterpreting Avalokiteśvara’s Thousand Hands and Thousand Eyes, this project imagines the “1001st hand and eye” as an AI-driven robotic arm. Using sensors, environmental data, and audience voices, the installation transforms collective signals into drawings, proposing a contemporary embodiment of compassion through technology, perception, and participation.

Kan

by Maria Kurata / Educator: Kazuya Matsumoto

Functional candy products designed to maintain and improve oral functions.

Danmaku Guerrilla: When Comments Become Reality

by Ma Luyao, Lan Wang, Xiyan Yu / Educator: Zhipeng Wang, Jiamin Fan

Send bullet comments—AR paves the way! This is a "catwalk" experiment action of floor washer, with the work recording what is experienced during the action from the perspective of the floor washer, netizen comments generate real-time AR content, creating an equal, open, and relaxed interactive relationship within the online environment.

Zio Lupo - Interactive Tale

by Andrea Conti, Elena Marchi, Francesco Serafini / Educator: Giorgio Dall'Osso - Silvia Gasparotto

Zio Lupo is an interactive experience that merges design, theater, and AI to pass down a fairy tale from the oral tradition. Countering digital isolation, it prioritizes human connection by entrusting the pacing to a 'Game Master'. A physical interface fosters collaboration, combining cultural valorization with socially inclusive technology.

Exhibition Venue Design and Construction Practical Education Program "Fuminori Nousaku ＋ Mio Tsuneyama: URBAN FUNGUS――Architecture is a Complex Ⅿesh" Aichi Traveling Exhibition

by Misaki Tanahashi, Rin Matsuzawa, Haruto Yamada / Educator: Yuji Shimizu, Satoshi Kuboi, Masumi Tone

From 2000 to 2025, Our University's Department of Architecture and Interior Design has held the TOTO Gallery Ma Traveling Exhibition every year in the Tokai region. At Our University, third-year students have been designing and constructing the exhibition space of the exhibition venue as a six-month class.

Designing Towards the Permanent Culture

by Lorenzo Longieri / Educator: Davide Fassi

Designing Towards the Permanent Culture is a reflexive card deck that helps academically trained designers understand care ethics as a decolonial, more-than-human approach to innovation. Drawing on Permaculture, a grassroots design culture grounded in care, it reinterprets its design principles into an accessible pocket guide for design thinking.

EHRA: Emergency Heat Response Aid

by Eunbin Seo, Sua Kim, Yuanlijin Zhu, JiYeon Chung, Chaeyoung Shim / Educator: Sangwon Lee, Jeesun Oh

EHRA is an emergency cooling mat designed for rapid response to heat-related illness. Its intuitive design allows anyone to use it instantly without prior knowledge. It adapts to different body types and maximizes cooling contact with key vascular areas, enabling effective treatment even when the patient is unconscious.

Chorale

by Duru Kalay, Beyza Eylul Ergun, Gaia Zamuner, Laura Maria Mihalcea, Nina Mesias / Educator: Prof. Dr. Elisa Giaccardi, Dr. Francesco Vergani, Dr. Salvatore Andolina

Chorale is an interactive installation that reimagines AI beyond extractive paradigms, inspired by coral reef intelligence. Visitors embody reef entities and negotiate consent with fragile AI nodes through sound, light, and movement. Acting only through multispecies alignment, proposing relational, regenerative model of intelligence grounded in coexistence rather than control.

The Spinning Windsail

by Samantha Chan / Educator: Anneli Giencke

A beach shade made to catch wind, blow cooler air over hot sand to make it nicer to walk on, and give people a comfy shaded spot underneath with spinning sails above.

Aquopia - a slow transition toward collective resilience through gradual adaptation

by Mili KIM, Narosa Long / Educator: Jaime BAUTISTA, Simon LOZAC'H, Olivier HENRY, Zaki JAWHARI, Johan CARELLI, Namratha VAIDYA

Aquopia proposes a slow transition toward living with water in coastal Vendée. Instead of relocating communities threatened by sea level rise, the project transforms flooded land into adaptive housing, ecological production systems, and collective infrastructure, allowing residents to remain, protect their territory, and gradually adapt to a changing coastal environment.

DUAN XU AN KANG-a rural initiative for life's serenity and artistic healing

by Gao Yiting, Jiajun Wang, Haochen Xu / Educator: Wang Rong, Jiang Min

This project integrates the Western concept of end-of-life care with the traditional architectural style of Xiangbei Dawu in Eastern China and the new Chinese interior design style. It aims to provide a peaceful, dignified, and emotionally supportive spatial environment for individuals at the end of their lives and their families.

Heldby Wire

by Young ho Kim / Educator: Park Chan Il

Held by Wires transforms the remnants of war into a living monument of memory. In a ruined Ukrainian village, drone wires support structures where visitors tie fabric and leave notes. Rejecting the permanence of Western monuments, the space evolves through participation, embodying a process that moves beyond East and West.

Intra-block

by Riley Montgomery, Brianna Manzor / Educator: Gabriel Cuéllar

Intra-block reimagines the suburban residential block as a cooperative urban framework where residents incrementally densify their neighborhood through adaptable housing, shared infrastructure, and bio-based construction, proposing slow, resident-led transformation as an alternative to large-scale redevelopment in response to housing precarity and climate change.

SAGA

by Jaeyoon Lee, Sun-min Park, Young-bin Kim, Ha-on Jo / Educator: Gil-ock Lee

SAGA is an AI-powered video production crew consisting of an autonomous drone and a video editing application. It quietly accompanies family journeys, capturing unforgettable moments shared with loved ones. Freeing users from any production tasks, let families forget the camera and focus on being present with one another.

BioRebirth

by Reon Ota, Janet Napa / Educator: Takashi Ogawa

Biodegradable casket for small animals | Utilizing Thailand’s botanical waste.

Eggnest

by Chaewon Lee, Jungmin Park, Jayoung Kim / Educator: Hooyoung Joo

Eggnest is an urban butterfly habitat made from eggshells and soil. Inspired by the traditional Korean wooden joint system 'Gongpo' from Hanok architecture, its interlocking modular structure forms stable shelters for butterflies while adapting to terrain, supporting pollination and urban biodiversity.

Immanence of the Heights

by Giulia Martini, Christian Conovalu / Educator: Christian Villa

Immanence of the Heights transforms the Carlo Emanuele III Shelter into a cultural and scientific hub for observing climate change. Diachronic photography and participatory data collection create a living archive built with citizens, visitors, and researchers, documenting landscape change and proposing a replicable model for fragile mountain regions.

Clover+

by Yu Jin Lee / Educator: Seungjin Chae

CLOVER is an ostomy care product designed to reduce frequent cleaning, simplify disposal, and ease the emotional burden of medical-looking appliances. Its four-part disposable pouch system allows users to detach and discard one section at a time for more intuitive and dignified daily care.