Date 30 Nov 2012 13:41:11 IST , Times of India Tags: Fashion Design
A team from Acharya Institute of Technology, Bangalore, won the maiden edition of Bosch-NID India Changers industrial design competition, organized at National Institute of Design (NID) on Thursday.
The awards have been constituted to encourage young designers to come up with socially relevant innovations. Three out of four winners were from NID Ahmedabad and Gandhinagar.
The first prize was conferred to 'eBelaku' project by Sanal Kuriakose, Madhusudhana K.P & Yashwanth Kumar B.V, students of Acharya Institute of Technology, Bangalore.
The project is a self-sufficient street lighting solution that runs on wind and solar energy and has utilities such as umbrella and drinking water tap embedded. The team won Rs 1 lakh cash prize.
Aditi Agrawal, a student of NID Ahmedabad, won the second prize for her concept 'Tri-goody Modular Bench' where three-pronged benches made out of low-cost material for sitting in public spaces can be utilized in a number of ways due to its unique shape.
Two students of NID - Sougat Hota and Sneha Ashok were given a joint third prize. Hota presented a concept of ergonomically designed toilets for the Indian Railways where the normal urinal can be converted into a full-fledged toilet with click of a button.
Ashok's project was about community trash bins for better hygiene, safe waste disposal and separation of recyclable and non-recyclable waste.
The judges included Vijay Pandey, vice-president, Bosch Power Tools Division, Michael Foley of Foley Designs, Satish Gokhale of Design Directions and Vijai Singh Katiar of NID.
Judges said that they were happy with the out of the box thinking that was relevant to contemporary social issues such as power saving, better public facilities and hygiene at the same time.
A team from Acharya Institute of Technology, Bangalore, won the maiden edition of Bosch-NID India Changers industrial design competition, organized at National Institute of Design (NID) on Thursday.
The awards have been constituted to encourage young designers to come up with socially relevant innovations. Three out of four winners were from NID Ahmedabad and Gandhinagar.
The first prize was conferred to 'eBelaku' project by Sanal Kuriakose, Madhusudhana K.P & Yashwanth Kumar B.V, students of Acharya Institute of Technology, Bangalore.
The project is a self-sufficient street lighting solution that runs on wind and solar energy and has utilities such as umbrella and drinking water tap embedded. The team won Rs 1 lakh cash prize.
Aditi Agrawal, a student of NID Ahmedabad, won the second prize for her concept 'Tri-goody Modular Bench' where three-pronged benches made out of low-cost material for sitting in public spaces can be utilized in a number of ways due to its unique shape.
Two students of NID - Sougat Hota and Sneha Ashok were given a joint third prize. Hota presented a concept of ergonomically designed toilets for the Indian Railways where the normal urinal can be converted into a full-fledged toilet with click of a button.
Ashok's project was about community trash bins for better hygiene, safe waste disposal and separation of recyclable and non-recyclable waste.
The judges included Vijay Pandey, vice-president, Bosch Power Tools Division, Michael Foley of Foley Designs, Satish Gokhale of Design Directions and Vijai Singh Katiar of NID.
Judges said that they were happy with the out of the box thinking that was relevant to contemporary social issues such as power saving, better public facilities and hygiene at the same time.
