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HACKCITY URBAN DESIGN CHALLENGE
100
Moving
Pixels
Co-build a self-organizing sustainable city with 100 modular moving spaces
PRIZE FUND
37,000$
CONSTRUCTION TIME
2023
REGISTRATION DEADLINE
09 Dec. 2022


COMPETITION CONTEXT
According to Wiener’s Cybernetics, a city's complex changing orders necessitate a dynamic loop of "feedback-adjustments" to preserve its inner balance. However, modern cities are now patternized and plagued by issues like traffic congestion, over-centralization etc. and reluctanct to react dynamically to the changing needs of people.
Earlier in 1964, Archigram proposed a visionary, but contentious, solution called "Plug-in City," in which living spaces became "capsules" with personalized designs that were plugged into the city. The plug-in city is ideally installed by a massive crane, which appeared unrealistic at the moment and could not be finished.

Hopefully, with autonomous chassis and other new technologies available today, the "crane" and "capsules" will be replaced with dynamic moving spaces - Robobus. This led to the introduction of PIXCITY as a sustainable superorganism and an organized prototype running based on moving spaces.

Igniting ideas and designs has become an urgent need. Hackcity, a PIX Moving design Hackthon, is where urban designers, urban planners, architects, architectural institutions and even students can share talents and intelligence. We refer the participants as "city hackers" in recognition of the contribution that you will make to the community and city of the future.
Before the event, all city hackers will gather in a PIXCITY DAO Discord community to connect and build teams.
You are encouraged to improvise from the following, but not limited to, three perspectives:
1. To create various real-life scenarios of moving space used in the smart city
2. To address the issues afflicting modern cities
3. To plan a '15-minute' community ecosystem

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PRIZES

37,000$
Total Prize Fund

"THE FUTURE CITY AWARD | VILLE FUTUR"
The design outcome meets the criteria of being shareable, configurable, connectable and achievable, and has the potential to be landed in a way that effectively making the urban space autonomously mobile, responding to the demands of citizens, and maximizing the quality of life of future residents
2ND PRIZE
7,000 $
Project Landing Opportunities
Trophy
Exhibition and Forum Promotion
NFT Collaboration
1ST PRIZE
15,000 $
3RD PRIZE
5,000 $
Project Landing Opportunities
Trophy
Exhibition and Forum Promotion
NFT Collaboration
Project Landing Opportunities
Trophy
Exhibition and Forum Promotion
NFT Collaboration
PIXCITY Urban CHO Medal of Honor
CG Animation Promotion
“THE GENESIS CITY AWARD | VILLE GENESIS”
Most Popular Award.
5,000 $
Trophy
Exhibition and Forum Promotion
NFT Collaboration
"THE RADIANT CITY AWARD | VILLE RADIEUSE"
Most Humanistic Valued Award.
5,000 $
Trophy
Exhibition and Forum Promotion
NFT Collaboration
Prizes
JURY PANEL
JURY PANEL
All jury members will also participate in open lecture during design phase and share their insightful urban expertise

Maria Fedorchenko
Urban Consultant
Co-Director of
Karta Architecture Ltd
Diploma Unit Master of
Architectural Association

Ivan
Tallarico
Founder and CEO of
Hi-Interiors
Ecosystem Builder of
DesignTech

Susan
Du
Head of Business Development
at BIG

Ling
Fan
Founder and CEO of
Tezign
Director of
Tongji University Design A.I. Lab

Benjamin Chan
Director of
LWK + PARTNERS

Biao
Hu
Director of Environmental Planning and Design Department Hunan University

Tiantian
Lo
Assistant Professor of
The Hong Kong Polytechnic University School of Design

Tommaso Boralevi
President of
Federal Innovation @MIND
CTO of
LendLease

Enea
Colombo
General Manager of
Icona Design Group
Leader of
Icona Smart City Project

Chuan
Yu
CEO of
PIX Moving
The skeptic of static cities
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