Students, please participate in the idea contest New Forms in Student Living and create new ideas for housing! The contest is looking for user-oriented visions on future student housing that is communal, diverse, environmentally-friendly and comfortable.

In the idea contest, students from various fields form teams and take advantage of their interdisciplinary skills through latest technologies, ecological perspectives, architecture and behavioural sciences, for example. In addition to new concepts,the contest is looking for solutions to convert a building’s function to student housing. The contest entries have two specific locations: a new location in Aalto Village in Espoo and a building used by Helsinki Metropolia University of Applied Sciences in Helsinki. Entries are evaluated by the panel consisting of representatives from student organisations and various specialists. The top three teams will be awarded!

Registrations will be accepted on the website of World Student Capital project from the opening date 23 March until 30 April. The entries may be submitted from 1 May to 13 Aug. The winners will be announced in the student event Night at the Campus on 10 Sept 2012.

All undergraduate and postgraduate degree students in the higher education institutions in the cities of the design capital year may participate in the contest.

Read more about the competition and register your team here: http://worldstudentcapital.fi/en/city-home/

Discuss the competition, pose questions to the jury and find your own team:

https://www.facebook.com/groups/275832619161141/edit/

World Student Capital 2012 is the students’ own design capital project made by the student unions of higher education institutions in the metropolitan area, the University of Helsinki and Student City project of the municipalities in the metropolitan area. World Student Capital is a part of the World Design Capital Helsinki 2012 year of the University of Helsinki. http://worldstudentcapital.fi/en/