After the qualification round on July 7th 32 teams have been determined to be eligible for the VDWC competition. Next, teams will continue to work on their projects to prepare them for submission for the Design Festival being held in November. 

Now, FORUM8 will continue to hold the final screening, results presentation, and award ceremony in Tokyo in November. If travel is difficult due to restrictions on travel, all teams will be allowed to present online for the final screening. Every year we provide the travel expenses to Japan for 2 team members (Flights, Hotels, etc.) of the qualified teams. In the unlikely event that the event is held online, FORUM8 is planning to arrange a 100,000 JPY package to nominees. We appreciate your participation and look forward to your project submissions.  

  ■ Judges Comment

 While the competition description was set up before the advent of covid-19, you are allowed, encouraged, or expected to address this immense global development in both a theoretical as well as practical manner. Please use the software tools to address, simulate, or even predict possible scenarios for communication and transportation of the future city. Remote communication, social distancing, or VR are not only solutions of physical inability but also an opportunity to create new social and urban visions. In general, you need to start thinking about how the design will emerge, and most importantly how circulation, communication, and traffic will be addressed in the future city. As you know, the use of the software tools is required so you need to concentrate on simulations to prove your point. Be careful not to overdo the use of tools. Instead, concentrate on a few areas and work on them. A project with a tighter focus and deeper simulations will be more appreciated than a broader project with few simulations. Also keep in mind that the final presentation, animation, and scripts are very important as well.

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Due to the environmental issues, economic concentration, and fragility of the ground in the current capital Jakarta, Indonesian government decided to move the capital to Kalimantan and chose 5 excellent ideas in a competition calling for the basic concept.

In the new capital building planning, the government is aiming at constructing the "Forest City" ensuring the sustainability to next generation. In this plan, the construction will start in 2021 and develop 200,000 hectare by 2045. It is expected that the rain forests in Borneo will be an Asian-style ecological smart city model.

This year, the VDWC committee expects participants to create proposals of future city life where new mobilities using the autonomous driving technology are realized. Competitors can create a master plan based on the excellent ideas of basic concept competition or based on their original concept, but the plan should focus on the mobility space.

In the future, residents living in this new capital will have no distinction between public mass transit and personal means of transportation, nor between livelihood support by wheelchair and robots.
Being free from driving and traffic jam, they will discover an entirely new mobility mixturing the nature around them and the digital entertainments. In other words, even buildings and rooms will be part of mobility life.
Also, the life nearby the nature in jungles where various creatures live may be realized, or the autonomous traffic control may solve issues such as flooding by unprecedented ways and ensures the resiliency in the capital.

The future autonomous driving technology has the potential to change the way people take measures against traffic issues and disasters, and at the same time change the kind of experience they can get while driving or riding a vehicle of the future. With this in mind, contestants are expected to demonstrate through visual simulation how the future autonomous driving technology will function and lead to making these changes, and present their ideas.

Considering the above, the VDWC committee is looking forward to BIM/CIM utilizations combining VR data and at least 2 design results such as architectural structure design, environmental design, disaster mitigation means, and road structures including bridge and tunnel corresponded to autonomous driving.

1. How to register
Please register and submit your work plan during the registration period (Thu. April 2 – Tue. June 30, 2020).
Works submitted will be judged on an anonymous basis. Please choose a team name and title by which an individual or group CANNOT be identified.
To register, please complete the page accessible from the button below with your team name, team members, etc.

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• Incorporation of BIM/CIM and VR concepts
• Conception time
• Design quality
• Logicality and technical capability
• Aesthetic appeal and originality
• Presentation skills

• Access project data and material
• Edit or reproduce created media (images or video)
• Post or introduce it on websites, magazines, books, newspapers etc. as a sales activity or an advertisement

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