Student Design Awards winners: Powering people
Brief 2: How might we make community-led renewable energy transitions accessible to everyone, including those most in need?
Winner: Fishing for Power
Using portable wave energy systems to create economic opportunities for women living in coastal communities through a co-operative business model.
Fishing for power is an innovative proposal harnessing energy through multiple wave- harvesting buoys attached to a battery storage unit on a fishing boat that collects energy and transfers to battery bank owned by a community co-operative. The energy would be purchased and used in the community to solve fish harvest storage problems, enable a sustainable source of income and reduce reliance on fossil fuels.
Sagufta Janif
Brunel University, England
Winner of £2,000 RSA Fellows Award
Commended entries
Highly commended
Millie Falla, Loughborough University, England
PowerUp: An accessible, decentralised and community-led gym with a holistic approach to addressing both energy needs and community empowerment.
Tomás Coleman and John Fawcett-Peck, National College of Art and Design, Dublin, Ireland
RetroQuick Rex: An energy saving toolkit to insulate and educate the user.
Reuben Riddiough, Leeds Beckett University, England
Solar Charged Communities: A charging system for community centre users to help raise awareness and participation of renewable energy.
Commended
Anastasia Egeressy, Brunel University London, England
PLAY WITH ENERGY: An educational micro-grid school playground for children to generate renewable energy for their community.
The standard of all entries was excellent and it was a difficult decision to pick a winner. This is a great opportunity for students to develop their presentation and project skills, and to back up their work to a panel of judges. A must for anyone's CV.
