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FourC Challenge
24小时设计挑战赛
FourC Challenge代表
创造 Create
联结 Connect
相通 Communicate
合作 Collaborate
FourC Challenge 24小时设计挑战赛旨在通过活动倡导学生关注人类社会发展趋势，在实践中创新思路，寻找解决问题的最优设计，同时要有勇气去打破和颠覆，打造具有社会和产业价值的作品，将科学理论和实践相结合，共同服务于可持续、健康、美好的人居环境营造。
自2020年起，比赛已开展四届。在过往四届比赛中，FourC Challenge跨学科、跨地域、跨学校的线上联动创新竞赛模式，吸引了来自全球多个国家近百所顶级高校千名学生参与，得到70多家专业媒体的宣传报道。它不仅仅是一个比赛，更是一个加深知识理解、与世界沟通的平台。在这24小时里，我们希望学生们能与世界相遇相知，与各国学生合作交流，通过设计推动世界更具韧性的复苏。通过设计的力量，积极影响人们的生活方式，塑造更加美好的未来。
2025·新赛制
2025年，我们将竞赛赛制大幅改进，重新起航，力求发展更贴合实际、帮助同学们更好针对可持续发展进行创新的新方式。我们与UNIDO联合国工发组织合作，获奖成果直通UNIDO Global Call中国案例库，报送今年的联合国Global Call国际竞赛，有机会获得联合国奖章，并前往沙特利雅得参与颁奖仪式。
主题聚焦
今年我们提前公布六大可持续设计方向选题，更聚焦、更前沿、更落地。
六大主题
1. 基于代际沟通的社区适老化设计
2. 未来人居呼吸健康生态设计（服务/产品/体验）
3 食品设计的可持续转型
4. 基于中草药的社区健康管理服务体系设计
5.“数字平权”视角下的包容性公共空间设计
6.“记忆激活装置”——城市历史街区的轻介入式设计
* 每个选题均会由相应领域内的资深专家进行输入和设计指导，请同学们在报名时进行选择，组委会会优先选择偏好进行跨校编组。
竞赛流程优化
轻量化成果+分阶段晋级，更增加国际荣誉
初 赛
初赛将于2025年7月12—13日完全在线进行，参赛者将根据选题进行跨校分组，以促进不同国籍和背景学生的交流和创新。比赛采用Make-a-thon形式，24小时在线创作，以方案简述文件为成果进行提交，专家幕后评审，每个选题晋级1组，公平覆盖各方向。
工作坊深化
获选的同学将获赠SJTU-UNIDO大礼包，并邀请到上海交大来参加为期一周的国际线下工作坊。时间为2025年8月24—31日，组委会将承担国内差旅和在校住宿，附赠工作坊大礼包，含精心策划的上海City Journey体验。工作坊含6次专题讲座，并由相关选题方向资深导师全程带队，UNIDO专家参与指导，深化设计方案，推动方案落地。
UNIDO GLOBAL CALL
获奖成果直通UNIDO GLOBAL CALL中国案例库，有机会获联合国奖项及利雅得颁奖邀请。
2025·新主题
第五届FourC Challenge 24小时设计挑战赛主题为“ReBalance”。在快速变化的时代，设计不仅是解决问题，更是协调矛盾、建立新的平衡关系。通过传统与现代、技术与人文、个体与系统的平衡，不仅关注“物”的设计，更关注“关系”的设计，畅想可持续未来发展。
2025·竞赛方案
本次竞赛实行定向邀请及个人自愿报名。参赛者将根据选题分组，促进不同国籍和背景学生的交流和创新。比赛采用Make-a-thon形式，24小时在线创作。来自全球优秀设计院校的代表导师将会全程指导比赛过程，同时还将邀请专家就比赛主题进行演讲，为学生们提供创新知识输入和思维启发。
竞赛形式
竞赛将采用腾讯会议，在线上展开，鼓励跨学科团队参与，主办方将邀请海内外知名高校参赛，并将参赛者混合编组，推动不同国籍及背景学生之间的思想碰撞和创新领域的探索与交流，以达到更好的交流连接目的。分组结果在竞赛当天公布。
竞赛将以Make-a-thon的方式举行，各参赛小组将在24小时内围绕主题开展线上直播创作设计。
参赛所需设备（计算机及程序软件等）及Prototype制作物料由参赛者自备。
成果产出
提交电子展示文件，由评委根据作品的创新及创意性、作品的完整性、技术合理性和作品应用前景等因素综合评审。
报名注册
本次竞赛无需缴纳报名费用。为控制比赛体验，我们仅开放部分名额，先报先得。报名截止日期2025年7月4日。请点击“阅读原文”填写提交2025 FourC Challenge Online Registration，报名审核通过后，主办方将通过电话、邮件等形式予以告知。
在线报名表链接
https://www.wjx.cn/vm/YDtib9J.aspx#
联系方式
电子邮箱：sdesign@sjtu.edu.cn
联系人 ：白老师
86400秒=1440分钟=24小时，可以是平凡的一天，也可以是充满创意及激情的一天。本设计挑战赛旨在有限时间里激发参赛者的想象力与创造力，在有限的24小时内，凝聚不同国籍及背景的青年，以不同的视角共同探索和解决社会问题，并提出具有创新性、科学性、前瞻性、实践性的设计方案。
FourC Challenge并不仅仅是一个单纯的比赛，更是一个与世界沟通，加深认知理解的平台。在这相互学习、相互沟通的24小时，我们希望学生们能够通过与世界相遇相知，与各国学子合作交流，通过设计的力量，积极影响人们的生活方式，塑造更加美好的未来。
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FourC Challenge
24-hour Design Charrette Contest
The FourC Challenge stands for
Create
Connec
Communicate
Collaborate
It advocates students pay attention to the developmental trends of human society, create innovative ideas in practice, and pursue optimal designs for solving real life problems. At the same time, they must show the courage to disrupt and subvert in order to create work with social and industrial value. By combining theory and practice, they can lay the groundwork for a sustainable, healthy, and beautiful living environment.
Since 2020, the competition has been held for four editions. Over the past four years, the FourC Challenge's interdisciplinary, cross-regional, and cross-university online collaborative innovation competition model has attracted nearly a thousand students from nearly 100 top universities in multiple countries worldwide, and has been publicized and reported by more than 70 professional media outlets. It is not just a competition, but also a platform to deepen knowledge understanding and communicate with the world. In these 24 hours, we hope that students can encounter and get to know the world, cooperate and exchange with students from various countries, and promote a more resilient recovery of the world through design. Through the power of design, we aim to positively influence people's lifestyles and shape a better future.
2025 New
Competition Format
In 2025, we will significantly improve the competition format and set sail anew, striving to develop a new approach that is more practical and helps students better innovate for sustainable development. In collaboration with the United Nations Industrial Development Organization (UNIDO), award-winning works will directly enter the UNIDO Global Call China Case Database and be submitted to this year's UN Global Call international competition. Winners will have the opportunity to receive a UN medal and attend the award ceremony in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia.
Focused Themes
Six cutting-edge sustainable design topics announced in advance, more targeted and practical.
Six Topics
1. Aging-friendly Design for Community Based on Intergenerational Communication
2. Ecological Design for Future Human Habitat Respiratory Health (Services/Products/Experiences)
3. Sustainable Transformation of Food Design
4. Design of Community Health Management Service System Based on Chinese Herbal Medicine
5. Inclusive Public Space Design from the Perspective of "Digital Equity"
6."Memory Activation Device" - A Light-Intervention Design Approach for Urban Historic Districts
* Each topic will be guided by senior experts in the corresponding field. Please select your preferred topic when registering, and the organizing committee will prioritize cross-university grouping based on your preferences.
Competition Process
Optimized Lightweight outcomes + phased advancement, with enhanced international recognition.
Preliminary Round
Preliminary Round (July 12-13, 2025): Completely online. Participants will be grouped across universities by topic to foster cross-cultural and interdisciplinary innovation. Adopting a Make-a-thon format, teams will create solutions within 24 hours and submit brief proposals. Expert judges will select 1 team per topic (6-8 teams in total) to advance, ensuring fairness across all directions.
Workshop Deepening
Workshop Deepening (August 24-31, 2025): Selected teams will receive an SJTU-UNIDO gift package and be invited to attend a one-week international offline workshop at Shanghai Jiao Tong University. The organizing committee will cover domestic travel and on-campus accommodation, and provide a workshop package including a curated Shanghai City Journey experience. The workshop includes 6 thematic lectures, guided by senior mentors and UNIDO experts to refine designs and promote implementation.
UNIDO GLOBAL CALL
Award-winning works will directly enter the UNIDO GLOBAL CALL China Case Database, with the opportunity to win UN awards and an invitation to the ceremony in Riyadh.
2025 New Topic
The theme of the 5th FourC Challenge 24-Hour Design Competition is "ReBalance". In an era of rapid change, design is no longer just about solving problems, but about reconciling contradictions and establishing new balances. By balancing tradition and modernity, technology and humanity, as well as the individual and the system, design focuses not only on the design of "objects" but also on the design of "relationships" to envision sustainable future development.
2025 Competition
Scheme
The competition is by direct invitation, along with individual registration. Participants will be signed to teams according to their interested topics to facilitate exchanges and innovation among students of different nationalities and backgrounds. The competition will follow a Make-a-thon format, allowing participants to create online for 24 hours. Representatives and mentors from outstanding design institutes worldwide will provide guidance throughout the competition. Additionally, experts will be invited to deliver speeches on the competition theme, providing innovative knowledge input and inspiring thinking for the students.
Format
The challenge will be held entirely online on voov meeting. Students will join in interdisciplinary teams. To achieve better communication and connectivity among students from different nationalities and social backgrounds, participants will be divided into mixed groups based on different majors and schools. This is also the key point of the contest—to create, connect, communicate and collaborate. The grouping results will be announced on the day of the contest.
The challenge will be in form of online Make-a-thon. The participating groups will produce creative design online within 24 hours.
Required equipment for the contest (computers, programs and software, etc) as well as prototype production materials will be provided by the participants themselves.
Results
Submit electronic display files, and the judges will comprehensively review the works based on factors such as innovation and creativity, integrity of the works, technical rationality, and application prospects of the works.
Registration
There is no registration fee. The deadline for registration is July 4th, 2025.Please fill out “FourC Challenge 25-hour Design Charrette Contest Online Registration Form” by clicking “Read More” at the bottom. After reviewing materials, the organizer will notify participants by phone or email along with a guide to the contest and other relevant information.
Online Registration Form
https://www.wjx.cn/vm/YDtib9J.aspx#
Contact
E-mail : sdesign@sjtu.edu.cn
Contact : Ms. Bai
86400 seconds, 1440 minutes, or 24 hours can be an ordinary day or a day filled with creativity and passion. This design challenge aims to stimulate participants' imagination and creativity within the limited time frame. In just 24 hours, it brings together young individuals from different nationalities and backgrounds to explore and solve social problems from different perspectives. The goal is to propose innovative, scientific, forward-thinking, and practical design solutions.
The FourC Challenge is not just a simple competition but also a platform for communication and deeper understanding with the world. Through 24 hours of mutual learning and communication, we hope that students can meet and get to know the world, collaborate, exchange ideas with others from different countries, and positively influence people's lifestyles and shape a better future through the power of design.
