Vision of water wins sustainability competition

Links: - Green UCL - Blue UCL event information - UCL Environment Institute - UCL Estates and Facilities - UCL Union and the environment - HoldUP Architecture An installation exploring how much water it requires to produce a single cup of coffee has won a UCL competition encouraging staff and students to think about sustainability. Lola Pedro's vision, which involves the installation of a network of large blue pipes behind the pillars of the portico in the university's quadrangle, will go on display for three weeks from Friday 8 October. The UCL Management Science and Innovation student's winning entry ' The Blue Gold Project - beat stiff competition from a range of imaginative designs from staff and students across the university. The Green UCL Sustainability Competition sought to energise the practice of sustainability at the university in an engaging, thought-provoking and dramatic way. Entrants were asked to use environmentally friendly materials and construction methods to create a spectacular focal point, visible from Gower Street, that encouraged public engagement and demonstrated sustainability in 'how it is made, used, can be re-used, re-purposed or disposed of when it is taken down'. Entrants submitted their work up to the end of May, and in early June a panel chaired by Professor Michael Worton (Vice Provost Academic & International) selected The Blue Gold Project as the winner. In this video Lola discusses her collaboration with HoldUP architecture and the ideas behind her installation, and the original submissions for her winning entry can be downloaded as PDFs ( sheet one , sheet two and sheet three ).