Sustainability Challenge 2024 VELUX x Roskilde Festival
In collaboration with Roskilde Festival and IDA, the VELUX Group invites students to create proposals for how to make Roskilde Festival's lounge areas greener and more circular – in other words, rethinking how to chill at Denmark's Roskilde Festival. This year the theme of the competition is: The Window Edition!
Transforming spaces with innovative designs
For the third consecutive year, the hands-on case competition Sustainability Challenge is taking place at Roskilde Festival – the greatest setting for innovation and circularity. VELUX x Roskilde Festival invites students with an innovative and sustainable mindset to design, present and build elements for festival a lounge area.
Competition description: Rethink the way we “chill” at Roskilde Festival – The Window Edition
The challenge this year will be to design elements for a lounge area, so the guests at Roskilde Festival can chill in a more sustainable way in between concerts. This year, the students will build mainly using scrap wood from VELUX window production within the scope of:
- Functional installation art
- Weather protection
- Group activity elements or
- Meeting (point) elements
Online meetings and presentations days
The challenge begins with two online meetings where students were given information about the competition, timelines and event details. The first physical meetings take place in Copenhagen and Aarhus, where students present their ideas with digital presentations and small project models. Before presenting to the jury the groups receive feedback from VELUX mentors and make final adjustments to their projects and presentations if needed.
Aarhus Pitch Day, April 28th 2024
Copenhagen Pitch Day, May 5th 2024
The Build-up Days at Roskilde Festival
More than 50 groups and 160 students from all over Denmark pitched their innovative and sustainable ideas during the Presentation Days. The jury selected 12 groups to move on in the competition and execute their ideas with life-sized models that will be built during the Build-up Days at Roskilde Festival taking place July 1-2, 2024.
Participating Groups
Click on the posters below to learn more about the selected projects.
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JURY MEMBERS
The jury will be composed of professionals from the design and architecture industries who evaluate the projects based on their functionality, design and potential.
STUDENT MENTORS
On Presentation Days, the Sustainability Challenge groups consulted with VELUX Group mentors, gaining valuable insights and advice.
Visit to Campus Østbirk, June 2024
Participants from the 12 finalist groups were invited to join a site visit to our facilities in Østbirk to see the Innovation House and Østbirk Nature Park. It was a great opportunity for them to network with one another and meet VELUX employees, while learning about the production and development of VELUX projects.
Sustainability Challenge Finale
The Sustainability Challenge 2024 Finale took place Wednesday, July 3rd. The Jury selected the project ‘FRAME’ as the winning design. The project used nine VELUX window frames and plexiglass to create an installation at Roskilde Festival that focuses on community and interaction by providing spaces to sit, relax, and share festival experiences by writing on the plexiglass panels. The project also emphasizes sustainability, as the group highlights that their solution can be easily packed and reused after the festival.
The four winners are Maria Lykke, Emilie Funderud, Anders Nielsen, and Caroline Brarup Schäfer, all study Furniture Design at VIA Design & Business in Herning. The group received DKK 10,000, and their solution will be exhibited and used for the rest of the festival near the Orange Stage. Selected projects will also have the opportunity to collaborate with the Circular Laboratory at Roskilde Festival to further develop their ideas.
Listen to “Bæredygtighed på Roskilde Festival” on DR P1 Orientering
Listen to "Festival, fællesskab og fremtidens løsninger" by IDA Lyd
