Global Goals Jam Tokyo 2021
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Do you have a passion for solving social challenges to improve lives? Do you want to leverage your skills and ideas in a diverse and high-energy setting to identify and attack issues in sustainability and inequality?

Join us for the fifth edition of the Global Goals Jam in Tokyo, Japan, where local innovators, entrepreneurs, and creatives will join teams in over 200 cities around the world in designing actionable interventions toward achieving the Global Goals.

The Global Goals Jam is a two day designathon where creative teams work together on local challenges related to the Sustainable Development Goals. Using a tailored design thinking toolkit (the “Jamkit”), we will create interventions aimed at short term targets in support of the long term goals.

Tokyo is a modern metropolis that has been repeatedly transformed through a series of drastic yet remarkable historical moments, most of which have occurred in the length of a single lifetime. The 1923 Great Kantō Earthquake destroyed approximately 45% of early modern Tokyo; another urban reset came after more than half of Tokyo was diminished by the firebombing of American B-29 bombers in 1945.

Tokyo’s urban regenerative prowess was presented to the world’s stage only two decades later, in preparation for the 1964 Tokyo Olympic and Paralympic Games. Tokyo went from being a city with virtually zero old buildings or mobility options to boasting several world-class gymnasiums as well as a billion dollar 130-mile-per-hour bullet train that cut the time from Tokyo to Osaka in half!

The preparations for the Tokyo 2020 Olympic and Paralympic Games has once again shined light on Tokyo’s ability to transform in response to a global sporting event. A number of design interventions have been deployed to make the 2020 Tokyo Olympic and Paralympic Games move towards a carbon zero event. But are cardboard beds for athletes and Olympics medals made of recycled cell phones enough?

Can Tokyo, the largest city in the world, stand up to the challenge of becoming a regenerative city?

In a regenerative city, all stakeholders, including the people in the city as well as non-human living creatures, mutually benefit from a restorative relationship with the natural systems around it.

A regenerative city goes beyond the goal of an “eco-friendly” city. In a regenerative city, interventions are implemented which actively improve the environment, not just maintain it, while generating the natural resources on which the city dwellers depend on.

• How might we create a more healthy and sustainable relationship towards nature in the city?
• How do we close the loops of our urban systems and communities?
• How might we design our cities as ecological systems, so that they not only become sustainable but actively contribute to a thriving planet?

Every year, Global Goals Jam Tokyo selects three areas from the SDGs which are related to the theme as regional issues and tackles them. These are the three focus SDGs at this year’s GGJ Tokyo:

Examples of a visual prototype include…

1. A wireframe, mockup, or other clickable prototype.
2. A visual 3D model or rendering.
3. Video prototyping as a commercial or advertisement for the product or service.
4. A Storyboard, a sequence of drawings to represent how the service/product works.
5. A social media campaign, show the message and function of your prototype through a Facebook, Instagram Tiktok or other social media campaign
6. An art installation mockup

Here are some examples of past GGJ prototypes:

For more GGJ Past Examples, please see last year’s Global Goals Jam Sprint #4 Share it! AWRD page ?
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