01
Identify
Start with the street, not the solution.
Students identified a real sustainability problem in their locality and documented it with photographic evidence.
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See the challenge. Shape the change.
SUSTAINX
From Street to Smart City
20 August 2026Multimedia Hall, Knowledge CenterUN SDG 11
What SustainX became
One campus. Fourteen teams. Local problems first.
Small local changes can redraw the way a city works.
SustainX brought students together to identify real sustainability challenges, explore practical ideas and reimagine how everyday interventions can contribute to safer, more inclusive, resilient and sustainable communities.
Before 20.08.26
Teaser · Registration · Challenge brief
How SustainX was introduced.
The teaser, registration call and challenge explainer that led into the event.
Inside SustainX / 20.08.26
The event,
not the poster.
A field archive from the room: presentations, reactions and the moments between them. Select any frame to open it.
The journey / three moves
Identify. Innovate. Present.
3 phases / 1 challenge
02
Innovate
Turn observations into something buildable.
Shortlisted teams moved through a campus bootcamp, technical mentorship and structured solution development.
03
Present
Put the idea in front of people who can challenge it.
Teams pitched their proposed solutions to an IEEE and faculty panel, where the ideas were formally evaluated.
Challenge area / SDG 11
The city was the brief.
“What can we change here, with what we already know, have and can realistically build?”
Urban water & pollution01
Accessible menstrual care02
Climate-resilient housing03
Food waste04
Urban heat05
Roadside waste06
Safer mobility07
Air quality08
Energy visibility09
Flooding & drainage10
Smart waste systems11
Human-wildlife conflict12
The podium
Three ideas rose to the top.
Selected for the strength of the idea and the way it was developed and presented through SustainX.
01
Team
HYDRO
Integrated oil–solid waste management
A low-cost canal and coastal-water treatment concept combining floating-debris segregation with reusable hair-based oil sorption.
02
Team
ZERO POINT2
Accessible sustainable menstrual care
A practical campus-focused response to affordability and access barriers around sustainable menstrual products.
03
Team
UNEMPLOYED
Vernacular intelligence for resilient communities
A climate-resilience platform translating Kerala’s traditional architectural knowledge and local hazard data into practical housing recommendations.
14 teams
Fourteen ways of seeing the city differently.
Every team entered the same SDG 11 challenge from a different lived problem. The archive below records the participating team names without publishing private participant information.
01HYDRO
02ZERO POINT2
03UNEMPLOYED
04URBANOVA
05WATTWISE
06COMMUTEMATE
07BEYOND THE BIN
08TEAM FOSS
09TITAN
10VOIE SÛRE
11X-FACTOR
12TEAM WASTED
13TEAM Z
14NIK
How ideas were evaluated
The pitch was only part of the score.
The documented judging framework put the largest share of the score on sustainability and community impact.
Sustainability & community impact
30
Innovation
20
Technical feasibility
20
Cost effectiveness
15
Presentation clarity
15
100 points total
Spot it. Solve it. Sustain it.
SEE THE
CHALLENGE.
SHAPE THE
CHANGE.
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