Double Win at Falling Walls Lab Switzerland
The project CHORNOZEM from the subject area Interaction Design has received both the Jury Award and the Audience Award at Falling Walls Lab Switzerland.
This past Monday, the project CHORNOZEM by MA Interaction Design students Kirill Kohl, Olivia Menezes und Yaroslava Shylyk was awarded with two prizes at the Falling Walls Lab Switzerland. Yaroslava Shylyk succeeded at the pitch event, competing with nine other projects from Swiss universities, and received both the Jury Award and the Audience Award. The project will now be presented in November at the international Falling Walls Science Summit in Berlin.
Congratulations to the project team and to all involved!
More information about the project:
CHORNOZEM was developed as part of the module “Ecological Interactions / Biodesign Challenge” and deals with the ecocide perpetrated in the war in Ukraine and in other conflict zones. The project proposes a strategy for forensic examination and restoration of contaminated agricultural soil in order to enable farmers to evaluate the safety of their fields in an independent and cost-efficient way.
In June, the project already won the first prize at the Biodesign Challenge Summit 2025 in New York.
