1) Algae Landscape Design

How will algae production be designed into future landscapes, buildings and communities? What will they look like and how will they work?

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2) Algae Production Systems

What are the best designs, engineering and systems to work effectively and economically on a community scale or distributed model?

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3) Algae Food Development


What will be the next algae foods and recipes and future uses of algae as food and feed ingredients that will transform our health?

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Food Development

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Algae Competition Entries

UPDATE: Participants represent projects in 40 countries: Australia, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Brunei, Cambodia, Canada, Chad, China, Colombia, Congo, Croatia, Cyprus, Czech Republic, Ecuador, France, Germany, Haiti, Hong Kong, Iceland, India, Indonesia, Italy, Kenya, Kosovo, Malaysia, Myanmar, New Zealand, Netherlands, Norway, Singapore, South Korea, Spain, Sweden, Switzerland, Taiwan, Thailand, Togo, United Arab Emirates, United Kingdom, United States, Zimbabwe.


Exhibits of submitted entries
1) Algae Landscape and Architecture Design
2) Algae Production Systems
3) Algae Food Development and Recipes


Jury Process Underway
Algae Competition has assembled 55 distinguished jurors from diverse backgrounds to evaluate entries in the three tracks of the competition: landscape designs, production systems and food development. Juror evaluations are still coming in. We hope to announce finalists by February 22, 2012.


Objectives: Create an open source collaboratory that expands and shares a vision for algae in our future with design ideas for algae production landscapes, sustainable algae production systems for food, medicines, feed, energy, nutrients, water remediation, carbon capture, and superb new algae foods.

The Algae Competition is open to everyone, anywhere in the world: algae enthusiasts, architects, builders, designers, scientists, entrepreneurs, growers, food developers, cooks, students and teams.

Registration opened January 11, officially closed October 22, 2011.
Submission opened February 11, officially closed October 22, 2011.

Entries will be judged by distinguished panels of international jurors. Finalists will be announced February 22, 2012. As an open source competition, entries will be showcased online. $10,000 in cash prizes will be awarded to winners. Finalists will receive international media recognition and will be included in books, publications and exhibitions to be held around the world in 2012.