TED Prize 2012: City 2.0 and a Plastic Bottle Park in Uganda
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In March of this year, the annual TED Prize was awarded to City 2.0. The $100,000 prize has historically been awarded to an individual (last year to artist JR), but with City 2.0, the award went to a platform “where citizens, leaders and corporations can connect to identify and support ideas for the future of their cities.” City 2.0 planned to distribute ten $10,000 prizes to crowd-sourced programs impacting communities globally.
City 2.0 Winner Ruganzu Bruno Tusingware at TED Summit Qatar, 2012/
Now that it’s been a few months, City 2.0 is in full-swing, having awarded five of the $10,000 grants since March to recipients “working at the grassroots to make cities more sustainable, equitable, and beautiful” have received grants. Awards are being given in areas of key issues affecting cities: Education, Housing, Art, Play, Health, Safety, Transportation, Food, and Public Space. Ugandan artist Ruganzu Bruno Tusingware was awarded the most recent prize for “Play” in July, with his project “Recycled Amusement.”
Tusingware’s proposal involves a triple whammy of community benefits—recycling trash into a park for kids; creating a safe and much-needed refuge of play for Ugandan children; and building a loan program for women eco-artists in Uganda to develop their business ideas.
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