An intelligent tap water filtration system to promote its consumption and reduce plastic waste, or a platform that connects food donors with social entities, are some of the solutions presented in the 2025 edition of the CBI4AI program
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Living Better in Cities Through Design and AI
Date
05 November 2025
From an intelligent tap water filtration system that encourages consumption and reduces plastic waste, to a platform connecting food donors with social organizations, or even a digital health identification system to ensure care for patients with chronic diseases in areas lacking digital medical records.
These are some of the proposals designed by six multidisciplinary teams made up of students from the Master in Design for Interaction and Extended Realities of IED Barcelona, UPC and Esade who participated in the 2025 edition of the Challenge Based Innovation for Artificial Intelligence (CBI4AI) program.
This academic project focuses on advanced artificial intelligence technologies, encouraging innovation through design, science, engineering, and business, while addressing the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) and emphasizing sustainability, ethics, and user-centered design.
This year’s challenge was: to orchestrate infrastructure networks powered by graph neural networks (GNNs) to improve access to water, reuse perishable food supplies, and facilitate healthcare assistance (pharmaceutical distribution, emergency care) in urban environments.
Over 10 weeks, six multidisciplinary teams—supported by coaches and tutors—developed their solutions following a two-day ideation process at CERN IdeaSquare and multiple consultations with research center experts. The final presentations, including prototypes and business models, took place in June 2025 at IED Barcelona.
Click on each image to see the description of the projects.
“Smart Tap”
“Correplat”
“N·BEAT”
“aerovent”
“WA_SIM”
“GNN”
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