FourC Challenge代表创造（Create）、联结（Connect）、相通（Communicate）、合作（Collaborate）。FourC Challenge 24小时设计挑战赛旨在通过活动倡导学生关注人类社会发展趋势，在实践中创新思路，寻找解决问题的最优设计，同时要有勇气去打破和颠覆，打造具有社会和产业价值的作品，将学科理论和实践相结合，共同服务于可持续、健康、美好的人居环境营造。

The FourC Challenge stands for Create, Connect, Communicate, and Collaborate. It advocates students pay attention to the developmental trends of human society, create innovative ideas in practice, and pursue optimal designs for solving real life problems. At the same time, they must show the courage to disrupt and subvert in order to create work with social and industrial value. By combining theory and practice, they can lay the groundwork for a sustainable, healthy, and beautiful living environment.

86400秒=1440分钟=24小时，可以是平凡的一天，也可以是充满创意及激情的一天。本设计挑战赛旨在有限时间里激发参赛者的想象力与创造力，在有限的24小时内，凝聚不同国籍及背景的青年，以不同的视角共同探索和解决社会问题，并提出具有创新性、科学性、前瞻性、实践性的设计方案。

86,400 seconds, 1,440 minutes, 24 hours, can be an ordinary day or a day full of creativity and passion. Shanghai Jiao Tong School of Design will link up with well-known universities through the format of this online design contest. Working with teammates of different nationalities and backgrounds, during this 24-hour period each team will bring a unique perspective, and aim to explore and solve social problems, as well as propose innovative, forward-looking and practical design solutions that rest on a solid scientific footing.

FourC Challenge并不仅仅是一个单纯的比赛，更是一个与世界沟通，加深认知理解的平台。在这相互学习、相互沟通的24小时，我们希望学生们能够通过与世界相遇相知，与各国学子合作交流，通过设计的力量，推动世界更具韧性的复苏。

FourC Challenge is not merely a competition, but also a global platform of design to communicate and deepen cross-cultural understanding. In this 24 hours of mutual learning, we hope that students can meet new friends and widen their vision, collaborate with each other, and promote a more resilient recovery spirit to the world through the power of design.

江南暮春，草长莺飞。虽然不能相聚于物理空间，但我们可以在线上集结，共同创造美好回忆。一言为定，五月“云端”相聚。

It’s spring time in this part of the world. Flowers are blooming regardless of people’s doing. Although we are unable to meet and greet each other in person, we believe we will be able to do something meaningful online and leave each other with long-lasting memories. We look forward to “meeting” you in May.

二、2021年竞赛主题  

因为新冠疫情的影响，全世界所有人都经历了特殊且艰难的2020年。新冠疫情对人类社会造成的重创引发我们深刻思考，在“后疫情时代”的特殊背景下，人类生活发生了许多的变化的同时也充满了挑战。因此，我们倡议海内外高校能联合起来，用线上的方式联动，用设计的力量守护人类的“健康”与社会的“复苏”。

Since the outbreak in 2020, at this extra-ordinary time of the COVID-19 pandemic, we have been facing unprecedented challenges. While we are stepping into the post-epidemic era, our lives have undergone tremendous change. It is against this background that we propose schools and universities from around the world join hands with design concepts to promote rehabilitation and enhance resilience of human society.

设计除了为物质生活创造更多丰富的享受之外，还应承载更多时代赋予的使命：治愈创伤、唤起希望、重建人际交往、重塑人与环境之间的和谐关系和健康发展等。希望号召参赛者秉承“以人为本”的理念和专业探索，通过竞赛所呈现的设计理念、设计手段和设计成果，为人们抚平伤痕，怀抱共情和尊重，在后疫情时代以新的生活方式积极地面对挑战，利用设计的创新力量，推动人类社会的康复性再生和韧性发展。

Design—in addition to enriching our lives—should do more at times of uncertainty, such as healing wounds, enshrining hopes, rebuilding interpersonal communications, reshaping harmonious relationships between people and the environment, and improving public health. It is our hope that participants will uphold the "people-centred" concept and professionalism. Through ideas and design products, the aim of this year’s contest is to find designed ways to heal people's mind, embrace empathy and respect, and of more importance revive peoples’ health and spirit in the post-epidemic era. We firmly believe that the power of design can help promote the rehabilitation and enhance resilience of human society.

由此，今年的竞赛主题为“ReVive康复·再生”，旨在通过设计，重塑人与环境之间的和谐关系和健康发展。

The theme for this year is “ReVive” - to enhance the wellbeing of humankind and the rehabilitation of a post-pandemic society.

三、2021年竞赛方案