{"id":3613,"date":"2020-12-22T09:47:26","date_gmt":"2020-12-22T09:47:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news.alfaisal.edu\/?p=3613"},"modified":"2020-12-22T09:47:26","modified_gmt":"2020-12-22T09:47:26","slug":"dimensions-alfaisals-accelerator-concludes-the-hillaha-challenge-with-the-quality-of-life-program","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news.alfaisal.edu\/en\/dimensions-alfaisals-accelerator-concludes-the-hillaha-challenge-with-the-quality-of-life-program\/","title":{"rendered":"Dimensions, Alfaisal\u2019s Accelerator, Concludes the Hillaha! 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Specifically, this vision-realization program works to improve individuals\u2019 lifestyles by developing an ecosystem to support and create new options that boost citizens\u2019 and residents\u2019 participation in cultural, environmental, and sports activities.<\/p>\n<p>For the challenge, and with three Saudi cities within the top 100 most liveable cities in the world by 2030, the visual pollution (field of the urbanism) is considered one of the most challenges facing the quality of life in the Kingdom, and visual pollution has been defined as the negative impact object can have on the appearance of an area such as the cleanliness of public facilities, graffiti or wall markings unorganized street dealers and other influencing elements.<\/p>\n<p>At the core of the challenge was the question: \u201cHow can we make our cities visually attractive for tourists, residents and citizens, and limit visual pollution disturbances such as the cleanliness of public facilities, graffiti or wall markings? How to raise people s awareness about urban scene aesthetics?\u201d.<\/p>\n<p>The challenge received telling participation, and with a wide array of innovative responses touching on many aspects of the challenge, especially with regards to sustainable and commercially viable ideas.<\/p>\n<p>The Three winners are:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>1st place Sara Aldossari<\/li>\n<li>2nd place\u00a0Faisal Alghosen<\/li>\n<li>3rd place Maryam Aharkey<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-3615\" src=\"https:\/\/news.alfaisal.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/12\/002-1.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1093\" height=\"364\" \/><\/p>\n<p>The challenge was judged by the Director of Strategic Partnerships at Quality of Life Program Mr. Almohanad Alzooaabe, Chief Delivery Officer at Quality of Life Program Mr. Khalid Albaker, the Director of Creativity and Innovation Alaa Al Suliman and form Alfaisal University program by Dr. Abd-Elhamid M. Taha Assistant Professor in Electrical Engineering, Ms. Nouf Alammar the Students Business Accelerator Supervisor, and Mr. Mohammed Alohli, Dimensions experienced consultant who conducted several mentoring programs and is the founder of well-known brands.<\/p>\n<p>Alfaisal University Accelerator \u201cDimensions\u201d Transfer the idea into investment opportunity product, service, company Empower Entrepreneurs with experience, tools, and community to succeed in their businesses, by transforming early innovations into highly valued organizations and creating a vibrant innovation and technology ecosystem to deliver social and economic benefits.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>For 24 hours during November 20 and 21, Alfaisal University students worked on ideas and solutions addressing visual pollution in&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10,"featured_media":3614,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[128,134,19],"tags":[],"college-department":[],"class_list":["post-3613","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-events","category-research","category-students"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v28.7 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Dimensions, Alfaisal\u2019s Accelerator, Concludes the Hillaha! 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