The Rethinking the Future (RTF) is pleased to announce the winners of the May 2020 Urban Sketching Competition, given to sketches and artworks showcasing excellence and innovation for theme ‘Scenario of Urban Spaces – Before and After COVID-19’. This month,350+entries were registered from various countries, spanning DIgital Art, Pen & Ink, Water Colors, and Pencil categories.

First Award | Gaurav Patel

Category:Digital Art
Profession:Student
City:Lucknow
Caption:Where do we go

Second Award | Srilekha Kintada

Category:Digital Art
Profession:Student
City:Visakhapatnam
Caption: The theme of the sketch is to portray the Virus as an Urban Glitch. Through holographic projections and virtual direction markers, the urbanscape could be molded according to the need of the hour. Controlling traffic and pedestrian flow is easier than ever. A headset that helps identify people’s proximity radius and if they contacted with the virus.

Third Award | Meenakshi E

Category:Digital Art
Profession:Student
City:Mysuru
Caption:Muffled Market – the silent chaos

Honorable Mention | Anuja Jadhav

Category:Digital Art
Profession:Student
City:Nashik
Caption: My digital art has 3 phases of urban lifestyle. Before during and after Covid-19 pandemic •first scenerio explains busy nonstop and selfish lifestyle of human race. Which brought up over crowding pollution and a threat to the ecosystem •then during the pandemic police, doctors,cleanup workers etc are serving for the nation and people are staying and working from the home to fight Covid-19 •A doctor holding a predicted photograph in third scene. Which states after these efforts of doctors, police , government and other people we will win the fight against the pandemic and we’ll get healed ecosystem in this process, clearer sky,greener planet , joyfull organisms. People will start using private and non polluting transport which will bring a life to the environment.

Honorable Mention | Fiki Kurniawan

Category:Digital Art
Profession:Architect
City:Batusangkar, Indonesia
Caption:物理距离公共交通

Honorable Mention | Sampada Netke

Category:Digital Art
Profession:Architect
City:Pune
Caption:Urban Signs

First Award | Shubhajit Bagchi

Category:Pen & Ink
Profession:Architect
City:Kolkata
Caption:Poila Baisak during Lockdown

Second Award | Chester Atienza

Category:Pen & Ink
Profession:Architect
City:Santa Rosa, Philippines
Caption:QUIAPO CHURCH: Life Before the Virus | Future Restructuring After A Pandemic

Third Award | Nandu C V

Category:Pen & Ink
Profession:Architect
City:Kannur
Caption:DHARAVI -The transformation of Cohesion

Honorable Mention | Manasi Bhuskute

Category:Pen & Ink
Profession:Student
City:Pune
Caption: The sketch shows how the restaurant was bustling and ever crowded, before the pandemic struck and how the restaurant is now, dead, after the pandemic struck

Honorable Mention | Keerthana Aravind

Category:Pen & Ink
Profession:Student
City:Kannur
Caption:An architect’s room at 3 am during the pandemic.

鼓励奖|都Khele

Category:Pen & Ink
Profession:Architect
City:Ahmednagar
Caption:Daily Threshold_Mumbai

Honorable Mention | Deepak Udayakumar

Category:Pen & Ink
Profession:Architect
City:Chennai
Caption:Urban Terraces

First Award | Sujit Jadhav

Category:Water Colors
Profession:Architect
City:Mumbai
Caption:Inside Out – For a better tomorrow.

Second Award | Srishti Sarkar

Category:Water Colors
Profession:Student
City:Pune
Caption: Pre-pandemic Airports | Post-pandemic Airports (Self check-in hygiene) | Post-pandemic Airports (Thermal check and Social Distancing)

Third Award | Priyanka Adhikari

Category:Water Colors
Profession:Architect
City:Chennai
Caption:The Necessary Pause – Life Before and After Covid

Honorable Mention | Jayashree L

Category:Water Colors
Profession:Student
City:Chennai
Caption:Do we have enough terrace?

Honorable Mention | Devam Golakiya

Category:Water Colors
Profession:Student
City:Surat
Caption:Covd19 before and after situation

First Award | Pulkit Gupta

Category:Pencil
Profession:Architect
City:Navi Mumbai
Caption:Fork in the road

Second Award | Kritika Garg

Category:Pencil
Profession:Student
City:Ghaziabad
Caption:Pre and Post COVID Responsive Urban Spaces.