AIC Awards: AIC 2024 Student Paper Awards

Started in 2018, the biennial AIC Student Paper Awards aims to encourage students to present their work at the AIC meetings in which students will be benefited from the interaction with the international colour community.

On Sep 19, 2024, Vien Cheung – Editor of the Journal of International Colour Association (JAIC) – presented the Student Paper Awards at the Closing Ceremony of the AIC 2024 Midterm Meeting: Color Design, Communication and Marketing, held at ESPM, São Paulo.

Out of the total entries of 21 student papers, the jury panel with seven members of the AIC Executive Committee confirmed the six finalist student papers as below:

First Prize

Urban polychromy: An experimental methodology tested in Belo Horizonte, Minas Gerais, Brazil
Bianca Monteiro Tavares Fonseca - Faculty of Architecture and Urbanism, University of São Paulo, Brazil

 Second Prize

Color in the city: an analysis of chromatic interventions in urban space paving
Lauren Nicole Gonçalves Duarte and Natalia Naoumova - Architecture and Urbanism Department, Federal University of Pelotas, Brazil

 Third Prize

Dorothy Draper: a Brazilian chromatic palette - case study of the Quitandinha hotel
Josivan Pereira da Silva and Leonardo Pestana Collalto Toni - Faculty of Architecture and Urbanism, University of São Paulo, Brazil

 Honourable mention

The effect of reading background colour on human cognitive performance based on multi-modal data analysis - A study of gender differences
Lina Xu, Dehan Jia, Zhongyue Zhang, Leyan Huang, Guobin Xia and Luwen Yu - The Hong Kong University of Science and Technology (Guang Zhou), Guang Zhou, China

Quantifying emotions evoked by artworks using psychophysical methods: Relationships between emotions and colorimetric structure of abstract paintings
Carlo Martins Gaddi and Marcelo Fernandes da Costa - Psychology Institute, University of São Paulo, Brazil

The Communication of Colors in Interior Design: an a  nalysis of the covers of The World of Interiors magazine from the 1990s and 2000s
Rebecka Pires - Faculty of Architecture, University of Lisbon, Portugal