Competitions

To help us encourage dialogue and record what the public thinks of design, we need a ‘Vox Populi’ Kiosk. A structure where we can record the thoughts, reactions, suggestions, criticism and delight of the general public about their ... more

To help us encourage dialogue and record what the public thinks of design, we need a ‘Vox Populi’ Kiosk. A structure where we can record the thoughts, reactions, suggestions, criticism and delight of the general public about their built environment.We’re inviting submissions for this structure in a design competition.Competitors are asked to submit proposals for a two person kiosk should be portable by car and provide some degree of visual and acoustic separation from the immediate environment, allowing members of the public to record their thoughts. It will be used throughout Scotland, on the islands, in the cities and small towns, so it needs to be robust, replicable and quickly constructed.The two person kiosk should be portable by car and provide a some degree of visual and acoustic separation from the immediate environment, allowing members of the public to record their thoughts. It will be used throughout Scotland, on the islands, in the cities and small towns, so it needs to robust, replicable and quickly constructed.Submissions do not need to detail the electrical power for the kiosk, we would however like you to help us build the kiosk at the entrance to the James Morrison Street Festival on Saturday 18th September as part of Glasgow’s Doors Open Programme 2010.
The James Morrison Street festival is co-arranged with a variety of local practices, we have included a plan showing the various parties involved and where the kiosk will be prominently located at the trance to the street.The kiosk must be visually striking yet compact, no more the 3m3 & fully demountable, preferably modular using simple strong forms.The kiosk should be constructed using 1675x1485mm single 4mm corrugated card sheets or subdivisions of that size.To achieve an affordable design that can be easily replicated, submissions are restricted to no more than 30no. full size sheets.The main structure should require no glue in it’s construction but smaller sub-components can be pre-glued / laminated or bonded if necessary, using appropriately ecological adhesive solutions. The corrugated card can be colored if if this enhances it’s visibility.The structure should provide a means of supporting a laptop for recording the ‘talking heads’ of people who wish to comment.A simple opening for a door and no window are required.Eligibility
The competition is open to anyone & everyone, individuals or groups.Submission
A single A3 PDF should be sent to the following email address: submissions@skirmishes.orgEach A3 should contain an image of what the completed structure will look like, together with instruction diagrams showing construction steps.Contact details of the Group / Individual, including address and email address should submitted on an A4 PDF with the design submission but no identifying marks should be on the main submission sheet. Entries will be judged anonymously by a small panel of trustee’s.Prize
The winning entry will receive £250 and the opportunity to contribute to building something that we will be used throughout Scotland over the next twelve months with full credit given to the successful designer on the skirmishes website and on the design itself.All entries to the competition will be featured on the skirmishes website and will receive skirmishes membership which includes regular newsletter, entry to forthcoming events & lectures and the ability to take part in forthcoming debates.Programme    * Competition Launch 23rd August 2010
    * Submission Deadline 12.00 noon on 10th September 2010
    * Winner Announced on 13th September 2010
    * Kiosk Built at the James Morrison Street Festival on 18th September 2010Partners
SUST / A+DS
James Morrison Street Residents Group
James Morrison Street Festival collapse

Submission information for project consideration
Deadline: rolling
Note: the committee selects projects quarterly for presentation in New York Designs. Please submit material by March 1, June 1, September 1, and December 1 for considerat... more

Submission information for project consideration
Deadline: rolling
Note: the committee selects projects quarterly for presentation in New York Designs. Please submit material by March 1, June 1, September 1, and December 1 for consideration in the following quarter.2010 New York Designs Committee
Andrew Berman, Stella Betts, Phu Hoang, Joe MacDonald, Anne Rieselbach, Linnaea Tillett, Shawn Watts, Claire Weisz, Barbara Wilks, and Stephen YablonCall for Submissions
Architects, landscape architects, engineers, and other designers are invited to submit projects to the Architectural League’s New York Designs series. Projects of all types at any scale, either built (completed within one year of submission) or under construction in New York City, are welcome. Quality is the sole criterion for selection.New York Designs recognizes accomplished built work in New York City. If your project is selected, League staff will work with you to develop an appropriate presentation, most often taking the format of an on-site tour or brief lecture. We invite designers to include project collaborators, such as consultants, contractors, engineers, clients, and others in the project presentation. Submission assumes the accessibility of the space by a group of 20-30 people and availability of the designer to take part in a New York-based program. Travel monies will not be provided.Submission deadlines
New York Designs is an ongoing project recognition series. You may submit a project at any time.Submission requirements
Submissions are digital. Please submit a PDF of no more than four pages that includes project images, a written statement not to exceed 250 words, and a brief project description and timeline.Submissions should be sent to Nick Anderson at anderson@archleague.org. For more information, call 212.753.1722 x13.League programs are made possible, in part, by public funds from the National Endowment for the Arts and the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act, the New York State Council on the Arts, a State Agency, and the New York City Department of Cultural Affairs, in partnership with the City Council. collapse

CALL FOR ABSTRACTS“In the paradigm, intelligibility does not precede the phenomenon; it stands, so to speak "beside" it (para). According to Aristotle's definition, the paradigmatic gesture moves not from the particular to the whole ... more

CALL FOR ABSTRACTS“In the paradigm, intelligibility does not precede the phenomenon; it stands, so to speak "beside" it (para). According to Aristotle's definition, the paradigmatic gesture moves not from the particular to the whole to the particular but from the singular to the singular.”
-Giorgio Agamben, The Signature of All Things: On Method, p. 27-28.“Models are tools for the understanding of phenomena, they are made by those who seek understanding, they may be improved upon and replaced by better models. This statement is characteristic of the modern age…For moderns, ‘knowledge’ is in part the result of manipulations of models.”
-Vilém Flusser Writings. p. 75When virtue refers to persons, it denotes those possessing moral excellence or superiority; the virtue of an object denotes its authority, worth or efficacy, occasionally its capacity for miracles. Virtual environments, currently the governing mode in which design operates, are models created by our vast computational ability (empirical knowledge) and theory (speculative knowledge) that refer to prior abstractions of the "real." In this detachment from the given world, the model further creates its own relations and conditions, creating possibilities outside of the given conditions that created it in the first place.What are the consequences of an immersion into an immaterial world where one is freed from the given conditions we have long known? How does the virtual begin to produce the "real"? How are ethics created? Is this type of modelmaking fundamentally distinct from what preceded it? What are its consequences?Although the virtual is neither person nor object, we must judge its virtues all the same. Does it have superior worth or efficacy? Is it an authority? Does it have a miraculous power, or is it simply "of easy virtue"? We must begin to think its ability to allow, not moral, but ethical decisions. We must ask what the virtual allows relative to making or whether we are not currently making "a virtue of necessity" and submitting to the created circumstances with good grace.Design + Computation: The Virtue of the Virtual is an interdisciplinary conference aimed at responding to the changing meaning of the model in technology and society. It has become more important to begin a conversation that allows voices from disparate disciplines to critically assess the challenges to culture and design that advanced computation in the digital arena present. We hope to cultivate an exchange involving practitioners and academics working in the disciplines of architecture, landscape architecture, city planning, design, history of science, philosophy, and computer science. We expect these disciplines will lend themselves to a dynamic discussion on the status of the model and virtual modelmaking, although we welcome submissions from medicine, media theory, law and political philosophy, mathematics, space research and any other discipline.The Cultural Mediations and Technology Program at McGill University's School of Architecture is currently accepting papers for this international conference to be held May 2011 at McGill University in Montreal, Quebec in association with The Facility for Architectural Research in Media and Mediation (F.A.R.M.M.). The conference organizers invite practitioners, teachers, researchers, and graduate students from any discipline to respond to this call for papers by submitting an abstract (500 words maximum) in English including title by September 1st, 2010.A limited number of travel stipends are available. Also, all conference papers will be considered for publication in the winter 2012 issue of Ai (Architecture and ideas, http://architectureandideas.com/ ) edited by Dr. Torben Berns, and Michael Jemtrud of the Conference Steering Committee. Respondents will be notified by September 15, 2010.Please submit abstracts as an email attachment as well as any questions to the following address: cmt.architecture@mcgill.ca. Full registration for the conference will be opened at a later date. We look forward to receiving your abstract and hope you will be able to join us in Montreal next May. Thank you for circulating this information.Steering Committee:    * · Torben Berns, McGill University School of Architecture
    * · Michael Jemtrud, McGill University School of Architecture
    * · Martin Bressani, McGill University School of Architecture
    * · John Zissovici, Cornell University School of Architecture
    * · Adrian Lewis, Cornell University, School of Operations Research and Industrial Engineering
Organizers:    * · Anya Domlesky, McGill University School of Architecture
    * · Philam Nguyen, McGill University School of Architecture
http://www.farmmresearch.com/cmtconference collapse

Venice Design Week 2010, taking place 8 - 17 October in association with the Architecture Biennale, is a series of events and exhibitions. One of these is the International Design Award open to designers, architects, and creative peopl... more

Venice Design Week 2010, taking place 8 - 17 October in association with the Architecture Biennale, is a series of events and exhibitions. One of these is the International Design Award open to designers, architects, and creative people of all ages. The initiative is sponsored by the City of Venice and companies that produce design objects.
It is supported by design professors of international schools, colleges and universities.
INTRODUCTION Human beings have always been "making things"
"Making things" is one of the strongest and oldest human impulses. It remerges in one’s free time and at moments of escape, as when, after a dinner with friends, we are surprised to be playing with the metal cage of a champagne bottle to produce bizarre anthropomorphic figures, improbable gadgets with no purpose or practical function. Or how we act on the beach, when our mind - even free of thinking about utilitarian goals - still commands the hand to "do something". Obedient, the hand digs, separates and selects the whitest stones, plaits and knots strands of dried seaweed.
It is a natural inclination to manipulate matter for our benefit, enjoyment, and aesthetic pleasure.
Then came technology, which offered tremendous possibilities for quantitative replication of ideas and objects, and, over time, created a rating system of classification as effective as it was incomplete: the number.
Our "system of objects" can be well organized on three levels:
piece: the artistic act
pieces: crafts
pieces: mass production
The result of classification is reflected in these two ideas:
•    all products that fit within the confines of these categories, although in many cases, the final culmination of solid research design, are viewed, however, as originating as hybrids, and therefore, at least within the Western logical-production framework, not entirely praiseworthy. These items are often greeted by insiders as original creative achievements typical of a Designer’s early phase, but it is difficult to remove the veneer of eccentricity that the general public attributes to it;
•    with increasing industrialization and mass production of objects, they lose connection with their creator, the warmth of "handmade," and fade in terms of history and identity.
•   
The visible effect is that objects are designed and manufactured not from a free analysis of the expressive material possibilities and its processing techniques - involving, for example, integrating the methods of arts, crafts and industry – but starting from technical references typical of mass production.
To date it appears that Technology is more important than a Human Being, and this kind of production process must take precedence over what the designer "has to say".
THEME
The International Design Award of Design Week is the first edition and in 2010 has the theme "MAKING THINGS" The aim of the competition is to inspire participants to create a set of objects (minimum three) used in daily life which respond to the following requirements:
- must demonstrate that they were designed using, within the set of objects, production techniques related to art, craft and industry (the set must contain a minimum of 3 items);
- must have a strong symbolic significance and promote an active-creative relationship with the end user.
It is possible to work on any set of tools or objects of daily use, in compliance with the objectives outlined in the paragraph purpose and evaluation criteria.
WHO CAN PARTICIPATE
The 2010 edition of the International Award of Design Week is an important opportunity for growth and comparison which Venice Design Week wishes to bring to the attention of students and professionals.
It is possible to participate for the international Design Week Award both individually and as members of a group: in both cases, all participants will be required to deliver their own registration form, and in the case of groups, to nominate a group leader.
FEES
Designer: 50 € (organization costs)
Students: Free (attach to the documentation a copy of certification of enrolment in the school / university)
Payment can be made via paypal or bank transfer to AD3 snc - reason: Participation in the Venice Design Week Award. IBAN IT40V0310402000000000820585
EVALUATION CRITERIA
At the same time as the definition of the theme, the jury members will adhere to the following criteria:
- adherence of the project presented to the theme "making things" with the presentation of a set of objects (minimum three)
- clear and comprehensible explanation of the project objectives.
Requirements of the proposed solutions:
- the social impact of the proposed solution:
- user experience: symbolic connotation, active-creative relationship with the end user.
Evaluation criteria:
- simultaneous use of technical systems related to art, craft and industry;
- innovation, aesthetics and ergonomics;
- design quality of products in the active-creative relationship with the user besides being exciting, flexible
- quality of processing and description, clarity of content.
PURPOSE
The purpose of this competition is to select and reward a set of objects (minimum three objects) simultaneously employing technical systems related to art, craft and industry.
DEADLINE
delivery of submitted items must be by 24 September 12 p.m.
www.designweek.it through the site by 12 p.m., September 10, 2010 - September 24 (Italian time).
The winners will be announced during the Design Week with a public ceremony staged during 8 - 17 October in Venice.
METHOD OF PRESENTATION OF PROJECTS
Those interested should submit their applications through the website www.designweek.it 10 September, 2010 – 24 September 2010, 12 a.m. Italian time.
Applicants can participate either individually or in groups. The choice of one precludes the possibility of participating in the alternative competition mode. It excludes the possibility of changing the mode of participation after having submitted the application, under penalty of disqualification.
ACCESSION PROCESS
Online registration. For online registration, it will be required to accept all terms and conditions of the competition. After completing the registration process, you will receive confirmation of registration.
Presentation of submission. Each participant (individual or group) may submit up to 3 prepared in horizontal format A3.
Each entry A3 should be stored in a single file in PDF format, maximum size 2.5 MB
The description of the project, in A4 PDF files and rich text to a file containing more than 800 characters (.doc / .rtf /.odt).
The presentation of the designer or design team in A4 PDF files RTF text file containing maximum 800 characters.
All work submitted will be checked by the administrative secretary to ensure that they are formally valid and do not contain contents that are contrary to public order and morality.
The selected presentations will be announced by October 17, 2010.
TERMS AND CONDITIONS OF PARTICIPATION
The projects submitted must meet the requirements of originality. The participants must ensure in writing that the Works submitted are original, personal and do not infringe the intellectual property rights of third parties. Moreover, if the Work have already been presented and disseminated or have already been patented or registered, this must be specified in the project description.
The intellectual property rights of the Works presented remain those of the respective authors who cede to the organization of the award only the right to disclosure and publication in any form and in any media.
The participants give their consent for the work to be publicly available and used in promotion of the the 2011 edition in advertising and public relations associated with the Design Week prize.
Participants agree to submit prints of the projects to the organization if required for a later exhibition.COMPOSITION AND WORK OF THE COMMISSION
The committee of international design award of Design Week is composed of professors from European universities and design schools and a representative of the Venice Design Week organization.
Jurors will view the projects the first week of October and will nominate the winners.
The awards will be announced during the Venice Design Week in October.
All participants are invited to the closing ceremony of Venice Design Week to be held 17 October 2010 in Venice.
AWARDS
FIRST PRIZE 3,000 euro
SECOND PRIZE 800 euros
THIRD PRIZE trip to Berlin
The jury reserves the right to award the first prize only to a project/projects satisfying the evaluation criteria. Moreover, it will not be assigned to any project if the jury believes, at its discretion, none of the entries meet the criteria. The jury reserves the right to assign each of the awards to two or more projects that are considered as meeting the criteria. The jury will award ex-aequo. Other awards or honorable mentions can be awarded.
PRIVACY
By completing the registration form online site, participants of the competition agree to the terms expressed in www.designweek.it under privacy.
More information can be found in the FAQ section or write to designweek@ad3.it collapse

The main purpose of the Festival is the promotion of the culture as a social cohesion vehicle through the creation of an open supporting network aimed at encouraging, helping and linking all the expressions and positive experiences whi... more

The main purpose of the Festival is the promotion of the culture as a social cohesion vehicle through the creation of an open supporting network aimed at encouraging, helping and linking all the expressions and positive experiences which can spread the values of pluralism and general well being in the cultural and social fields. It can be considered as an intervention in favour of the creation of a laboratory not only of artistic but also sociological creativity by the fusion of subjects and ideas. Be in the forefront of the world of communication and culture: join us! The registration is free and open to all Italian and foreign video makers from the age of 18.
All feature films and short films by a maximum length of 20 minutes are admitted to the competition.
All categories of movies but fictions will be accepted. The following list show an example of the category of the films:
•    Architecture and Design;
•    art videos;
•    documentaries;
•    animation;
•    abstract videos;
•    experimental;
•    dance videos;
•    music videos; All works will have to be subtitled in English, otherwise they will automatically be excluded from the competition .
Each participant may take part in the Festival with only and no more than two works.
All works will be preselected by a selection Committee composed by the organizers,
industry experts and social and cultural workers.
The selected works will be admitted to the competition and will be announced on the Festival website www.aresfestival.com , and evalueted by the jury, which will award prizes as listed below: - Award for "Best work";
- Award for "B est work" dealing with social and/or environmental responsibility issue;
- Award " U nder 35".
The entry form, available on the Festival web page www.aresfestival.com and on www.ergoform.it , must be entirely filled and accompanied by at least two scenes pictures of the film. The entry form and a copy of and identity document of the director must be submitted and sent in duplicate to the following address:
ERGOFORM Soc. Coop.
Viale Santa Panagia, 90
96100 Siracusa, Italy For more information visit the website www.aresfestival.com and read carefully all the competition rules!
Contact: contest@aresfestival.com collapse

eVolo Magazine is pleased to invite students, architects, engineers, and designers from around the globe to take part in the 2011 Skyscraper Competition.The annual eVolo Skyscraper Competition is a forum for the discussion, development... more

eVolo Magazine is pleased to invite students, architects, engineers, and designers from around the globe to take part in the 2011 Skyscraper Competition.The annual eVolo Skyscraper Competition is a forum for the discussion, development, and promotion of innovative concepts for vertical density. It examines the relationship between the skyscraper and the natural world, the skyscraper and the community, and the skyscraper and the city.The exponential increase of the world’s population and its unprecedented shift from rural to urban areas has prompted hundreds of new developments without adequate urban planning and poor architectural design. The aim of this competition is to redefine what we understand as a skyscraper and initiate a new architectural discourse of economic, environmental, intellectual, and perceptual responsibility that could ultimately modify our cities and improve our way of life.  The use of new materials, technologies, aesthetics, and novel spatial organizations, along with studies on globalization, flexibility, adaptability, and the digital revolution are some of the multi-layered elements that the participants should take into consideration. This is also an investigation on the public and private space and the role of the individual and the collective in the creation of a dynamic and adaptive vertical community.There are no restrictions in regards to site, program or size. The objective is to provide maximum freedom to the participants to engage the project without constraints in the most creative way. What is a skyscraper in the 21st century? What are the historical, contextual, social, urban, and environmental responsibilities of these mega-structures?
JuryBenjamin Aranda  [principal Aranda\Lasch]
Juan Azulay  [principal Matter Management, professor at Southern California Institute of Architecture]
Mario Cipresso [principal Studio Shift, professor at University of Southern California]
Ted Givens [associate director RMJM]
Eric Goldemberg [principal Monad Studio, professor at University of Miami]
Jose Gonzalez [principal Softlab, professor at Pratt Institute]
John Hill [editor Archidose]
Mitchell Joachim [principal Terreform One, professor at New York University]
Andrew Liang  [principal Studio 0.10., professor at University of Southern California]
Chris Lasch  [principal Aranda\Lasch]
Neri Oxman [principal Materialecology, Presidential Fellow at MIT Media Lab]
Javier Quintana [principal Taller Basico de Arquitectura, Dean of IE School of Architecture]
Rezza Rahdian [Architect, Second Place 2009 Skyscraper Competition]
Michel Rojkind [principal Rojkind Arquitectos]
Michael Szivos [principal Softlab, professor at Pratt Institute]
Awards1st place – US $5000
2nd place – US $2000
3rd place – US $1000
collapse

  ARCHITECT’s Annual Design Review is a juried competition celebrating the best of American architecture. Winners are selected from built projects completed over the last year, and awards will be given in six project-type categories... more

  ARCHITECT’s Annual Design Review is a juried competition celebrating the best of American architecture. Winners are selected from built projects completed over the last year, and awards will be given in six project-type categories: Work, Play, Live, Grow, Move and Bond. Projects must have been completed after June 30, 2009, and must have been built in the United States or designed by a U.S. firm. Judging will take place in August 2010. Winning entries will be notified in September 2010 and published in the November 2010 issue of ARCHITECT.   Deadlines July 30, 2010: regular submission deadline (postmark) August 4, 2010: late submission deadline (postmark, additional fee required)   For more information, go to architectmagazine.com/adr or e-mail adr@architectmagazine.com collapse