Competitions
A competition for built residential landscapes
The James Rose Center for Landscape Research and Design has released a call for entries for a design compettiont to explore "the aesthetics of landscape experience in the era of sustainability." The competition is focued on solutions to the ubiquitous small-lot, detached single-family, residential condition. Entries should employ sustainable strategies and tactics to create human landscape experiences that are beautiful, inspiring, perhaps profound; and which might serve as examples for transforming the suburban residential fabric.
This is a juried competetition open to all, including landscape architects, landscape designers, architects, individuals, teams, or firms. Submission deadline is April 16, 2010.
Link: Suburbia Transformed Competition
Link: James Rose Center
Related: James Rose: landscape theorist, author, and practitioner (L+L 5/12/2004)
“PERSONAL INFRASTRUCTURES” — 2010 SMIBE Short Film Competition
In its second year, SMIBE Competition challenges us to create and submit 3 minutes videos about our built environment.
For this competition, SMIBE welcomes moving image stories that investigate, explore, and entertain our communities about social, environmental, political, technological, and economic issues that designers of the built world should be discussing.
Link: SMIBE 2010 - Personal Infrastructures
Design Lab 2008 challenge: Design Home Appliances for the Internet generation
Electrolux Design Lab, established in 2003, is an annual global design competition open to undergraduate and graduate industrial design students who are invited to present innovative, daring ideas and solutions for home appliances.
Visit Electrolux Design Lab for more information.
Entry Deadline: 30 May 2008
Finalists Announced: End of June 2008
Finals in Zurich: 08 and 09 October 2008
GBD Architecture Competition Phase 1
Beijing based Thinking Hands has placed a call for architectural ideas for their 500m3 Design Competition. The competition is part of the development of Gao Bei Dian Art District, renovation of the Phase 1 or 'old factory area', on Beijing's east Fifth Ring Road.
The competetiton brief is to design a 50m2 by 10m high (500m3) space. It should provide external open space, guarantee a flexible workspace, and a private living environment.
The competition is open to all creative professionals, and there is no entry fee. Total prize money is ¥250,000.
Over two hundred 500M3 units will combine to form the GBD Art District Phase 1 Architecture Competition project, to be completed before the 2008 Olympic Games.
Link: 500M3 Design - GBD Art District Phase 1 Architecture Competition
Registration Deadline: March 30, 2007
Submission Deadline: May 28, 2007
Publish your work in Pamphlet Architecture 29!
To promote and foster the development and circulation of architectural ideas, Pamphlet Architecture is again offering an opportunity for architects, designers, theorists, urbanists, and landscape architects to publish their designs, manifestos, ideas, theories, ruminations, hopes, and insights for the future of the designed and built world. With far-ranging topics including the alphabet, algorithms, machines, and music, each Pamphlet is unique to the individual or group that authors it. This call for ideas seeks projects that possess the rigor and excitement found throughout the rich history of Pamphlet Architecture.
Link: Pamphlet Architecture
Deadline: November 15, 2006 January 16, 2007
Originally posted 10/20/2006
Contemporary Ephemeral Gardens in celebration of Québec City's 400th anniversary
The Ephemeral Gardens will be an artistic event where creators from different horizons are invited to bring an artistic viewpoint on the major themes of Québec City's 400th anniversary. This viewpoint will be expressed through creator gardens : outdoor creations using mediums that combine different elements, including plant materials. The gardens will be on view at Espace 400e , a focal point of the festivities to be created alongside Louise basin in downtown Québec City.
The goal is to create 6 contemporary art gardens.
This call for proposals is aimed at seasoned and budding creators. They may be architects, landscape architects, or visual artists and may be from Québec City, Canada, or countries historically linked to Québec City: France, the United Kingdom, and the United States.
Registration deadline is January 31, 2007
Link: Québec 400: Ephemeral Gardens
skatedeck design exhibit
The Works International Visual Arts Society and IDEA are bringing back the annual FROST design exhibit which is slated for early December 2006 (4th to 9th)
This time out the focus shifts from furniture design to skate and longboard design.
The objective of this year's exhibit is to focus on the skateboard/ longboard design culture. From its early history to visions of the future,*FROST will explore the many aspects of the board from graphics to accessories and its relationship with the end user.
Designers are asked to create a graphic of their choice for a blank skate deck and/or longboard deck. All submissions will be juried by IDEA and 30 skate decks and 30 longboard decks will be chosen for production.
Olive Skateboardsª will be printing the winning graphics onto their respective decks that will be displayed and sold by silent auction at *FROST2006.
Apart from the graphics component, the exhibit also has a Conceptual category where designers are asked to create outside the normal realm of skate design with items such as custom deck designs, apparel and skate environments.
Submissions are currently being accepted until September 21st with the chosen entries being named early October.
Link: IDEA
Link: The Works
Link: Olive
A sketch competition for duilding designs in dramatic locations
This competition (sponsored by Building Design, SketchUp, et al.) "offers you the opportunity to stretch your creative mind to the full. The buildings, of course, are not going to be built - the aim is to see what you think is possible..." This is a sketch competition - not developed designs - and is open to architects, architectural technicians, students, designers and engineers.
The three sites are: the base of Mount Everest, the Niger desert, and the River Thames estuary. The three briefs will become available for download in different periods.
Link: Line of Site
An open competition to design a chair, sofa or stool that reflects our time
Even though the function of a chair as an aid to sitting has not really changed over time, its design has evolved in parallel to society. It has reflected the developments in technology, architecture, and industrial design. Furthermore, chairs have been a social, aesthetic, and symbolic statement. Chair design has been a declaration of attitudes, ideas, and viewpoints.
During the XX Century there were some chair designs that succeeded to reflect the society of their time. Some of the best known examples are Charles and Ray Eames' molded plywood chairs, Alvar Alto's No. 41 Chair or Marcel Breuer's B3 Chair. Their highly innovative designs responded both to ergonomics and manufacture processes.
As our society has changed we are looking for a chair design that succeeds in communicating the XXI Century personality.
This is an open competition to design a chair, sofa, or stool that reflects our time.
My chair is a reflection on style, trend, attitude, and culture.
Link: Luvo
UPDATE (5-14-06) - winners have been announced
Contemporary Furniture Design Exhibit
THAW is one of the largest contemporary design exhibits in Western Canada, and will take place during The Works Art and Design Festival from June 23rd to July 5th, 2006. THAW 2006 is looking to showcase medium to large sized furniture, accessories and lighting designs.
The show is juried and curated by the Industrial Designers of Edmonton Association (IDEA), a group with which our very own Adriean is affiliated.
Deadline is April 1, 2006... no foolin'.
Link: THAW 2006 Call for submissions (pdf)
Link: IDEA
Site specific installations at Stone Quarry Hill Art Park
Stone Quarry Hill Art Park, one of the first outdoor sculpture parks in the country, is seeking site-specific installations from artists, architects, landscape architects who integrate notions of point of view, landscape, architecture and art. Proposals featuring collaborative and interactive concepts as well as green/organic architecture will be given special attention. Stone Quarry Hill is unique in its mission of showcasing emerging and established artists whose work focuses on the relationships between art and nature.
Deadline is September 1, 2006.
Link: Stone Quarry Hill
- Site/Sight: Landscape & Architecture
Via: Archinect
Draw attention to America's irreplaceable and diverse garden and horticultural heritage
Historic buildings are not the only treasures on our nation's cultural endangered species list -- America 's landscape legacy of gardens is also at risk. In an effort to raise awareness for these nationally significant resources, the Washington, D.C.-based Cultural Landscape Foundation (TCLF) along with Garden Design magazine, have issued a Call for Nominations - Landslide 2006: Spotlight on the Garden.
Nominate a great American landscape. Deadline for nominations is January 31, 2006.
Link: The Cultural Landscape Foundation - Landslide 2006
Via: Archinect
Help develop a guide for safer rural buildings
It's competition day at L+L... this one by Architecture for Humanity.
In an effort to improve the long term shelter needs of those displaced by the Kashmir earthquake, the competition seeks to assemble a manual for distributing knowledge of earthquake resistant housing construction to make sure that homes are rebuilt safely and potentially save lives in the future.
It is free to enter and teams have until January 20th 2006 to put together schemes that utilize local materials and technology.
Link: Architecture for Humanity - Design[ER]
Via: Archinect
Design a cart that can provide shelter and storage.
For 2006 designboom started a non-profit-project : an international design competition under the title 'shelter in a cart'. The call for entries is now open. Participation is free. Deadline for entry submission is March 10, 2006.
The brief:
Urban homeless use carts to carry their possessions and to collect goods (like bottles, cardboard, etc.) that they then return to various recyclers in exchange for cash. this provides a small and valuable income. It is essential that your cart design not only accommodates all these functions but that it is affordable
(for production and for private parties or charity organisations
who wish to donate them).
Link: Designboom - Shelter in a Cart
One Small Project, one big impact
If leftover people, leftover spaces and leftover materials are part of your life, then One Small Project would like to hear from you. The architects, students, designers and artists contributing to One Small Project are working towards helping and profiling the conditions of people known typically as squatters, self-builders, slum dwellers, informal settlers or displaced persons, and are highlighting the unique projects that help some of the 1 billion people who find refuge and community among the spaces that people forgot about, and the materials they threw out.
In an upcoming book called Building More Wanting Less, Wes Janz PhD, RA Associate Professor of Architecture, Ball State University will feature the stories and projects that aim to draw attention to an unfortunate reality. A call for submissions is currently out.
Link: One Small Project
Publish your work in Pamphlet Architecture 28!
Founded in 1977 as an alternative to mainstream architectural publishing, Pamphlet Architecture encourages architects and writers to put forth their ideas, theories, and designs in modest, affordable booklets. Its success is legendary: Pamphlet Architecture has helped launch the careers of architects from Steven Holl and Lebbeus Woods to Zaha Hadid, and has had influence far exceeding the ad-hoc nature of these humble books.
Could your work spark the next generation of architectural discourse?
Pamplet Architecture is seeking practicing or aspiring architects, urbanists, and landscape architects with visually provocative and intellectually compelling ideas for the future of the designed and built world.
Link: Pamphlet Architecture
Deadline: October 10, 2005
Environmentally Sustainable Camping Shelter
"Ecoshack (Headed by SCI-Arc faculty member Stephanie Smith) is sponsoring a competition to design an environmentally sustainable camping shelter - a 'green' tent - that explores nature, culture and experience. Open to anyone with innovative ideas inspired by Southern California's 'green' lifestyle. Winners will be prototyped on a 5-acre site in Joshua Tree, California."
Via: SCI-Arc
Link: Green Tent
Link: ecoshack
