Why shelters?

The competition is an extension of Learning By Doing, an exhibition in the Guggenheim Museum Sackler Center for Arts Education that features plans, photographs, and models of student-built shelters from the Frank Lloyd Wright School of Architecture. For the past seven decades, students at this school have taken on the challenge of designing, building, and living in small shelters nestled in the landscapes of the school’s Arizona and Wisconsin campuses. In working on these shelters, students consider human needs for safety and comfort, as well as the relationship between architecture and place.

Design It: Shelter Competition opens up the project to you. If you could build a shelter anywhere in the world, where would it be? How would you design it to respond to the surrounding environment?

Virtual shelter design with Google SketchUp

Key Dates and Deadlines

You can submit your design from now until August 23. After the submission period, current Frank Lloyd Wright School of Architecture students will select a group of finalists. Public voting on these finalists opens on September 7 and runs until October 10. On October 21, 2009, the People’s Prize will be announced along with a special Juried Prize chosen by a jury of experts.

Accept the Challenge

find out more about how to enter the competition!

SYSTM is a Design Bar, SYSTM is also an Art Gallery. Everything in one but actually SYSTM is projection space for your Idea!

Seats like benches, chairs,  stool has to be design with the fitting tables…

We are looking for an innovative seats corner concept? Can you convince us with you idea? take  part and submit us you idea until the 27 of July by contacting info@systm-berlin.com

We are looking for student and young Designer submission!

SystM design Bar, Art gallery, exhibition space CALL FOR ENTRIES

It seems difficult to understand how it is possible that more than 500 Offices worked  on open competition organized by the state and that at the end nobody get honored! It is also useless to remind that many time in those kind of competitions, architects, designers and artists are working for free.

I try myself to do the competition, but after few weeks it come out that the difficulties we are facing are probably due to the complexity of the topic or to the unclear or too ambitious will of the organizer. We finally decided not to take part.

Are the 500 participants (people who submits their work) not good enough or was the question bad formulated by the client. Are some organizations involved protecting the participants?

Frédéric Louis Fourrichon, Berlin

The Category will evaluate product design submissions. The selections will be made according to a defined system: Creativity 50%; Composition, Aesthetics 20%; Design Completeness 20%; Design Presentation 10%.

Deadline for entries: 10 June 2009, 24:00 Taipei local time (GMT+08:00)

The competition is Divided into two seperate parts : Professionals and Students.

Awards:

• Gold 1 winner NT$500,000 (approx.US$15,000), and a certificate
• Silver 1 winner NT$200,000 (approx.US$6,000), and a certificate
• Bronze 1 winner NT$100,000 (approx.US$3,000), and a certificate
• Honorable Mention winners NT$10,000 (approx.US$300), and a certificate

For complete information and regulations: http://tidc.boco.com.tw

Award ceremony and exhibition: Winning submissions will be exhibited from 2-18 October 2009.

Registration :

Contact information:
2009 Taiwan International Design Competition General Section Secretariat
Taiwan Design Center
3F, Bldg.G, 3-1 Park Street, Nangang Taipei 115, Taiwan
TEL: +886-2-2655-8199 ext.163 FAX: +886-2-2655-8299

Intro

All sustainability is local, the saying goes. But how can manufactured, transportable products such as furniture become “local”? In a global market, can there be a truly regional product?

Historically, many chairs evolved out of the subtle relationships between culture and climate, people and place. The low tilt of the Adirondacks Chair nestled into the mountainous terrain of upper New York State, mingling among the hemlocks from which it was made, and its wide arms speak of lazy summer days. The springy Joggling Bench is the very picture of Charleston’s narrow porches and hot, sticky evenings. And both use little material—the original Adirondacks Chair was made from a dozen pieces cut from a single board, and the Joggling Bench is a single board.

How we sit relates more to culture than anatomy, and many cultures are chair-free. Ghandi sat on the floor as a way to resist “Westernization” and honor local customs. The hammock originated 1,000 years ago in migratory cultures of Central America—woven from the bark of the Hamack tree, it traveled light, floated above the ground to fend off insects, and breathed in the humid air.

Challenge

Design an original chair that embodies and enhances a particular place, anywhere in the world but one you know and love, even if you don’t live there. We hope to see ideas from across the globe. Your concept might reinterpret local customs or start from scratch, but either way it should stimulate a tangible sense of belonging to its cultural and natural context. Demonstrate visually and verbally how your design springs from local conditions:

• Identity of place
• Regional ecology
• Indigenous materials
• Conservation of resources through form
• Culturally determined notions of comfort
• Social history

How does your design fit—right here? How does it create a good fit between people and place, a good fit for the body, a good fit for the ecosystem?

The focus of the competition is the lounge chair or similar casual seating-simple objects to assist the body in repose. Commercial office chairs and other specialized functions are not appropriate, but otherwise you have as much latitude as you can explain and illustrate in a convincing way. Outdoor and public furniture are especially encouraged. Entries are restricted to original concepts that have not been built. Commercially sold products are prohibited.

In addition to the special criteria of the “Fit Right Here” challenge, entries should demonstrate the three basic principles of “One Good Chair”:

* Make good (Material conservation). How can shape optimize resources in design, fabrication, and shipping? What forms create little waste but lots of taste?
* Feel good (Physical comfort). How can shape aid the body in the act of sitting? How do different people sit? How might they?
* Look good (Emotional resonance). What kinds of images create emotional bond between viewer and product? What is the intersection of sustainability and sensuality?

Some of the participants and winners of last edition |

Prizes

Cash awards to be announced.

Prototypes of the finalist entries will be built, pending sponsorship. Details to be announced.

Winners and finalists will be published in a variety of media outlets to be announced.

Select entries may be featured in Lance Hosey’s forthcoming book, The Shape of Green: Aesthetics, Ecology, and Design
PROCESS

Dates and details subject to change. More information to be announced.

Phase 1

Concepts
Phase 1 will consist of digital concepts submitted on line.

Judges will select up to 10 runners-up to receive recognition, including or in addition to approximately 5 finalists to continue to Phase 2.

Phase 2

Finals
Prototypes built (pending sponsorship). Details to be announced.

Finalists will travel to Las Vegas (expenses covered), where the prototypes will be judged in person by a finalist jury to be determined.

The awards ceremony will take place at the annual Las Vegas Market at the World Market Center, September 14-17.
SCHEDULE

Dates and details subject to change. More information to be announced.
Phase 1 April 6 Registration opens
May 1 Entries accepted
May 30 Registration closes
June 15 Final questions due
June 30 ENTRIES DUE @ 5pm
Phase 2 August 1 Finalists informed
Prototypes fabricated
Sept. 14-17 Judging and awards ceremony, Las Vegas Market

The San Francisco Bay Conservation and Development Commission (BCDC)––the California state agency responsible for protecting San Francisco Bay––today launched an initiative called Rising Tides, a first-of-its-kind international design idea competition aimed at generating innovative solutions that deal with adapting shoreline areas to sea level rise. The competition is a response to scientific estimates that global warming may raise water levels in the Bay over four feet by the end of the century.

The competition was authorized by the 27-member commission in late 2008 and is made possible by a grant from the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration’s Office of Ocean and Coastal Resource Management. The competition offers monetary awards and international recognition for outstanding ideas in a variety of categories. The first prize in the competition is $10,000. Registration begins on April 6, 2009, and submissions are due June 29, 2009. To register, visit http://www.risingtidescompetition.com.

Entries will be juried by a panel of renowned leaders in the fields of architecture, landscape architecture, engineering, life science and environmental policy. All entries will be exhibited in San Francisco the week of July 13-19, 2009. The competition is open to everyone, including individuals, organizations and design firms as well as academics, researchers, students and innovators of all types.

“The prospect of climate change is real,” stated BCDC Executive Director Will Travis. “Through this competition, our goal is to motivate people to think in new ways about how to adapt coastal development to sea level rise.”

Over half the world’s population lives in coastal areas that are vulnerable to the worst effects of global warming, including rising seas and intense storms that can result in flooded communities, inundated transportation and aviation facilities and submerged wetlands. The goal of the competition is to generate and share design responses to these challenges that can be applicable in the San Francisco Bay region and elsewhere.

About BCDC
The San Francisco Bay Conservation and Development Commission (BCDC) was created by the state Legislature in 1965 with the charge of minimizing the unnecessary filling of San Francisco Bay. Through BCDC’s efforts, the Bay is now over 24 square miles larger than it was forty years ago. Unfortunately, the greatest threat to the San Francisco Bay Area over the next century is not that the Bay will get smaller, but that climate change will make the Bay larger and threaten existing communities, public infrastructure and wetlands. One of the most publicized impacts of global warming is a predicted acceleration of sea level rise, 1.4 meters (about 55 inches) over the next 100 years, perhaps even higher depending upon the rate at which glaciers and other ice sheets on land melt.

Making San Francisco Bay Better
State of California SAN FRANCISCO BAY CONSERVATION AND DEVELOPMENT COMMISSIONArnold Schwarzenegger, Governor 50 California Street, Suite 2600 San Francisco, California 94111 (415) 352-3600 Fax: (415) 352-3606 info@bcdc.ca.gov http://www.bcdc.ca.gov

Contact:
David Meckel, davidm@bcdc.ca.gov

Why the title “Objects Around the Tablescape“?
Patrick Chia in conversation with Patrick Chia

• PC: Why the terms “objects” and not “products” or “sculpture”?
• PC: “Object ” is free - it can be any thing. It could come as it is. It does not come with the baggage and conforms that “product ” or “sculpture” has. It does not takes positions, it is non absolute.
• PC: Why ” table” + “scape” and not “desktop”?
• PC: Every thing that exists has a relationship with and impacts another. A tree does not only provide shade and fresh air on a landscape, it is also a measure of seasons. It is a measure of time, a measure of space and also a measure of our existence. The object does not exist by itself. Like in the landscape - trees or grass, everything is related in time and in space.
• PC: Why “around” and not “on”?
• PC: “On” is foreign and transplanted. “Around” seems more organic and it suggest s that the objects have been all along.
• PC: Please describe the concept, choice of material and process for each of the pieces.
• PC: We are interested in the innate quality of the material and its process; looking at a block of wood and asking it “what it would like to be? “. We are looking for an encounter that has a visceral resonance.

d. lab^TM is a commercial entity and trademark created by the Design
Incubation Centre to communicate its research and outcomes through
commercial distribution channels. d . lab^TM aims to examine and create
new possibilities and new relationships between man, object and his
environment .

The Design Incubation Centre is a design research laboratory which
investigates and develops new design tools to find new possibilities for
the practice of design. This is done through projects that analyze the
emerging and evolving human needs, technology and social trends.
The Design Incubation Centre is par t of the Depar tment of Architecture
at the School of Design and Environment in the National University of
Singapore.

The awards are open to all individuals and organisations that have made an outstanding contribution to the world of architecture.

Previous winners have included the likes of Zaha Hadid, David Chipperfield, SOM, Steven Holl and Terry Farrell.

Award winners reaped many benefits including increased PR opportunities, first-rate content for their own websites and additional coverage in the post-event write up in the LEAF Review.

Who applies?

The LEAF Awards attracts a diverse range of entrants’ year on year. From David Chipperfield Architects, Zaha Hadid to Terry Farrel and HOK. But no firm is considered too big or too small. The panel of judges takes into consideration a wide variety of factors to determine the chosen finalists all of which are based on the building, its design and how it fits its purpose.

Why attend?

The Emirates Glass LEAF Awards 2009 is the perfect occasion for you to entertain your most valued clients and colleagues. It is truly a unique opportunity to celebrate the world’s finest architecture and building design, and provide guests with an experience they will never forget.

Evening entertainment

From the moment you arrive you will be taken aback by the exceptional attention to detail that is insisted upon at every one of our events. As you arrive at the venue you will be greeted with a pre-dinner cocktail reception, and will have the chance to meet and socialise with the evening’s other guests.

You will then take your seats for a spectacular three-course dinner which will precede the presenting of awards. The ceremony concludes with the presentation of the LEAF Award.

For more information about the Emirates Glass LEAF Awards 2009 please contact:

Simona Kastly
Tel: +44 207 915 9796
Email: simonakastly@vibevents.com

more info on the The Emirates Glass Leaf Awards 2009

The project has been carried out once a year since 2006 and grows every constantly. In July 2008, for example, 76 artists from 9 different countries took part in it.
The basic idea with the project is to bring art to the public in a different way from normal; to surprise people and bring them into contact with art in their everyday life.
The initial impulse for this project came with the tightening of a law, in 2005, equating sticking up posters in public places with graffiti-spraying. But the idea of distributing art by bike came more from the search for new ways to bring art straight to society,
and have more fun doing so, than out of fear of possible punishment.
Papergirl is, in short: participatory, analogue, non-commercial and impulsive.

This means:

- Everyone can participate by contributing something and/or by helping with the distribution. Before the rolls are delivered, all contributions presented can be viewed in an exhibition where visitors can look over the complete contents without being fragmented.
- Papergirl is distributed like a newspaper, but not edited or printed like it. It consists of art pieces which are rolled up together. Contributions are handed in by mail or personally and are later included in the art rolls. There are no guidelines as to format, subject matter or quantity, so originals, prints, photos, copies etc. come together. Each roll contains 10-15 different works, meaning that each one holds a unique combination of works!
- The art rolls cannot be sold and they are not delivered to subscribers.
- Giving the work out by bike means that there is no time for any stereotypes when choosing recipients of the pieces. You have to react really fast and spontaneously. Chance plays its part and there is no time Our motto is: Anyone who picks up a roll is lucky, and money can’t buy luck. And giving something is most fun when you don’t expect anything in return.

The art rolls cannot be sold and they are not delivered to subscribers.

Please submit your works at:

GULASCH
Winstr. 9, Berlin, Germany

Wednesday, June 17

or write to info@papergirl-berlin.de and ask for airmail info

http://www.papergirl-berlin.de/

While big and wealthy cities in many parts of the world challenge the limits of possibility by building gigantic hotels with fancy shapes, erecting sky-high office towers or constructing hovering philharmonic temples, Berlin sets up a decent mountain. Yet, never at a loss for anything, we do not have to build it. We just picture it to ourselves and pretend its beautiful existence to everyone else: It’s peak exceeds 1000 metres and is covered with snow from September to March…
Hamburg, as stiff as flat, turns green with envy, rich and once proud Munich starts to feel ashamed of its distant Alp-panorama and planners of the Middle-East, experienced in taking the spell off any kind of architectural utopia immediately design authentic copies of the iconic Berlin-Mountain. Tempelhof no longer only is on Berliners’ minds: People come in flocks to - not to see the mountain. Thus,

Come and see The Berg!

The NIAGARA-CHALLENGE
1 months to beat the Niagara Falls

Niagara Falls panorama

THE BERG challenges the NIAGARA FALLS as the more popular sightseeing attraction. Intermediate results:

THE BERG 2040 - NIAGARA FALLS 2502. The Berg grows faster - so keep it …

Participate and become a fan!!!

http://www.the-berg.de/

With over 100 entries in previous competitions and a prestigious Jury whose members are from the design departments of the main European automotive vehicle construction companies, the “Maier S. Coop. Design Competition” has become consolidated in the Design Competition domain.

The Competition Organising Committee therefore encourages designers, engineers, students, amateurs and professionals alike, to take part in this year’s competition, presenting their creative and innovative proposals for vehicle interiors.

DEADLINE FOR ENTRIES

The deadline for presentation of Projects is 30 April 2009.

1) AIM OF THE COMPETITION

The aim of the competition is to award prizes for projects consisting of ideas for new products, focusing on vehicle interiors, more specifically for doors, with innovations affecting their opening and closing lifetime and other uses. These new product ideas should be geared to facilitating user operation, simplifying the currently-existing systems, including new features, improving driver and passenger safety, modernising the appearance of the vehicle interior using new decoration techniques or including environmental improvements.

The proposals are to focus on the following products:

• Inside Door Opening Handle.
• Door Panel Handgrip.
• Speaker Grille.

Door Panel Embellishers.

2) SUBJECT

The subject may be freely chosen within the product scope described in point 1 of these rules. By way of a non-limiting example, the proposals may focus on:

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Element inclusion and cost reduction: solutions that integrate elements and are geared towards cost reduction with respect to currently-existing solutions.
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Vehicle interior cleanliness: ideas for products with technical characteristics (materials, decoration) geared towards keeping the area clean.
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Haptics: ideas for products that respond to the user via a sensation (the product responding to touch, sight, smell).
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Ergonomics (user adaptation): ideas for door area products improving driver and passenger ergonomics.
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Appearance and customisation: ideas for technologies integrated to the door that provide new appearance possibilities and vehicle customisation solutions.
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Interior lighting for decoration: ideas for products, materials and coatings where direct or indirect light gives rise to new forms of decoration.
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Safety: technical solutions that detect, warn, prevent or reduce driver and passenger impact in case of accident, improving on currently-existing solutions.
*

Environment: ideas for products including environmental concepts.

3) PARTICIPANTS

Any natural person or legal entity may take part in the competition.

For information purposes, persons or companies from the following areas could participate:

* Designers and Design Companies.
* Students and Universities.
* Public or Private Design Entities.
* Research and Development Centres.
* Automotive Sector Companies.
* Others.

More info on the competition WEBSITE

S. Meier Automotive Design Competition

The bauhaus lab marseille proposes an art residency inspired by Moholy-Nagy’s journey to Marseilles in 1929. His experimental film “Marseille Vieux-Port” will be the starting point for reflection led by artists during the residency. Marseille’s urban development, a contemporary reinterpretation of the Bauhaus and the interdisciplinarity will also be discussed. A lecture’s programme led by actors from different art fields, architecture and urbanism will feed this research process.
To stimulate exchange of ideas and interaction with local communities, the bauhaus lab marseille will offer an opportunity to each artist to conduct a multimedia workshop for young people under the supervision of professional trainers.
A final exhibition open to the public features the results of this reflection and creation time.

To host this event, the bauhaus lab marseille proposes to create a polymorphic space at La Friche de la Belle de Mai, the cultural centre of Marseille. An architectural competition is open to create this cultural travelling centre.

Bahuhaus LAb Marseille Architecture competition

Objective of the Delta Awards
1. To encourage public recognition of the products that stand out for their innovation, the conceptual originality shown in their design, for their environmental value and popularity among the public, as well as their formal production and manufacturing quality, through selecting award-winning designs.
2. To make the Delta Awards a reference point for promotion.
3. To emphasise the value of design and its contribution to society and the economy, and underline the social significance of design.

Participants
Products by Spanish and foreign designers, produced and distributed by Spanish or foreign companies, and that reach production no later than 30th April 2009 may be entered for the 2009 ADI-FAD Delta Awards.
Designers and companies may enter for the awards themselves or at the invitation of ADI-FAD.
Only products marketed in Spain in the period between the last two competitions and the present may be entered. Products entered in previous editions may not be entered again. Versions of non-original products will not be accepted when, in the duly advised opinion of the Jury, there are clear signs of plagiarism.

Importants Dates:
End of call for entries 1st Phase: 30-4-09
Comunication Selection: 1-6-09
End of presentation of documentation of selected products: 15-7-09
Presentation of products at FAD: 2-11-09
Award ceremony: 5-11-09

We will be sure to follow and publish the results as soon as they come out ! keep tuned …

Delta Awards Design Competition

The logo is intended as a public-domain design, similar to the familiar möbius strip on current paper/plastic/metal recycling bins.

The 4th Bin is to be the means by which e-waste is responsibly collected. Our intent is to see a clearly labeled 4th bin placed centrally in every building in New York City, and eventually all across the country.

Entry Fee
$20.00 (USD) per individual or team.
Notes:

• Entry fees are non-refundable

• Entry fee covers both logo and bin design entries

For further inquires please email us at:  helpme@4thbin.org

Prize Money
Logo Design

• 1st Place: $1,500.00
• 2nd Place: $500.00

BIN Design

• 1st Place: $3,000.00
• 2nd Prize: $1,000.00

Popular Vote Winners

• Logo: TBD
• BIN: TBD

Timeline
Competition Launch: April 2, 2009
Online Submissions Accepted: May 1, 2009
Registration Deadline: June 19, 2009
Submission Deadline: July 19, 2009
Announcement of Winners: September 2009
Public Voting Launch: October 2009
Popular Vote Winners Announced: November 2009

Jury
Allan Chochinov (Core77)
Scott Henderson (Studio Scott Henderson + MINT)
Aki Ishida (Parsons The New School for Design + Ishida/Crandall)
Victoria Milne (New York City Department of DESIGN + CONSTRUCTION)
Susan S. Szenasy (Metropolis Magazine)
William Menking (The Architect’s Newspaper / Pratt Institute)