For the new edition of the AUDITORIUM lecture series, Stad en Architectuur vzw is looking for a curator/curators who can create a programme centered on this edition's topic “SLOW SPACE”. AUDITORIUM 21/2 will run from October 2021 to May 2022. Stad en Architectuur vzw is inviting interested candidate curators to apply.

Bowen Island Community Hub

“Quarantine Pod”
How to live with Pandemics
Forming a pod means total honesty on each family's part to take care of each other, considering the infected and the healthy in the family. “It’s almost like an algorithm of adding space and time and preventing something from encountering us.”
It is the safety buffer inside homes after pandemics.
This pod design aims to achieve comfort for both sides, keeping the family connected, in addition to the main purpose of infection prevention.
Ensuring an appropriate setting and adequate provisions

Capital city Podgorica announces public call for conceptual urban and architectural design for Golootočkih žrtava Square in Podgorica, Montenegro.

POLDRA – Public Sculpture Project Viseu promotes site-specific contemporary public art/art in Public Space. POLDRA seeks works that propose new interpretations of the sites and spaces as well as encourage interaction between the viewer and the sites themselves. Through this dynamic, the works of art aspire to initiate connections that exist beyond the primary act of looking.

A PUBLIC DIGITAL SPACE AT HOME
The basic principles of a home are shelter and a safe environment for its user. Whether it is raining, storming or sunny outside, your home is where you retreat to. Home has always played this role for humankind since the agricultural era. However, through changes in history, the home has changed as well. A home has evolved from a public place during the Archaic period to a private space during the Industrial period, when every family had their own home. Now in the 21st century, or the data age, the concept of a home has changed again.

For Planetary Governance is an open call for papers, projects, and research related to the topics of planetary governance, and how they are now and will continue to affect urban life, systems, and futures.
This collaboration between The Terraforming and Strelka Mag intends to solicit original and provocative outcomes that engage with the context of a (perhaps as-of-yet non-existent) “governance” in multiple guises—legal, political, cognitive, computational, linguistic, protocological, biological etc.—and, for this and through it, our capacity for collective autocomposition.
This initiative will feature ideas and projects that are surprising, pragmatic, unconventional, and honest—even if productively controversial. We presume that the work that most directly confronts the implications of today is full of risk.
Submit your proposal through this form by April 10. Selected participants will receive an honorarium of €150 for their pieces.
These themes below are prompts, not instructions or strict categories for potential submission. We invite departures from these starting points. The inquires for other geopolities are not against governmentality but on behalf of its reimagining, not the end of history but a long-delayed synthetic beginning.

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Call for DigitalFUTURES Young : Sea Level & Climate Change
We are reaching out to our community for the submission of students’ and young researchers’ projects for the DigitalFUTURES Young session on Sea Level & Climate Change. Research projects need to be submitted by the end of day on 27 March 2021. Selected projects will be presented on 10 April 2021 from 10.00 am EST. Presentations will last 10 minutes each.

Believing in the importance of supporting knowledge and policy production in the field of design and architecture, the Istanbul Design Biennial hosts a research programme titled Designing Resilience, in partnership with the Center for Arts, Design, and Social Research. The programme aims to work collaboratively with a selection of four women designers, curators, researchers, thinkers (two from Turkey and two from the US) who are actively investigating geopolitics to build new tools and systems for social, economic and mostly environmental resilience.

OPEN CALL - RAW Exhibition

GRAND PRIZE: $1000

Vilnius city municipality, together with Lithuanian Railways (LTG), have just announced an open international architectural competition for reconstruction of Railway Station, Central Station Square and Public transport terminal in Vilnius, the capital city of Lithuania.

Unconventional / Unorthodox / Unlikeness / Breaking the grid / Different /
Alternative / Outside the box / Countercultural.

DEADLINE EXTENDED!
Project Colette together with the The Institute for Advanced Architecture of Catalonia wishes to support this new generation and help them propose a new sustainable architecture and urbanism capable to face the challenges of our century.

International Competition for the National Museum of Korean Literature, S.Korea
(http://www.nmkl-compe.org)

INFORMATION
Layers of Design is launching a brand new and exciting competition that will look into developing temporary design solutions for people experiencing homelessness, an issue that is present all around us. There are so many reasons people become homeless. Many homeless people find it difficult to fit into society and feel unwelcomed. Public spaces should be a safe and fair space where all the members of a community can coexist together. This competition aims to bring positive strategies and scenarios that could aid people get back on their feet while transforming public spaces into becoming more energetic, engaging, and welcoming to all.

This Design Challenge offers student teams around the world the chance to design a concept for a real site in the 175-hectare Kalasatama neighbourhood near the centre of Helsinki, Finland.

The Chungcheongnam-do Government intends to construct 「Chungnam Art Museum」, an art power plant that opens up new imagination and future in Naepo New City.
In order to build a world-class contemporary art museum beyond the symbol of
the region, the winning proposal will be selected through an international invited design competition. Therefore, we hereby encourage you to submit Request for Qualifications(RFQ) for selection of the teams to be invited.

New Generations is a European platform that investigates the changes in the architectural profession ever since the economic crisis of 2008 by analysing some of the most innovative emerging practices at the European level, providing a new space for the exchange of knowledge and confrontation, theory, and production. The project was conceived by Itinerant Office in 2012.

PREMISE

INTRODUCTION:
Have you ever imagined what the architecture of Africa would look like today, if the great civilizations of Egypt, Timbuktu, Mali, the Dogon, Zulu, Yoruba, and thousands of other African empires had continued to develop and evolve in their own unique identity? Imagine the transformation of the African landscape into sprawling metropolises filled with architectural masterpieces celebrating new interpretations of traditional design elements, portrayed with all the comfort of modern innovations and technique.

PREMISE

PREMISE

Deadline: Midnight (BST) on Tuesday 1 June 2021
4 Prizes of £1000
The Drawing Matter Trust is pleased to announce the return of the Drawing Matter Writing Prize. The competition invites participants to carefully look at drawings and to consider what they reveal about the process of design, and the buildings or objects they represent.
The Writing Prize competition is open to anyone aged over 18, with or without a background in architecture or design. We welcome a broad range of approaches towards writing, and voices from art and architectural history, the sciences and humanities, alongside practitioners – architects, designers, artists and writers.
This year the competition will be judged by Prof. Adrian Forty and Prof. Briony Fer, with support from the Drawing Matter editorial team.
The competition winners, and other participants with outstanding entries, will be invited to publish their texts on Drawing Matter’s website. Covid-19 restrictions permitting, we hope to announce the winners on Saturday 17 July 2021 at the Drawing Matter Archive in Somerset.