This national competition, managed by Infonavit, invites undergraduate students of urban planning, architecture, or related fields to develop design strategies and solutions for improved habitability and appropriate population density in housing for workers in Mexico, within the context of the COVID-19 pandemic.
Detroit Month of Design is a citywide celebration of creativity that gathers designers and the greater community to celebrate Detroit’s role as a national and global design capital. Every September, partners from all across Detroit, from emerging studios to established companies and educational institutions, come together to show off their latest works and ideas. These cross-disciplinary events take place in all corners of the city, highlighting the work that makes Detroit a City of Design.
Design with Nature Contest: Responsive Cities 2021
The Institute for Advanced Architecture of Catalonia (IAAC) with the Advanced Architecture Group and the BUILD Solutions project partners are proud to announce the Design with Nature Contest, a global platform to experiment and rethink urban environments in response to today’s global challenges.
Festival Fugaz, an urban intervention festival in Greater Concepción, seeks to recognize and promote the territory as a space of diverse cultural expression and identity. Through a series of artistic activities that encourage community occupation of public space, the festival aims to foster citizen participation in open cultural events and revalue the characteristic elements of Greater Concepción's physical heritage as fundamental settings for urban life.
Sirius, the first federal territory in Russia, is initiating the competition for an urban design concept of its 7,5 kilometre long seafront promenade. The open call for teams and individual candidates from Russia and beyond is launched on the competition website. This competition is organized by VEB.RF, The Center for Urban Studies of the Sirius University of Science and Technology, Strelka KB, ProGorod.
Novos Talentos Brasileiros – Design & Arte is now accepting submissions for its 2021 edition, featuring a new category this year: "Decorative Objects." From September 10 to September 26, 2021, CasaShopping will host the 6th edition of the project, promoted by Morar Mais Cultural, with the goal of serving as a showcase for emerging talent and boosting the design market.
FlexiPod: Your Space, Anywhere Everywhere. Image by Lola Tartakover (Arts and Creatives ltd))
Throughout the current global circumstances, we at Arts and Creatives have experienced first-hand the challenges that architecture students and graduates are facing in maintaining design motivation and securing roles in industry. This is why we decided to launch a competition solely for young architects and architecture students with the aim to enhance skills, raises awareness of topical design issues and prepare for the next step in the architectural journey.
Comuns Virtual Laboratory - unveiling processes in Latin America. Art: Pedro Britto
The 2nd edition of Comuns—an experimental and participatory virtual laboratory—aims to stimulate the exchange of new experiences and reflections on the social, ecological, cultural, and political technologies for transforming Latin American territories, considering the current context of urban, social, and geopolitical spatial crisis.
The XXI Nuevo León Architecture Biennial is an event for meeting, reflection, discussion, critique, and proposal that has become a benchmark for the analysis of architectural practice in the city.
How is a city managed? What makes a good city? Approaching urban territory management from multiple perspectives, the Specialization in Cities offers a unique educational experience, training students in consulting, as well as the development and implementation of strategic management plans and projects for municipal territories.
The Europan 16 topic focuses on living cities as a new paradigm, in which new kinds of synergies can be considered between the environmental, biological, social, economic, cultural and political dimensions. This paradigm leads us to think in terms of co-evolution and interactions, and to work with regenerative project dynamics, combining metabolic and inclusive vitalities. The italian cities of Bitonto and San Donà Venezia are looking for ideas to implement a strategic urban revitalization project and intend to start a process of implementation with the awarded teams.
The new Archstorming competition takes us to Bamako, Mali. The goal is to design and build a new urban school for Enko Education, a rapidly growing network of international African schools that provides affordable, quality education to give African youth access to the world's top universities.
Terra. It’s the 6th edition of the Triennale for 2022. It will take place between October and December 2022, chief-curated by Cristina Veríssimo and Diogo Burnay. “Terra explores how new paradigms are changing our ways of place-making in a globalised Planet. Terra addresses how climate cha(lle)nges, pressure on resources and socioeconomic and environmental inequities are profoundly intertwined”.