2019

The IED (Istituto Europeo di Design) will host an IED Day on March 23, from 12:00 PM to 9:00 PM, featuring a series of activities open to the public. The event’s attractions include a tour of the secrets of Higienópolis and the IED building; workshops on theremin, dance, floral arrangement, silver jewelry, and mobile photography; a chat with digital influencers in travel and style; music by Jazz na Kombi; an exhibition; and a market featuring objects, books, and clothing. Due to limited capacity, advance registration for the workshops is required at ied.edu.br/iedday

The “Regional Forum on ATHIS and University Extension: Integrated Action in Urban Space” aims to connect students and professionals in the São Paulo Metropolitan Area who work to defend the right to the city, dignified housing, and adequate living spaces alongside low-income communities and social movements.

IED is hosting another edition of Design Degustação on March 16, 2019, from 2:00 PM to 4:00 PM, featuring workshops in Branding, Entertainment Design, Spatial Design, Product Design, Graphic Design, and Fashion Design. Starting at 4:30 PM, there will be a happy hour on the terrace, offering a spectacular view of Guanabara Bay. The participation fee is R$30 per workshop, which includes access to the discussions and the happy hour, as well as a discount on new enrollments made on the day of the event. For more information, visit the link https://iedr.io/degustacao20191

João Pessoa will host council members of the Institute of Architects of Brazil for its 156th national meeting. Architects and urban planners from across the country will gather from April 24 to 27 to address matters concerning the organization.

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Periferica is an international festival of urban regeneration that will take place in Mazara del Vallo, Sicily, from 1 to 10 August 2019. Every year, Periferica brings together associations, universities and businesses to rethink a disused area with students, creative people and inhabitants, through a program of workshops and events. Since 2013, more than 300 students from different parts of Europe have so far participated.

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Tamayouz Excellence Award invites students of architecture, urban design, urban planning, architecture technology and landscape design worldwide to register and submit their graduation projects. Winners will be selected by an independent, international jury that will review all entries.

Join the curator for an in-depth look at the exhibition The Reasons Offsite with a walkthrough of the design solutions in a 3D reality environment.

The Creative Urban Agriculture Workshop will investigate how design, driven by creativity and new technologies, can help boost participatory food production in urban environments in a proactive and productive manner across various scales. Our goal is to develop innovative prototypes for urban food production systems, sharing knowledge with citizens, architects, designers, and artists on how to build creative cultivation systems.

This Thursday, a new edition of the "Architecture and Women in Chile" panel will take place. This session will be held at the National Headquarters of the Colegio de Arquitectos de Chile. We will host four prominent architects who will share their work, career paths, and experience regarding city and gender issues. Don't miss it!

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New competition on Desall.com: Perletti and Desall invite you to design a new umbrella that stands out from the competition through its design and style, making it an easily recognizable product.

Slum eradication programs, highway construction, the creation of strategic towns, the redesign of public spaces, the building of stadiums, and the repurposing of cities for the "World Cup celebration": these are some of the territorial and urban projects carried out during the last military dictatorship in Argentina (1976-1983) that this exhibition examines. It is a spatial reorganization carried out at all scales and across all regions of the country, which directly impacted broad sectors of the population and permanently transformed Argentine society.

Arquideas is pleased to announce the launch of our new international architecture competition, the Hyde Park Music Pavilion (HPMP) London. The competition challenges participants to propose a cultural space dedicated to music, serving as an information hub for past and future concerts within Hyde Park. This cultural space should allow nature and the musical world to play a leading role.

YAC - Young Architects Competitions launches “Rwanda Chapel”, a competition of ideas aiming to design a church for a small religious community in Rukomo as a place of peace and conciliation where to celebrate or meditate regardless of disagreements and differences. A cash prize of € 15,000 will be awarded to winners selected by a well-renowned jury made of, among the others, Eduardo Souto de Moura, Peter Eisenman, Simon Frommenwiler (HHF), Tatiana Bilbao, Sol Madridejos (Sancho-Madridejos Architects), Sean Godsell, Jean Paul Uzabakiriho (MASS DESIGN Group), Andrea Boeri (Università di Bologna), Walter Mariotti (Editoriale Domus)

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