The Architecture & Design Film Festival (ADFF) is America’s largest film festival devoted to the creative spirit of architecture and design. Our curated films and panel discussions provide unique perspectives about the process behind architectural, graphic, and product design, urban and environmental issues, architectural photography, historic preservation, and much more. Our goal is to identify films with impassioned, human stories that appeal to a sophisticated design audience and those with a general interest in architecture and design.
Ministry of Ecology, Spatial planning and Urbanism of Montenegro announced an International Competition for a Conceptual Architectural Design of the Emergency Centre within the Complex of the Clinical Centre of Montenegro.
Introduction The Experiential Architecture Design Competition challenges participants to create an innovative and immersive architectural design that provides a unique and sensorial experience of blindness for all visitors. The goal is to design an experiential design that allows sighted individuals to perceive and understand the world through the perspective of blindness, fostering empathy, awareness, and a deeper appreciation for the human experience.
Introduction Welcome to the Architecture Photography Competition! In this edition, we invite photographers to explore the captivating theme of "Urban Jungle." As cities continue to expand and evolve, the interaction between architecture and nature becomes a fascinating subject. This competition aims to showcase the harmonious coexistence or striking contrast between the man-made structures and the natural elements within urban environments. We encourage you to capture the essence of this captivating relationship through your lens.
ECHO TOMORROW FIELD – Food and Art stems from three themes. 1. Artworks inspired by the history of Tango, a region that once produced cinnabar, 2. Attempts to innovate with rich local ingredients and revive the textile industry, 3. Art rooted in the land through collaboration with the next generation. The venues will be in Tango and Kinosaki.
Volume Zero invites you to participate in The Dwelling 2023 Architecture Competition challenging the conventions of the present-day Archetype of an Urban Home and call for a sense of living based on community spirit.
Since the start of time, a HOME has continued to be an entity that is intimate to all living beings on the planet. A space that not only provides a physical shelter for humans and everything they hold dear but also shapes their daily lives. A home forms a distinct bond with its users and the environment that it sits in defining both personal and social interactions.
The contest is open to professionals and students from the disciplines of architecture, landscape architecture, design, and any related field, of legal age from every country in the world, and has two participation options:
COMPETITION FORMAT: Warming Huts + Art Installation Three teams will be selected as winners of the WARMING HUTS COMPETITION: Arts + Architecture Competition on Ice from submissions of designs for a warming hut or art installation. Winning entries will be placed along the Nestaweya River Trail located on the Assiniboine and Red rivers in Winnipeg, Manitoba. A jury will select the winning designs based on their creativity in use of materials, providing shelter, poetics of assembly and form, integration with the landscape, and ease of construction.
Join the ranks of the bold and creative in the 3rd International Design Competition: Reimagining Cities towards Carbon Neutrality. Building on the success of previous years, this competition seeks out the best and brightest minds to tackle one of the greatest challenges of our time. This is the challenge for worldwide architecture and urban design university students to propose a brilliant idea to solve the real problem of an area.
The LA+ EXOTIQUE design ideas competition asks entrants to design the forecourt of the Museum of Natural History in Paris. The museum was founded in 1793 during the French Revolution, though the site had been used as a royal garden of medicinal plants since 1635. The site is located on the left bank of the River Seine and sits within the Jardins des Plantes, which are 28-hectare grounds that include exterior gardens and a zoo (Ménagerie), with five galleries in the museum precinct: Gallery of Evolution, Gallery of Mineralogy and Geology, Gallery of Botany, Gallery of Paleontology and Comparative Anatomy, and Large Greenhouses (Grandes Serres). All of these could be considered inspiration for your design. The Museum is not just a collection of fossils, it is an active research institution studying the evolution of life on this planet, and its occupants, both human and nonhuman.
Taking place across the city of Toronto January 19-28, 2024, the annual DesignTO (https://designto.org/) Festival is a city-wide celebration of design's role in creating a sustainable, just, and joyful world. Featuring a wide range of events, exhibitions, and installations, the Festival showcases the best of local and international design. If you're interested in contributing an Independent Project (https://designto.org/independent-projects-call/), participating as a Host Venue, or submitting to one of the DesignTO curated projects, now's your chance!
Sonya Clark (American, born 1967), The Beaded Prayers Project , 1998 – ongoing, fabric, beads, and thread, 120 panels, 2 × 2 feet each, collection of the artist. Installation view at Newark Museum of Art
For nearly 30 years, fiber artist Sonya Clark’s work has explored the histories and legacies of racism and oppression in America and the potential of a collective approach to questions of equality for the future. “We Are Each Other” will be the first survey of the artist’s work in Atlanta, New York City and Detroit and will bring together the artist’s largest, community-centered and participatory projects, which will be activated with each city’s respective communities. The exhibition will feature projects including the additive, room-sized installation “The Beaded Prayers Project” (1998-ongoing), inspired by African amulet traditions; “The Hair Craft Project” (2014), which pairs photography and fiber art, documenting the work of Black hairdressers; and the “Monumental Cloth” series (2019), which recreates at massive scale the flag of truce used to help broker the end of the Civil War. In her work, she intertwines craft and community and incorporates handwork in her projects to promote new collective encounters across racial, gender and socioeconomic lines and to address difficult questions of exclusion in American society, as part of her commitment to one of the most pressing issues of our day — equality and the difficult work we all must do to realize it. This exhibition is co-organized by the High Museum of Art, Atlanta, the Museum of Arts and Design and Cranbrook Art Museum
This year, designaddvance calls for ideas that reimagine railway stations in X, Y and Z cities beyond being just Transit Hubs and more as nodes of urban activity. To reform and boost the existing spatial and visual identity of a railway station into that of an urban centre—with a mix of uses such as healthcare, commerce, education, leisure, business, entertainment and so on—reshaping the interaction of the users with the place.
