Future Cities: Planning for the 90 per cent is an invitation to take a closer look at the real city wherever you happen to be, making time to think about the very important improvements that can be made by creative and thoughtful solutions to everyday problems. The first ten projects selected will be featured in an exhibition in Venice during the 13th Venice Architecture Biennale, 27 August - 1 September 2012 at Magazzini del Sale, Punta della Dogana. The project designed and curated by Connecting Cultures and is a collaboration between Connecting Cultures and Celeste Network's 1st Future Cities Award.
During the exhibition Planning for the 90 per cent an international round table will be organized with the participation of artists, architects, designers and urban planners.
Below are the general guidelines for the competition:
Theme
Competition of ideas open to design-related professionals, artists and non-professionals, multidisciplinary teams for low cost, low tech interventions designed to confront critical issues regarding public space and infrastructure in specific contexts.
Goal of Award
The competition is designed to give visibility to "decent architecture", to micro-urban interventions in any city in the world planned to respond to a demand or explicit need of a population or community, whether in poor areas of western cities, or in the shanty towns of Africa, Asia or Latin America. Candidates are required to select a particular local issue or problem to which low cost, low tech responses are appropriate through micro-urban interventions for the regeneration of public space.
The project may address one or more of the following needs:
- practical every day problems of survival and or sanitation
- the removal of physical, social or symbolic barriers
- mobility and communication across the city
- opportunities for social inclusion/education or aggregation at a local level
- the re-appropriation of public space favouring new connections and new uses
- innovative ideas in reinterpreting public space as place
- issues limiting the quality of life of the inhabitants of a specific area
Projects can be presented in the form of installations utilizing any media such as photography, video, other media, documentary materials; services for the city; urban communication projects; urban furniture.
Evaluation criteria
- Community impact: the project should promote an active and open design community process that engage people and collaborate with local stakeholders.
- Economic sustainability: the project submitted should be sustainable from the point of view of the local economy and propose creative low budget material solutions.
- Design quality: innovative solutions favouring new connections, new uses, promoting basic human rights, dignity and social inclusion.
Who can Submit?
Future Cities is an international call for projects, in which artists, designers, architects, urban planners and multidisciplinary teams from anywhere in the world can participate without limits of age, sex or profession.
Projects will be presented in the Magazzini del Sale - Punta della Dogana, Venice, from 27 August to 1 September 2012 during the 13th Architecture Biennale in Venice.
Online submission
http://celesteprize.com/futurecities/
Image: Giulia Ticozzi, Milano e Oltre 2011 project, by Connecting Cultures