HEALING – Alternative Designs for Quarantine Cities , Rom / Italien

HEALING – Alternative Designs for Quarantine Cities

Organizers
Non Architecture Competitions
www.nonarchitecture.eu

Summary
Our world is changing fast, while ambitions and challenges match in importance. In this context, design can play a huge role. How do we imagine the world to be? What range of possibilities we haven’t discovered yet? What’s a Non-Architecture for a World in crisis? In 2020 we started the second phase of competitions to address the issues of tomorrow.

In line with our style we propose 9+1 themes – ten critical topics to work on, but this time they come with a framework to make sure that each theme is explored from different design angles. Rather than a program, a research ecosystem composed of various competitions running in parallel and exploring the same theme from different perspectives.

Our exploration journey will start from a theme zero, a special step in our research program: Pandemic Society.

Brief in short
In this competition, we ask you come up with visionary concepts for alternative urban life in relation to the COVID-19 emergency – Only 3 drawings, absolute freedom of scale, site or program. You are asked to reimagine urban life through a variety of creative design concepts and ideas.

Cities have historically been hubs for ideas, commerce, culture, science, productivity, social connections, and much more. While being the core of global development, they have faced considerable challenges, becoming the main stage to experience tangible consequences of our society’s biggest criticalities, like scarcity of resources, climate change, natural disasters, health, ecosystems loss, epidemics, education, crime, and poverty.

Their central role in human civilization is expected to gain further relevance since the United Nations predicts that by 2050 two thirds of the world population will be living in urban areas. What kind of role can we play as designers in reimagining urban life? How can we produce new inspiring visions to trigger a discussion around alternative models of urban living?

HEALING –Alternative Designs for Quarantine Cities aims to answer those questions with a particular focus on the current emergency related to the COVID-19 outbreak.

Competition Type
Open ideas competition

Admission Area
International

Eligibility
Non Architecture Competitions are open to all human beings, from every age and cultural background, working in groups or individually. Teams can be formed by a maximum number of 5 people. The registration fee is paid per team, regardless of how many members form it. Personal information of all the team members can be uploaded during the submission procedure of the final drawing.

Schedule
1 – 17 May 2020 - Special registration period (40 €) or (30€)
18 May – 14 June 2020 - Early registration period (55 €)
15 June – 18 July 2020 - Regular registration period (70 €)
19 July – 16 August 2020 - Late registration period (85 €)
17 – 22 August 2020 - Last-minute registration (100 €)
10 August 2020- Submission opens on our website
22 August 2020, 23.59 PM - Submission closes
21 – 27 September 2020 - Winner announcement

The timing always refers to Central European Time (CET)

Jury
The jury members are the following:
Maura Ambrosiano – Associate Partner at Foster & Partners
Enno Zuidema – Director and Urban Planner at MVRDV

Prizes
Non Architecture Competitions will award two winners, selected by the jurors individually, and 6 honorable mentions.

WINNERS (2 Prizes)
- 1.000 euros worth in gift cards from one of the major online shops chosen by the winner.
- Publication in the Non Architecture Competitions book and website.
- Reviews in digital magazines and several architecture blogs.

HONORABLE MENTIONS (6 Prizes)
- Publication in the Non Architecture Competitions book and website.
- Reviews in digital magazines and several architecture blogs.

FINALISTS (42 Prizes)
- Publication in the Non Architecture Competitions Journal.

SPECIAL PRIZE
- The organization might establish additional special prizes and awards during the competition development and in the evaluation phase.

More information and documents at
www.nonarchitecture.eu/healing