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Maj 14, 2013

COLDSCAPES: New Visions for Cold Weather Cities

Data końca rejestracji: 24/05/2013

Termin składania prac: 12/07/2013

Data zakończenia: 26/07/2013

Miasto: Cleveland

Kraj: USA

"COLDSCAPES: New Visions for Cold Weather Cities" is a multi-disciplinary design competition intended to reveal the often overlooked potential of cold climate cities. COLDSCAPES invites artists, architects, landscape architects, and urban designers to submit conceptual and built projects, of various scales, which reveal exciting opportunities for revitalizing cold climate urban places. The competition is organized by Kent State University's Cleveland Urban Design Collaborative (CUDC).

Intended Visions

COLDSCAPES aims to provoke a critical assessment of idealized representations from warmer seasons and challenge designers to engage more creatively with the unique conditions presented by winter. Submissions should explore new visions and emerging possibilities for enhancing livability in cold weather cities. We're interested in encouraging designers to inspire other designers to become cultural change agents, ultimately enabling cities to embrace their winter identities. Projects may fall within the domain of a particular discipline (architecture, public art, landscape architecture, urban design) or may cross over multiple disciplines. Entrants are encouraged to explore responses within a wide range of scales: city-scale urban form, mid-scale public spaces, or smaller street interventions. The competition does not specify a single site for submissions. Entrants may choose their own specific sites from around the world or submit proposed interventions that could be deployed in multiple geographic locations. The submission should provide an effective visual (and potentially aural, if using video) presentation of a built project or conceptual proposal that responds to critical design questions. What novel urban experiences can designers enable for winter city residents? How can the built environment become more responsive to changing outdoor conditions, enabling long-term resiliency? What visualization techniques can be employed to meaningfully communicate the ephemeral atmospheric qualities of winter environments? How can the urban environment respond to the needs of vulnerable populations in cold climates and increase opportunities for social inclusion?

Submission Format

In order to encourage a broad range of communication techniques, submissions may consist of still images or video. Various kinds of visualizations may be used, optimized for on-screen browsing, such as conceptual perspective renderings, explanatory diagrams, or photographs of built projects. A submission may include a maximum of three images or one video that clearly express the project's cold weather design intent. Each image must be in 16:9 aspect ratio (maximum size of 1024 x 768 pixels), in .jpg, .png, or .pdf format, with a maximum file size of 10 MB for each image. Video submissions must have a 16:9 aspect ratio and no more than 3 minutes in length. Videos must be submitted in .mov format and may be no larger than 100 MB. Submissions will be uploaded to the competition website as digital files. Mailed submissions will not be accepted. (A link to the full registration/submission page will be made available in mid-April 2013. See Competition Guidelines section below.) Creators of winning submissions and honorable mentions may be asked to submit higher resolution versions of their projects for inclusion in the online archive, physical exhibition, and print publication. Please do not include the entrant's name anywhere on the submission, since the submissions will be judged anonymously.

More: http://www.cudc.kent.edu/cold/index.php/competition/

Dodano: 14/05/2013

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