This year Metropolis Magazine is taking its cues from the headlines. Rising energy costs is the focus of the worldwide competition, which is open to all designers in practice for 10 years or less, as well as to students.
The magazine seeks entries at all scales of design: urban, landscape, building, interior, object, communication-and for every aspect of the man-made environment.
Details: www.metropolismag.com/nextgen
2009 Metropolis Next Generation® Design Competition
Launched: 23 September 2008
Prize: Winning Design Will Be Awarded $10,000
Entry Deadline: 30 January 2009
Challenge:
Metropolis magazine (Based in New York, US) challenges young designers to apply their innovative talents to our energy addiction and rethink current models of life and work in the 20th-century.
Competition Specifications:
This year Metropolis is taking its cues from the headlines. Rising energy costs is the focus of the worldwide competition, which is open to all designers in practice for 10 years or less, as well as to students. The magazine seeks entries at all scales of design-urban, landscape, building, interior, object, communication-and for every aspect of the man-made environment.
The magazine asks designers to challenge our current patterns of living and working, and come up with ways to reconnect these daily human functions while minimizing fossil-fuel usage.
"We hope to see intelligent and beautiful ideas, at all scales, that bring out the humanist tendencies of young designers everywhere," notes editor in chief Susan S. Szenasy. "This socially and environmentally conscious generation is looking for ways to connect with the large issues of our time, and Next Generation® offers them that opportunity. We know that designers are great at fixing things, that they're masters of creating elegant, sustainable, and humane solutions to real problems."
Who can participate:
The competition is open to all designers in practice for 10 years or less, as well as to students.
Prize:
The Metropolis Next Generation® Prize is a $10,000 award to one winner (an individual or team). Both the winner and up to 15 runners-up receive invaluable publicity, which has helped many projects leap from the computer to implementation and production. There will also be a gala presentation to honour The 2009 winner and runners-up next spring.
Project Scope:
The breadth of proposals in the past have included: building projects, urban-planning and community-building schemes, responsive interior environments, population pressure issues, new materials, ergonomics, product design, social and housing solutions, environmental management, water disinfection and transport, waste disposal in crisis situations, and so on.
Competition Jury:
An inspiring group of design professionals will judge this year's competition, including Carlton Brown, COO, Full Spectrum NY; Valerie Fletcher, executive director, Institute for Human Centered Design; Eileen Jones, AIGA, LEED AP, principal, Perkins + Will; Alexandros E. Washburn, AIA, chief urban designer, NYC Department of City Planning; Philip White, principal, Orb Analysis for Design, with Susan S. Szenasy facilitating.
Visit www.metropolismag.com/nextgen for entry details, and watch for ongoing updates from Metropolis magazine on this important competition.
About Metropolis:
Professionals in all areas of design-architecture, interior design, landscape architecture, technology, industrial design, and graphic design-rely on Metropolis magazine each month for dynamic journalism that spans the gamut of their profession. The Metropolis Tour, hosted by more than 40 leading architecture and design firms in North America since 2007, explores today's increasingly complex design issues with lessons of regional architecture and modern preservation, innovation and research in design, and has featured the Metropolis-produced films Site Specific: The Legacy of Regional Modernism, and Brilliant Simplicity. Metropolis's conferences include Tropical Green, in Miami, and the Metropolis Design Entrepreneurs Conference, held each year at the International Contemporary Furniture Fair® (ICFF®), in New York, among others. Visit metropolismag.com to subscribe to the magazine and access a wealth of continually updated content and professional design resources.
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