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Apply Today! BioDesign Summer Lab NYC

BioDesign Summer Lab NYC Applications Due May 31! 

ONE LAB 2011 Summer Lab for students, architects, scientists, artists, and individuals of all backgrounds to explore design with various living matter including live tissues, bacteria, tree grafting, fungi growth control and parametric scripting. The top three applicants, selected by the admission committee, will receive full scholarships. Limited grants and work-study opportunities are also available. ONE Lab is designed for students who wish to engage with the crossover of design and science. The lab concentrates on recent advances in the biotechnology and computation, both in theory and practice.

ONE Lab offers a new means of design inquiry where students will actively use the tools and technologies of live sciences . The participants will learn the processes of biotechnology (including technologies such as genetic engineering, tissue culture, and cloning), growing materials, grafting trees and plants, scripting and computational modeling for controlled growth. Students will have access to bio laboratories, techniques and expertise.

This summer approximately 40 researchers will gather in New York City for 3 weeks of intense creative and scientific exploration. TerreLab provides a unique opportunity for students to learn from internationally recognized scientists: Dr. Oliver Medvedik; Dr. Ellen Jorgenson; Dr. Dickson D. Despommier and renown designers and artists: Vito Acconnci, Natalie Jeremijenko, Marc Forens and many more. The Lab consists of a Seminar Week (guest lectures from international scholars and designers) and Workshop Weeks where the participant will chose a series of day-long workshops. All classes are beginner level and no previous knowledge or experience is required.

Type:
Open

Registration Deadline
05/31/2011

Submission Deadline
05/31/2011

Open To
All

Entry Fee
None

Jury
Maria Aiolova, LEED AP, Director of ONE Lab,

Carlos Roberto Barrios

Alexander J. Felson

Nurhan Gokturk,

Mitchell Joachim

David Maestres,

Walter Meyer

Jason Vigneri-Beane

Contact
Maria Aiolova, LEED AP
Address
Terreform ONE + Planetary ONE, 33 Flatbush Avenue, 7th Floor Brooklyn, NY 11217

Email
Competition E-Mail

Web Site
Competition Web Site

Phone
917.921.0446

 

 

6th Belgrade Design Week

23rd – 29th May 2011

More than 50 designers from all over the world will be presenting their works to the public during the 6-day festival, among them the British and Israeli/French designers Tom Dixon and Arik Levy whose works are exhibited in museums around the world.

lic cinema suckerPUNCH competition

this open international design ideas competition challenges entrants to create a large scale center to celebrate cinema. movie theaters are currently fighting for a dwindling audience that has been seduced by the access to films at home and online, as well as by advances in television screens and home projection.

2011 Hot Dog Stand Fellowship

Zog’s Dogs (www.zogs-dogs.com), located in Downtown San Francisco, is accepting applications for the 2nd annual artistic fellowship at their restaurant. Zog’s Dogs is a strong supporter of artistic endeavors, and creative proposals that reimagine the hot dog, the restaurant experience, and food in general, are encouraged. Proposals that utilize the company website, or the internet medium in general, are also encouraged.

UNIVERSAL DESIGN COMPETITION

The AIA Young Architects Forum (YAF) and the AIA Committee on Design (COD) invites architects, students, and allied design professionals to submit sketches to the international 2011 YAF/COD Ideas Competition.

In this unique sketch competition, submitters are asked to explore the concept of Universal Design as well as their overlap with values of social and environmental sustainability.

Winners will be announced and will have their work exhibited at the American Institute of Architects (AIA) 2011 National Convention and Design Exposition in New Orleans, Louisiana, May 12-14, 2011. Selected entries will be displayed on the AIA website.

• For Complete Submission Details, Download the 2011 Ideas Competition Call for Entries (PDF)

• View the complete Submission Site Walk Through (PDF)

• Visit the Submission Site to Submit Now!

Find more info on:  http://www.aia.org/professionals/groups/yaf/AIAB086876

Public Design Festival 2011, Milano - Call for projects

Call for projects for Public Design Festival edition 2011 (deadline January, 31st)

We call young designers, architects and project makers from all over the world to submit ideas, projects, solutions and services to work on public space in our city.

After two editions of Duepercinque Competition, the call for projects for Public Design Festival changes its structure. We are not asking for parking lot- size projects anymore (2x5mt), we are looking for site specific projects, to distribute all over the city of Milan, from the city centre to the suburbs. Services, urban furniture and solutions for a better quality urban living. We are looking for projects that may last after the event.

We will concentrate on four main areas of town that we wish to shape with public interventions:

• in Garibaldi, the big empty space of Cavalcavia Bussa
• in Lambrate the unfriendly places near the station and the biggest sheltered open space in town, under the bridge of the ring road in Via Rubattino
• in Porta Romana the open spaces of Cascina Cuccagna, a farmstead from the 18th century in the city centre of Milan
• the square in front of Cadorna Railway Station, heart of the city, place where the audience of Salone del Mobile can meet the people of Milan

Read the call for projects
Read the description of the places

 

Stockholm Furniture Fair 2011

 

bring a design souvenir back from stockholm!

for the 3rd time in stockholm - designboom will host a group exhibition of 30 international design 
professionals from around the world as part of the cultural program of the stockholm furniture fair.

in designboom's unique and world famous market exhibitions, visitors are not only able to meet 
the young avant-garde designers and become familiar with their work but also buy self-produced 
or limited edition pieces directly from the designers. profits through sales can be used towards 
partially covering any travel costs.

over the intense days of exhibiting and socializing, the designers have the chance to discuss their work 
with other like-minded professionals, customers, manufacturers, distributors, press and museum curators - 
verifying their designs and their packaging credentials.

after tokyo, new york, sydney, seoul, melbourne, saint-etienne, valencia, copenhagen, ...
this unique formula now sees its 22nd edition, since our very first mart in new york in 2005.

be part of it....

http://www.designboom.com/weblog/cat/8/view/12184/designboom-mart-stockholm-2011-call-for-participation.html

 

 

A Room for London - competition

A new project by Living Architecture and Artangel in association with the Southbank Centre and the London 2012 Festival.

At the beginning of the Olympic year of 2012, London will witness the inauguration of what will become one of its smallest yet most original and talked-about new temporary buildings: A Room for London.

The room will sit on top of the Queen Elizabeth Hall roof at the Southbank Centre in London and will allow up to two guests at a time a chance to spend a unique night in an exemplary work of art and architecture overlooking the British capital.

This one-bedroom temporary home/hotel is being commissioned by Living Architecture and Artangel, two of Britain's leading cultural organisations. We are inviting architects, as well as architects working with artists and/or engineers and designers, from across the world to propose their designs.

Notes for Submissions

• Submissions should be in PDF format and no more than 5 A4 pages. Entries any longer than this will automatically be discounted.
• The deadline for submissions is midnight on 30th November 2010.
• Submissions must include the following:
• Contact details (name, email address, phone number).
• A short CV of the participant (s) indicating relevant past experience, especially with demountable structures.
• Visual material that gives as clear an idea as possible of how the structure will look from close-up (internally and externally), and how it will sit in the broader landscape.
• Evidence of how the Room will comply with the load requirements outlined in the technical specification.
• Submissions must be made by fully-qualified architects (registered in your country of residence, please provide evidence) or established architectural firms; in the case of architects collaborating on the scheme with artists/engineers/designers, the scheme should be submitted by the architects involved.
• All applicants must have full professional indemnity insurance, covering the UK (please provide confirmation of this).
• Submissions should be emailed to [email protected] 

http://www.living-architecture.co.uk/aroomforlondon

 

Architecture for rent

On a rainy day, thinking about a holiday...

Living Architecture is a social enterprise dedicated to the promotion and enjoyment of world-class modern architecture. We have asked a series of great architects to design houses for us around Britain and are making these available to rent for holidays all year round.

Living Architecture offers you a chance to rent houses for a holiday designed by some of the most talented architects at work today, and set in some of the most stunning locations in Britain. We have commissioned houses by Peter Zumthor, Michael & Patty Hopkins, NORD, Jarmund/Vigsnæs Architects & MVRDV.

http://www.living-architecture.co.uk/

Congratulations Thomas Pucher!

The Sinfonia Varsovia Orchestra announced a two-stage architectural competition for a conceptual design of the main municipal concert hall for 1800 seats as well as the adaptation of the ex-Veterinary Institute's historical buildings located at Grochowska Street in Warsaw.