Future Cities

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Applications close
31 May 2012
Announced
27 August 2012
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EUR €1
Location
Italy, Italy
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Future Cities – Planning for the 90% is a call for visual projects in any media capable of transforming our urban spaces. Artists, photographers, designers and architects are invited to reflect on any issue facing people in private and public spaces around the world, such as housing, transport, environment, leisure, overcrowding, etc. proposing low cost, low tech solutions.

Artists, photographers, designers and architects anywhere in the world can participate without limits of age, sex, experience or profession.

Each project is presented online and can contain up to 10 images of artworks or photographs, videos or renderings – supported by a textual statement. Entry fee per project is 30 euro.

A shortlist of 10 projects, chosen by an international Selection Panel composed of distinguished architects, artists, university teachers and urban planners, will be exhibited from 27 August to 1 September 2012 at Magazzini del Sale, Punta della Dogana, Venice, Italy, during the XIII Architecture Biennial of Venice, and will be included in a catalogue.

The winner of the First Future Cities Award will be selected by members of the Selection Panel and announced at the exhibition opening on 27 August.

Future Cities - Planning for the 90% is a collaboration between Connecting Cultures and Celeste Network, in partnership with Domus Magazine, Bucintoro Cultura and Arte&Sale.

Prize in 2012
The jury will announce at the exhibition opening which three projects will receive the 1st Future Cities Award – Planning for the 90 per cent.

Judges
10 project will be selected for exhibition during the XIII Architecture Biennale in Venice by:
  • Fulvio Irace, architect, professor of History of Modern Architecture, Milan.
  • Joseph Grima, architect, editor of Domus Magazine.
  • Mary Jane Jacob, artistic director of Public Programmes and director of Exhibition studies at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago.
  • Richard Ingersoll, professor of Architecture at Syracuse University, Florence.
  • Anna Detheridge, president of Connecting Cultures, research agency, Milan.

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.

Entry Fee in 2012
30 Euros for each project (up to 10 images or videos can be uploaded as part of the project's explanatory material).


Summary
Applications close
31 May 2012
Exhibition dates
27 August - 1 September 2012
Finalists notified
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Prize genre
Architecture Urban Design
Location
Magazzini del Sale, Punta della Dogana, Venice, Italy
Italy
Italy
Prizes
EUR €1
Fees
Last updated
15 March 2012
Prior Winners
No prize winners information available