SUITE NY is carring these awesomely sleek Zeitraum beds, made from eco-friendly materials. The fact that they look like they are floating is pretty awesome, too.
Thursday, March 26
GWIIN
Global Women Inventors & Innovators Network (GWIIN)
a subsidiary of the Professional Family Woman's Network Ltd based in the United Kingdom, is a global network which aims to increase the number of innovative women embracing enterprise.
We work with Government departments, leading industry experts, voluntary organisations, enterprises and educational institutions.
The goal is simply to find effective ways of bringing support, assistance, tools, advice and information to assist women in achieving significant growth in their businesses.
Friday, March 20
2009 Open Architecture Challenge: Classroom
Teachers and students know what makes a classroom work. We're inviting you to design the classroom of the future together.
According to the World Bank, educating all children worldwide will require the construction of 10 million new classrooms in more than 100 countries by 2015. At the same time, millions of existing classrooms are in serious need of repair and refurbishment.
Let's get started.
We are inviting you, teachers, students, architects and designers, to work together to design the classroom of the future for a school of your choosing. Your design should address the unique challenges your school faces in trying to provide smart, safe and sustainable learning spaces. Students and teachers, here's your chance to tell the world what you need to make your classroom more effective. Architects and designers, you'll work one-on-one with students to translate those needs into better classroom design.
- Share your design expertise and inspire school students to re-imagine their classroom
- Help students learn about the built environment using a companion design curriculum
- Become an advocate for better classroom design in your community
Jurors currently includes Dave Eggers, Michelle Kaufmann, Hilary Cottam, Kigge Hvid and others. More will be added over the course of the registration period.
If your design wins, your school will receive up to $50,000 in funding for classroom construction and upgrading. You will receive a grant of $5,000 to help them do it.
http://www.openarchitecturenetwork.org/competitions/challenge/2009
Re:Vision DALLAS
Re:Vision is a revolutionary initiative to create the prototype for an innovative, sustainable urban community. At the heart of the process is a series of contests generating visionary ideas for what can and should be in the design about urban space.
The City of Dallas and Urban Re:Vision present Re:Vision DALLAS in partnership with Central Dallas CDC and BC Workshop.
What if everything we knew and believed about design needed to change? What if we need to change along with it?
It’s a provocative idea, but one Re:Vision has been delving into for the past two years. Our series of competitions have searched for ideas and plans that can redefine urban space in a restorative way. We have focused on the city block because it is a microcosm of systems and relationships, and requires an integration and imagination that transcends beyond a single building.
The challenges—and opportunities—on this scale are incredible. And we’re looking for visionary thinking to take them on.
Re:Vision Dallas is a chance to propel design beyond the typical, beyond the norm and to lay the foundation for a future of sustainable development we all hope is inevitable. It’s a chance to create a block that does no harm, to people or place. A chance to encourage and value relationships, while fostering respect for nature and our neighbors, privacy and resources, economy and consumption. It’s a chance to change how we live and connect, how we interact and collaborate—how we live in a space throughout our life and the lifecycle of the space.
Friday, March 13
Prove A Point
The Omrania l CSBE Student Award for Excellence in Architectural Design . Prove A Point
After having had a successful launch in 2008, Omrania and Associates (O&A) and the Center for the Study of the Built Environment (CSBE) have expanded the Student Award for Excellence in Architectural Design beyond the boundaries of Jordan by widening eligibility to include students from all Arab countries. The award, which is given to the most outstanding submitted architectural graduation projects, aims at recognizing quality in the teaching of architecture in the Arab world, and at encouraging students in Arab architectural schools to excel in their design performance.
The monetary value of the award’s prizes also have been increased and will consist of the following:
First Prize of 3500 USD
Second Prize of 2500 USD
Third Prize of 1500 USD
Eligibility
Eligibility for the award will be restricted to final-year students for a Bachelor’s Degree in Architecture or Architectural Engineering at universities located in countries belonging to the Arab League. Applicants should have successfully completed and defended their final-year architectural design graduation project before the award’s submission deadline.
Additional Information
Details regarding submission format, submission dates, jury members, etc. will be published on this website in March 2009.
Shatana International Artist Workshop 3
Shatana International Artist Workshop 3, Jordan
is inviting applications for its 2-week workshop residency program in Shatana, Jordan from the 3rd until the 17th of July 2009. Shatana workshop is part of the Triangle Arts Network following the model of workshops organized by artists for artists.
Submissions Deadline: 30th of March, 2009
For more information:
DAMAS . a new brand 4 the old town
Presentation at Kozah Art Gallery
The Students will present their urban design projects in Damascus. Kozah Art Gallery is a decent place to present these students’ projects on new housing for the old city with a UNESCO world heritage batch. The show starts at 20h00. We are looking forward to a vivid discussion. We are providing something to drink and to eat and a lot of impressions.
You can read the exact task at ‘the challenge‘.
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