CALL FOR ENTRIES


Deadline: 13 January 2009

After 13 years of actions, projects, ideas, and concrete proposals for public spaces - and after the experience gathered with its public design project - esterni presents the first edition of its Public Design Festival: a festival aimed in the first place for designers and architects, but also for public administrators, companies, and common citizens to focus on public spaces, and on how they are conceived and designed, or, on the contrary, neglected.

On the occasion of the first edition of its Public Design Festival, esterni announces an international call for entries to search for ideas and projects for public spaces; among all submissions, 10 projects will be selected, carried out and presented during the festival, that will take place in Milan from 18 April - 2 6 April 2009.

The competition consists of the planning of an intervention on an urban parking area (2x5m). Different kinds of projects may be presented - i.e. installations, communication projects, community services, actions, and urban furniture items.

The projects presented will have to deal with the theme of public spaces following to the guidelines listed below.

winning back public space

public spaces as places where people meet, socialize, interact, integrate, and experiment

public spaces as a place where people develop a feeling of belonging to a community or to a group

the development of new solutions - creative, temporary, or experimental solutions - to the problems of the city

the development of new ways to use public spaces

competitors must be artists or design, architecture, industrial design, graphic design, or illustration students and professionals. Both individuals and groups will be accepted.

3,000 € (not inclusive of taxes) and the full amount of production expenses will be assigned to one of the ten projects selected. The composition of the jury that will choose the winning project among the ten selected by esterni is about to be defined.


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