Public Design Festival - International Competition

Milan, April 18-26 2009

International call for entries

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 on April 18-26 2009.

Theme of the Competition

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

The projects presented will have to deal with the theme of public spaces following to the guide lines 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

Eligibility Criteria

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

Terms of Participation

The call for entries will be open from November 15th 2008 to February 28th 2009. To participate you have to fill in the online form at www.publicdesignfestival.org providing your personal information, a c.v., a short description of the project and its aims, project rendering (a maximum of three A4 designs), and an estimate of the budget needed for the realization and management of the project. Each competitor can send up to three projects. All documents will be sent in pdf, word or zip format; videos will have to be in mov, avi or flv format; files will be accepted up to 8MB each.

Selection

Among all submitted projects esterni will select 10 projects to carry out in Milan during the Public Design Festival. Realization and management expenses will be covered by the festival up to a maximum of 1,800€ (VAT included).

We will favour:
  • self-financed projects
  • public interactive projects
  • projects using recycled materials or everyday materials in a creative and innovative way.
The environmental impact of the project will play a role during the selection phase. The results will be published by March 15th 2009 on our website www.publicdesignfestival.org; winners will be informed directly by e-mail or phone.

Award

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.

Audience Award

During their presentation in Milan, festival-goers will have the chance to vote for the ten projects selected at publicdesignfestival.org.



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For Further Information

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