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BUYING – Alternative Designs for Shops

Submission: April 30, 2019
Registration: April 27, 2019
Language: English
Location: Concept
Prizes: Please see details below
Type: Open

 

The aim of the “Buying” competition is to develop design proposals for the shop typology, intended as a space – either material or immaterial – where goods or services are available to the public.

Additional Contest Information:
The participants are asked to create innovative and unconventional projects on this theme, questioning the very basis of the notion of the shop. In recent years, a series of new initiatives have emerged in relation to the shopping experience.

PRIZES

WE DO NOT BELIEVE IN ONE WINNER
Non architecture competitions wants to be unconventional also in the way it rewards its participants. The winners will be in fact three, all equally important. In addition 9 honourable mentions will be awarded. Each one of the 3 jury members will select one winner and four honourable mentions.

The prizes are the following:

-WINNERS (3 Prizes)
1.000 euros
Publication in the Non Architecture Competitions books
Publication on the Non Architecture Competitions website
Reviews in digital magazines and several architecture blogs
3 Books by DOM Publisher

-HONOURABLE MENTIONS (9 Prizes)
Publication in the Non Architecture Competitions book
Publication on the Non Architecture Competitions website
Reviews in digital magazines and several architecture blogs

-FINALISTS (38 Prizes)
Publication in the Non Architecture Competitions book
Publication on the Non Architecture Competitions website

JURORS&CALENDARS

Carlo Ratti – Director of the MIT Senseable City Lab Founder and Director of Carlo Ratti Associati
Seetal Solanki – Director and Founder of materials research design studio Ma-tt-er and Visiting Tutor on the Interior Design programme at the Royal College of Art
Mariabruna Fabrizi and Fosco Lucarelli – Founders of MICROCITIES and Socks-studio (to be confirmed)

1–15 February 2019 – Special Registration (30 €) period
16 February -15 March 2019 – Early Registration (45 €) period
16 March -15 April 2019 – Regular Registration (60 €) period
16 – 27 April 2019 – Late Registration (75 €) period
15 April 2019 – Submission opened on our website
30 April 2019 – Submission Deadline (23.59 GMT+2)
21-26 May 2019 – Winners announcement
21 May 2019 – Call for Materials for the “Buying – Non Architectural Shops” book starts
21 June 2019 – Call for Materials for the “Buying – Non Architectural Shops” book ends
1 September 2019 – The “Buying – Non Architectural Shops” book is available

Go to the competition’s website