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| ONE PRIZE is an Annual Design and Science Award to Promote Green Design in Cities. |
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| Open International Design Competition for Building Resilient Cities "Now is the time to confront this challenge once and for all. Delay is no longer an option. Denial is no longer an acceptable response. The stakes are too high, the consequences, too serious. " Barack Obama CALL FOR SUBMISSIONS ONE Prize Award aims to explore the social, economic, and ecological possibilities of urban transformation. This year’s competition is set in the context of severe climate dynamism. How can cities adapt to the future challenges of extreme weather? The ONE Prize is a call to deploy sophisticated design to alleviate storm impact through various urban interventions such as: protective green spaces, barrier shorelines, alternative housing, waterproofing technology, and public space solutions. We wish to reinvigorate infrastructure and repurpose spaces towards environmental adaptation in order to put design in the service of the community. The ONE Prize seeks architects, landscape architects, urban designers, planners, engineers, scientists, artists, students and individuals of all backgrounds. How can urban ecosystems be enhanced to prevent flooding? What can restore Rockaway Beach social infrastructure and public space? When can the New Orleans community change to accept storms without losing character? What can protect Asian Coastal Cities against the unforeseen? Where can shorelines be storm surge barriers as well as interactive zones? How can storm proofing be seen as an opportunity to rethink the future of our cities? The ONE Prize Award is an international competition and it is open to everyone from professional to students. The teams can have one or more members. The proposals can be for real or speculative projects, at one or more actual sites. Projects can be located either in the U.S. or abroad, but should be applicable to the U.S. Proposals need not be generated exclusively for this competition, provided that they address the intent of the competition. |
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| PROJECT BACKGROUND Rising sea levels, flooding, and increased storm intensity no longer fall in the category of scientific theory; these are the defining characteristics of global climate change. The response to these cataclysmic events is similar around the world: repair, rebuild, and defend. This process may be adequate for a city’s physical infrastructure, but it leaves out the social, environmental and community structures. After Superstorm Sandy, power restoration was priority number one. The push to meet the other needs of the eight million people who lost power was far from urgent. Governments may elect to stormproof cities, protecting them from physical and economic damage. However, it is up to architects, engineers, ecologists, urban planners, and designers to stormproof cities with competent planning and design solutions that are ecologically sound and socially responsible. Change in climate requires societal, institutional and personal change. Partnerships are crucial to create this change; through collaboration between design professionals, scientists, and economists, as well as with the spectrum of public agents, advocates, and stakeholders. Science and technology have created the tools. Using scientifically derived design, investing in public knowledge, public space and supporting long-term growth of urban ecosystems is the way to build resilient cities. A stormproofed future is imperative for maintaining existence. This is a call to combine technological and quality-of-life design to assure a bright future for generations to come. PRIZES Since 2010, One Prize has awarded over $40,000 in in prize money. We continue to promote all the winning projects and explore the possibilities of implementation in New York City and around the world. 1st place US $5000 2nd place US $2000 3rd place US $1000 Press coverage by One Prize media sponsors. Presentation of Designs at Lectures and Exhibitions. Prominent Year-Long Exposure on the Competition Website. Early Registration by June 30, 2013 Registration and Submission by August 31, 2013 Register here ENTRY REQUIREMENTS Each entry should include: Two 24” by 36” color boards in horizontal format presented as a single digital file in PDF format. Total file size is 15 MB. These boards are the visual summary of the transformation each team envisions for its selected site. At a minimum, boards must include before and after photo and/or rendering; Sufficient visual information to clearly communicate your design intent; Adequate annotations to guide viewers through the visualization; An abstract statement of no more than 150 words. No identifying information should be included, as entries will be presented and judged anonymously. The presence of identifying information will be grounds for automatic disqualification. Upon receiving registration applications, Terreform ONE will issue each registrant a registration number. To identify submissions, each applicant will receive a registration number that must appear on the upper right corner of each board. The files must be named after the registration number. For example: 0101.pdf. Email the submissions to info@oneprize.org. LOGISTICS All submissions will be evaluated by the jury based on; core premise and objectives inventiveness design approach developed at a conceptual level opportunities for implementation All submissions are non returnable and all registration fees are non refundable. Decisions regarding finalists and winners are at the discretion of the selected jury and Terreform ONE. Terreform ONE retains the right to use any and all submitted work for press, publication, and exhibition purposes. Copyright to the work is retained by the original author teams. Email questions to: Maria Aiolova, LEED AP maria@terreform.org. Please join us on Facebook to receive regular answers update. |
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