2020

Urban Chair is a design competition with the aim of developing innovative and interactive prototypes for seaters/benches/modules that can be placed in a park, street, plaza or any other kind of outdoor socio-urban zone. Urban furniture is the link between a public space and the people encapsulated within. Community seaters are the catalyst for public interaction as they create a setting for sitting, resting and other similar activities. They are responsible for drawing people together and starting the process of interaction and dialogue.

The Collaboration in Training and Innovation for Growing, Evolving and Networked Societies (CITI-GENS) programme at Queen’s University Belfast is a MSCA COFUND Doctoral Training Programme.

In this Urban Manifesto Series, we will chronicle important ideas to improve urban living. We will talk to politicians, developers, architects, policy makers and activists from around the world to develop an urban manifesto for a happier, healthier and liveable urban future. This series is co-hosted by Lucy Bullivant, Founder of Urbanista.org & Prathima Manohar, Founder of think-do-tank The Urban Vision. 

This panel discussion asks "How will designers come to terms with keeping the "public" in public space against the counter-intuitive need for social distancing?"

Star Studio Designs is a young organization with disruptive concepts. We encourage the out of league, unique paradigms. Star Studio Designs is presenting ‘Disruptive Design Awards’ (DDA) to give voice to young architects and creative people from all over the world and discovering new talent. All you need is a design that has the potential to Disrupt the Architecture world.

The global pandemic has put us all in difficult situations. Wherever we are, in the last weeks we have faced challenges that we had not expected. The new virus is not only a threat to our health, but it is also deeply impacting the way we work, learn and go about our lives.

After the crisis that has just gone through the world, several questions will have to be asked of decision-makers, in particular the conditions of confinement in very narrow dwellings and devoid of living spaces or confinements elsewhere.

The Arc. Eddy Eguavoen Foundation is a nonprofit organization that aims to build sustainable housing for communities in need across Nigeria. The foundation was officially announced on January 11th 2020, one year after the passing of Arc. Eddy Eguavoen, an accomplished Nigerian Architect.

Time moves slowly in architecture. While the technological, financial, transport, and commercial industries of the world evolve at an unprecedented, exponential rate, the evolution of cities themselves is not keeping pace. While everyday commodities, from phones to cars to banking systems, change before our eyes, we continue to live and work in buildings designed for a past era, and depend on urban infrastructures long past their capacities.

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Mass Collective features six photographers in a virtual reality gallery. They will be showing photographic work documenting the British built environment. For each weekly gallery the photographers will present their work at opening night, which will be open for the public to attend in the virtual gallery space, and also streamed to Youtube in collaboration with architectural photography festival Zoomed In. The space will remain accessible night and day to be explored with your personal avatar according to the following schedule:

The Estonian Association of Architects (EAA) has joined forces with the Estonian Centre for Architecture (ECA) and Irish Architecture Foundation (IAF) to promote an international Open Call to select a curatorial team for Wood Works— a new exhibition programme taking place between Ireland and Estonia in 2020—2021.