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Climate of Dissent - PROTEST DESIGN CHALLENGE

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Climate of Dissent - PROTEST DESIGN CHALLENGE
Architecture and Urban planning
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Alone or as a team (10 max)
Alone or as a team (10 max)
Anyone
No age limit
Registration fees
$25 - $50
All countries
All countries
English

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studio BLEAK
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Studio BLEAK is a partnership of concerned designers, architects, activists, and social justice communities, focused on deepening architecture and design's relationship to social and environmental justice. We think of design in terms of its constraints and embrace our limitations in an opportunistic light. Balancing our self criticism with persistent optimism, we hope to identify new roles for design and join existing efforts to grow social equity. ​Our vision is that of comprehensive reorganization of the global systems that exploit the people and degrade the planet. We believe that architects can do more to serve this cause and, by partnering with activism, can push for real, effective change.​ We reject the apparent inevitability of architecture serving monetary systems of injustice, and we believe in the possibility for designers to better support those who are disenfranchised. The studio is the brainchild of years of conversation, shared sentiments and unchanneled angst between Brandon Youndt, Elliott Lamborn and Laura Schmitt-Hall. As young architectural designers exploring new ways of engaging in the discourse, they found opportunity within social justice movements, sharing sentiments of designing a more just world. BLEAK was founded to build partnerships between the design we love and the justice we crave. The studio operates out of Los Angeles and maintains partnerships in Philadelphia and Brooklyn within communities of design and activism.

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Climate change is here.

Temperature increases have led to droughts, famine, floods, displacement of thousands of people, and the rapid decline of many ecosystems.

Business as usual will not solve it.

Current economic and political forces are in direct opposition with the solutions to climate change.

Business as usual must be disrupted.

By holding politicians, investors, and business leaders accountable for their climate-wrecking practices, acts of dissent can save the planet from climate catastrophe.

We can design that disruption.

Climate of Dissent is a climate change protest design competition.


For dissent to be effective, it must be rigorously designed. Significant acts of protest may appear to spontaneously erupt, but the reality involves months of brainstorming, planning, organizing and training. Similarly, acts of architecture require immense coordination of moving parts, attention to detail and choreography of people. This overlap suggests that architectural designers can make powerful facilitators of successful dissent. As protest becomes an increasingly vital tool for expression, it offers architects and designers a new role to serve public interest.

Who’s streets? Our streets!

Radical acts of protest redefine the rules of the space they inhabit. They can challenge the ownership of city spaces by reclaiming public space. A march can challenge the conventional use of city streets. Banners and projections can transform building façades into messages. An occupation can reprogram spaces beyond their originally designed intent. With the right amount of coordination, there is no end to the possibilities. Any of the elements that affect the experience of a space are at play, but achieving impact is not simple, nor incidental. As a design problem, the challenge is to understand power and control in a space, who wields it and how can those forces can be rearranged to achieve a goal.

For the competition, participants will design an act of protest centered on climate change.

The action can be performed on a single site, or coordinate across several sites. As an architecture and design competition, the action should exist spatially - whether by transforming city plazas into occupation sites, redesigning building facades through guerrilla banners or projections, reorganizing circulation routes through creative blockades, etc. Examples of tools and methodologies used by creative activists can be explored in the Toolbox section on the competition website. Be bold, be strategic, and cause some trouble.

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Paul DE MARLIAVE

Modalities

Alone or as a team (10 max)
Alone or as a team (10 max)
Anyone
No age limit
Registration fees
$25 - $50
All countries
All countries
English

Rewards

Realization of the Protest

1st PLACE

50% of all collected entry fees

2nd PLACE

20% of entry fees

3rd PLACE

5% of entry fees

Winners and honorable mentions will be published via studioBLEAK, Beautiful Rising, Center for Artistic Activism, Backbone Campaign, and more TBA

Timeline

America/Los_Angeles
06 August 2018
06 August 2018

Submission ends

03 September 2018
03 September 2018

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