Trieste Contemporanea 2018, 13th International Design Contes

Description

The 2018 edition of the contest will be based on the ongoing two-year project Harbour for Cultures (from now on: H/C). H/C draws inspiration from the real case history of how to convert and reuse the area of the Porto Vecchio of Trieste, which has remained unused and in a state of decay for decades.

The Trieste Award challenge is to invent, in terms of social design or relational design, something pertinent to a harbour for culture – the 2018 subject of the competition – but peculiar for the area given of Porto Vecchio, which, with all the specific characteristics of a once successful trading port, is now an industrial heritage site to be rethought for the modern life of the whole city.

Participants are asked to contribute to H/C with a concrete project and to conceive an original and innovative item of contemporary design that should be useful in a possible harbour for cultures.

The competition is open to all designers born in CEI member states 

Each contestant can enter only a single project, unless entering one for the general theme of the competition and a separate one for the Trieste Award’s dedicated theme.

The works SELECTED by the jury will be published in an online catalogue on the Trieste Contemporanea website.

All the selected and winning designs should be displayed in a final exhibition, to be held during the period September-November 2018 and the Trieste Contemporanea Committee reserves the right to exhibit the works elsewhere in Italy and abroad.