NOTION OF SPACE International ‘Paradoxical – Installation’ Design Competition

INTRODUCTION

As exciting as it may seem, the hustle and bustle of city life get bitter and mundane with every passing day. With no new perspectives and exposure to the ever-increasing traffic, pollution, and an unstoppable, fast-paced life that runs on repeat mode.

Introducing a paradox in regular life can bring a change of perspective and a sense of joy and excitement. Artuminate launches the ‘Notion of Space’ competition aiming to explore the imagination of creative minds by providing an experiential break for the city dwellers.

Artuminate challenges you to design an Experiential Paradoxical Installation in the city.

 “The impossibility of questioning the nature of space and at the same time experiencing a spatial praxis”

-Bernard Tschumi

Purpose:

Understanding the importance of imagination in architecture

Objective:

To address the issues of the banality of city life and using paradoxical architecture to add excitement in every day’s mundane life

Design Program:

An Experiential – Paradoxical Installation Design

Design process:

• Select a stretch of street in the midst of a hustling bustling urban area.

• Mark points A, B, C, D, E, and F on the selected stretch at reasonable distances.
• Create Experiential – Paradoxical Installation at following stretches of the street – A to B, C to D, and E to F.
• You are free to select the area and location for the installation.

Supporting data:

 

“A paradox is not a conflict within reality. It is a conflict between realities of your feeling of what reality should be like.”

-Richard Feynman

Guidelines:

• Site / Location – Participants’ choice (Condition: Hustling City)
• The word to remember is ‘Paradoxical’.
• We are expecting experiential & paradoxical design.
• Drawing requirements: Conceptual (Priority), Plans, Sections, Elevations, View (based on your design).
• Support your design with all possible explanations, (Formats that are accepted: Text, Video, Audio, and the most obvious drawings).
• Accepted format: Drawings – JPEG./JPG. | Text – Docx./Docs.

 

Key Idea to be remembered:

“A paradox is not a conflict within reality. It is a conflict between realities of your feeling of what reality should be like.”

-Richard Feynman

 

Keywords to be remembered:

• Notion of Space: A conception or belief about space.
• Paradoxical: Something that is made up of two opposite things that seem impossible but are actually true or possible.
• Experiential: Involving experience.

 

Participation:

• This competition is open to all.
• You can participate individually or as a team (Maximum 3 members in a team)
• University students can contact us for discounts – email us at [email protected]

 

Submission Requirements:

• Presentation Board (Min. 02 Max. 05 no | size: A1 Landscape format)
• The reasoning for the selection of the city and the installation areas.
• Text Summary (Min. 300 words)

Submission Guidelines

• Download the submission folder (A zip folder) – Click the requirements button on our online brief.
• Upload all the requirements in the designated folder.
• Rename the folder with your participation code.
• Upload the folder to Google drive/dropbox
• Email the link in the format mentioned below:
• Email address: [email protected]
• Email Subject: NOSPID_your code (example: NOSPID_XX_XXX_2202_US)

*Do not ask any queries on [email protected], email all your queries to [email protected].

Timeline:

• Registration deadline: 8th January 2023

• AR (advanced registration): 1st July 2022 – 23rd July 2022
• ER(early registration): 24th July 2022 – 8th August 2022
• SRL1 (standard registration level 1): 9th August 2022 – 8th September 2022
• SRL2 (standard registration level 2): 9th September 2022 – 8th October 2022
• SRL3 (standard registration level 3): 9th October 2022 – 8th November 2022
• SRL4 (standard registration level 4): 9th November 2022 – 8th December 2022
• LR (late registration): 9th December 2022 – 23rd December 2022
• CR(countdown registration): 24th December 2022 – 8th January 2023

• Submission deadline: 23rd January 2023
• Result Announcement: 4th March  2023 

Participants will be notified in case of an update in the timeline.

 

Prizes:

• BESPOKE MEDAL

The competition winner receives a bespoke medal as a token of appreciation.

• PUBLICATION

News announcement on global platforms (platforms partnered with us – Global exposure.)

Design feature on our platform.

• INTERVIEWS

Exclusive Interview in both text & video format (Video feature on our home page)

• ATTESTED CERTIFICATE

Certificate of achievement will be awarded to our winners / honorable mentions & a participation certificate to all our participants 

• PUBLICATION OF ARTICLE / DESIGN

Design/article feature on our partnering platform.

• JURY CRITS / COMMENTS ON YOUR ENTRY WITH DETAILS

Comments from our jurors for improvement and appreciation

& MORE

 

*All the certificates will be attested and e-format.

 

Judgment Criteria

• Conceptual development
• Design development
• Imagination
• Presentation
• Originality
• Description

Jury

To be announced.

Fees

• AR (advanced registration): 1st July 2022 – 23rd July 2022 | $25 (INT) / ₹500(IND)
• ER(early registration): 24th July 2022 – 8th August 2022 | $27 (INT) / ₹800(IND)
• SRL1 (standard registration level 1): 9th August 2022 – 8th September 2022 | $32 (INT) / ₹900(IND)
• SRL2 (standard registration level 2): 9th September 2022 – 8th October 2022 | $37 (INT) / ₹1000(IND)
• SRL3 (standard registration level 3): 9th October 2022 – 8th November 2022 | $39 (INT) / ₹1500(IND)
• SRL4 (standard registration level 4): 9th November 2022 – 8th December 2022 | $42 (INT) / ₹2000(IND)
• LR (late registration): 9th December 2022 – 23rd December 2022 | $47 (INT) / ₹2500(IND)
• CR(countdown registration): 24th December 2022 – 8th January 2023 | $57 (INT) / ₹2600(IND)

*(INT) – International payments /*(IND) – Indian payments. 

Registration:

Visit our website: www.artuminate.com

Click the competition banner: 

Notion of Space – https://www.artuminate.com/annual-competition/notion-of-space

 

Organisers:

Artuminate – www.artuminate.com  & Archiol – www.archiol.com