{"id":3599,"date":"2009-04-08T10:18:25","date_gmt":"2009-04-08T18:48:25","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.furiousdreams.com\/blog\/?p=3599"},"modified":"2009-04-08T10:18:25","modified_gmt":"2009-04-08T18:48:25","slug":"imagine","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.furiousdreams.com\/blog\/imagine\/","title":{"rendered":"Imagine"},"content":{"rendered":"

The Obama administration has launched a competition <\/a>for designers to fix the country’s problems. That’s right, designers<\/em>. So here’s your chance to stop saying that nobody appreciates that infinitesimal kerning you made to three word copy the other day. Go to the link and read the brief.<\/p>\n

Competition submissions are due on April 29, 2009, the 100th day of the Obama presidency. Two weeks later the jury will announce winners and address the public in a discussion at\u00c2\u00a0Studio X<\/a>\u00c2\u00a0in New York. Winners will receive prizes and be published in\u00c2\u00a0Volume Magazine<\/a>. The after-image of the competition will be distributed in a publication and traveling video exhibition.<\/p>\n

The hope is that not only designers, but artists and thinkers from all walks of life will respond to this call. Most of us probably don’t remember that during the last ‘great depression’, artists were given complete license to create. There was no jurying board, no NEA to define the limitations. I have a posting about that on another site here.<\/a><\/p>\n

So who came up with this brilliant idea? From the March 11th Architectural Record article<\/a> :<\/p>\n

‘Two\u00c2\u00a0students at the Columbia University Graduate School of Architecture, Planning, and Preservation, Wayne Congar and Troy Therrien, have convened an open ideas competition, dubbed Imagining Recovery, devised to integrate design into the conversation of how and where stimulus dollars should be spent.<\/em><\/p>\n

Calling the competition an attempt to “make sense of these numbers that are being thrown around,” Congar hopes that the submissions will help interpret the 1500-plus page American Recovery and Reinvestment Act and create visions for the future. In a larger sense, the organizers hope to reorient how design is seen in a policy setting: Architecture and planning ideas should be present in the initial stages of policy creation, Congar says, rather than be part of a reactive process, in which designers are handed projects long after the government has allocated funds for them.<\/em><\/p>\n

Those entries, according to the\u00c2\u00a0<\/em>Imagining Recovery Web site<\/em><\/a>, may be ideas \u00e2\u20ac\u0153in any form, from physical, built objects, to technological applications and interfaces, to campaigns to affect social behavior, to the design of phasing strategies, and beyond.\u00e2\u20ac\u009d Submissions are to center around one \u00e2\u20ac\u0153experiential image,\u00e2\u20ac\u009d which Therrien calls describes as a vision of \u00e2\u20ac\u0153what life might be like after that money is spent.\u00e2\u20ac\u009d This image should be accompanied by up to six accompanying text, visual, or video documents.<\/em><\/p>\n

The competition is open to everyone, regardless of age, nationality, or profession. Submissions are due on April 29\u00e2\u20ac\u201dthe 100th day of the Obama Administration. The jury, which will include MoMA curator Barry Bergdoll and architect Bernard Tschumi, among others, will announce winners on May 13.<\/em><\/p>\n

Three winners will be given cash awards (amounts are yet to be determined; the organizers are still fundraising). The winning concepts, along with a number of honorable mentions, will be published in a forthcoming issue of<\/em>Volume Magazine<\/em>\u00c2\u00a0and be featured in a traveling exhibition to be shown in New York, Beijing, and Amman, Jordan.’<\/em><\/p>\n

This competition is organized by\u00c2\u00a0LAB\\RAD<\/a>, in collaboration with\u00c2\u00a0C-LAB<\/a>, SIPA, the Global Public Policy Network and\u00c2\u00a0THE MORNINGSIDE POST<\/a>.<\/p>\n

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