Birdhouse Competition for Students 2008

The global environment is transforming continuously. Human inhabitant environment is encountering enormous challenges. This competition provides an opportunity to consider an inhabitant pattern through an understanding of birdﾕs habitation, which improves human sustainable social consciousness.

Category Idea Competition / Open to Students
Type International, Idea, Students, Two-Stage, Anonymous
Genre Environment
Country Shanghai
RegDeadline 30 August 2008 GoogleCal iCal
30 August 2008 (Must be Received)
Eligibility Students from any university in the world, who has not graduated at the time of December, 2008.

Jury
Jury Head:Kenji Ekuan (Industrial Designer, Japan)
Jury Members (alphabetically):
Angelo Cortesi (Industrial Designer, Italy)
Atsushi Deguchi (Professor, Faculty of Human-Environment Studies, Kyushu University, Japan)
Hirofumi Sugimoto (Professor, Tokai University, Japan)
Jiang Xu (President, China Academy of Art, China)
Shouhei Fukui (Chief Planner, Expo 2005 Aichi, Japan)
Yung Ho Chang (Head and Professor, Department of Architecture, MIT, USA)
Zhiqiang Wu (Chief Planner, Expo 2010 Shanghai, President of College of Architecture & Urban Planning, Tongji University China)

Prize
Gold Prize (1): Certification and 30,000 RMB each
Silver Prize (2): Certification and 10,000 RMB each
Bronze Prize (5): Certification and 5,000 RMB each
Honorable Mention (15): Certification and Award

Entry Fee
None

Entries
First Phase:
Participant should submit a design proposal in the form of a photograph, sketch, rendering, drawing, or other media, on A4 panel format (297mm x 210mm). The number of panel is not limited.
Second Phase:
Model within 1m x 1m x 1m (Every entry project will be compensated with 500RMB for model making)

Submission Address
2008 Birdhouse in Shanghai Executive Committee
China Academy of Art Shanghai Institute of Design
No. 109 Chunxiao Road, Pudong Zhangjiang Hi-Tech Park
Shanghai, China 201203
Tel: 86-021-50802834, 86-021-50277973

Timetable
First Phase Nomination: Mid-September, 2008
Second Phase Submission Deadline: October 25th, 2008
Result announced: http://www.birdhouse.gr.jp at the beginning of November
Exhibition: December, 2008 at Shanghai World Financial Center

Links
Past winners

Promoter
2008 Birdhouse Project Competition Organizing Committee
Japan Committee of Ecological Environmental Promotion
Shanghai Zhangjiang Creative Industry Development Co., Ltd

Official Website
http://www.birdhouse.gr.jp/english/shan/shan01e.htm