Bigger than a Breadbox is a current open international competition that examines the role of installation design and its hybrid artistic-spatial qualities that have made it an increasingly popular investigative medium in contemporary architecture practice.

Recently launched by organizers and Khôra exhibition curators Robert Trumbour and Aaron Willette, participants will explore the use of installation design specifically through the lens of the design-research process. Participants will be required to submit the following:

1. "A past built installation project that used the medium to engage a topic (disciplinary or not) external to the installation itself."
2. "A proposed installation for the Boston Society of Architects' BSA Space lobby at 290 Congress Street that builds upon the work done in the first project." The 290 Congress Street lobby proposals should be presented as a continued deeper exploration of the past built installation, and not simply be a re-applied concept.

An overall idea should link the two projects together while still following the specific requirements of the competition.

Confirmed preliminary jury members so far include:

• Robert Trumbour, exhibition curator, Khôra (Boston, MA)
• Aaron Willette, exhibition curator, Khôra (Ann Arbor, MI)
• Emily Grandstaff-Rice AIA, President, Boston Society of Architects
• Mary Fichtner, Director of Programs and Exhibits, Boston Society of Architects

The final jury members are:

• Benjamin Ball, Ball-Nogues Studio (Los Angeles, CA)
• Shauna Gilles-Smith, Ground (Boston, MA)
• Monica Ponce de Leon, MPdL Studio (Ann Arbor, MI; New York, NY; Boston, MA)
• Jenny Sabin, Jenny Sabin Studio (Philadelphia, PA)
• J. Frano Violich, Kennedy Violich Architecture, Ltd. (Boston, MA)

Submissions will be due on FEBRUARY 15, 2015. For full competition details, click here.