After several weeks of stay-at-home orders in many countries, most of us architects and designers have (more or less) settled into the new reality of working from home. If you are finding yourself bored inside your four walls, with pent-up creativity bursting out of your fingertips and longing to shake up the daily quarantine routine a bit, why not enter a design competition right now?
Bustler, Archinect's sister site, has got you covered with the latest listings in our vast competitions database. In the past week alone, we have added over 40 new challenges!
One noticeable theme that stood out among the recent submissions was the concern over pandemics in general, and COVID-19 in particular, and how architects and designers can address and mitigate health threats in the future.
Here are, ordered by registration and submission due date, a few of the recently listed pandemic-focused competitions.
IdeasForward Fast Archi Challenges 1st edition - pandemic
Registration Deadline: Saturday, Apr 18, 2020
Submission Deadline: Sunday, Apr 19, 2020
The World Health Organization (WHO) has declared that we are experiencing a pandemic of the new coronavirus, called Sars-Cov-2. [...] The entire contest is online and to be developed from each person's home. Some challenges are individual others may be in groups but they should always work online. #stayhome #workonline
Creativity for New Hygienism
Registration Deadline: Monday, Apr 20, 2020
Submission Deadline: Wednesday, May 20, 2020
How can innovation, architecture and design protect us from pandemics? This competition is an invitation to come up with innovative proposals capable of responding to the health crisis we are going through and those we may encounter tomorrow.
ARCHITECTURE BEYOND COVID-19
Registration Deadline: Monday, Apr 20, 2020
Submission Deadline: Friday, May 15, 2020
We invite all architects, urban designers and interior designers
(student also welcome) to submit projects that provide possible
solutions to how the built environment should be re-designed to prevent
the spread of future pandemics that are likely to happen.
CFAD20: LIMITOGRAPHY
Registration Deadline: Sunday, Apr 26, 2020
Submission Deadline: Monday, May 4, 2020
At this critical moment in time, LIBRARY is promoting a special edition of CFAD to support the WHO (World Health Organization) in response to the Covid-19 pandemic through the “Solidarity Response Fund”. CFAD, “Call for Architecture Drawings” is a contest that focuses its attention on graphic research, through reflections and themes from current issues, literature, cinema, philosophy and other disciplines in dialogue with Architecture.
Pandemic Architecture International Ideas Competition
Registration Deadline: Sunday, Apr 26, 2020
Submission Deadline: Monday, May 4, 2020
“Extraordinary times” require extraordinary design. What Can Architecture Do for our Health? [...] Pandemic Architecture Competition attempts to open up a dialogue and create a think tank, looking for ideas from the architectural and design community about the future of the living, the workspace, the public space and the tourism industry.
And if you're committed to go fully apocalyptic, consider this challenge:
Architecture of the Apocalypse - Using Space Technology to colonize earth again after Apocalypse
Registration Deadline: Sunday, Apr 26, 2020
Submission Deadline: Monday, May 4, 2020
EARTH is a doomed planet and if humans do not act fast, humanity faces going down with the ship, Professor Stephen Hawking warned in his last book. [...] Brief: It is your mission if you choose to accept it, to design a self-sufficient, closed-loop life support system that can support regenerative life for the minimum viable population (MVP). The MVP for this competition is 160 human beings on any location on earth after the extinction-level event where any location on earth will be an extremely harsh environment as any extraterrestrial planet.
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2025 Design for Freedom Competition: Ethical and Equitable Materiality to End Forced Labor
Register by Wed, Apr 9, 2025
Submit by Wed, Jun 4, 2025
MICROHOME Kingspan 2024/25
Register by Thu, Dec 5, 2024
Submit by Tue, Mar 18, 2025
Hospice - Home for Terminally Ill #4
Register by Wed, Jan 15, 2025
Submit by Mon, Jun 16, 2025
Show Garden Competition for Seoul International Garden Show 2025
Register/Submit by Wed, Dec 18, 2024
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