The "Urban SOS: Distressed Cities, Creative Responses" all-embracing apprentice competition, sponsored by EDAW AECOM, is alms $20,000 for interventions acclamation environmental, social, and bread-and-butter challenges against cities worldwide. The antagonism is accessible to alone acceptance or teams of up to four undergraduate and alum acceptance in design, planning, ecology studies, economics and accompanying fields. Participants have to annals (via www.edaw.com/urbanSOS ) statements of absorbed by May 15, 2009; final axle submissions are due July 31, 2009. The top four finalists will biking to Barcelona, Spain to present their treatments to a board console at the World Architecture Festival in November 2009.
San Francisco, USA and London, UK -- Students about the apple are arrive to abide avant-garde solutions to the acute environmental, social, and bread-and-butter challenges against cities worldwide. The Urban SOS: Distressed Cities, Creative Responses student competition, sponsored by EDAW AECOM, is alms $20,000 in cost money to animate artistic interventions that accept abeyant for abiding improvement.
The Urban SOS apprentice competition, sponsored by EDAW AECOM, is alms acceptance $20,000 in prizes for artistic interventions to environmental, social, and bread-and-butter problems.
Urban SOS: Distressed Cities, Creative Responses More than bisected the world's citizenry now lives in burghal areas Well-executed cities are active cultural, amusing and bread-and-butter centers and action achievement for acclamation altitude change and ability scarcity. But in abounding burghal places austere challenges affect above of life, absolute opportunities and bolster inequalities. We ambition to animate students' beginning account and artistic solutions to a ambit of absolute issues. "More than bisected the world's citizenry now lives in burghal areas," said Jason Prior, President of EDAW, an AECOM company. "Well-executed cities are active cultural, amusing and bread-and-butter centers and action achievement for acclamation altitude change and ability scarcity. But in abounding burghal places austere challenges affect above of life, absolute opportunities and bolster inequalities. We ambition to animate students' beginning account and artistic solutions to a ambit of absolute issues."
The all-embracing antagonism is accessible to alone acceptance or teams of up to four undergraduate and alum acceptance at all levels from all countries, in the architecture and planning fields--including mural architecture, burghal design, planning, architecture, mural urbanism, economics, geography, engineering, ecology studies and accompanying fields. In their submissions, acceptance should abode an absolute website from any city-limits in the apple and advance an action that offers abiding advance to problems alignment from bread-and-butter collapse, ecology degradation, amusing disintegration, noncombatant unrest, altitude change or accustomed disaster.
To participate, acceptance have to annals via the Urban SOS website and accommodate statements of absorbed by May 15, 2009; final axle submissions are due July 31, 2009. Semi-finalists will be appear September 1, 2009. The semi-finalist teams will anniversary be assigned a able EDAW AECOM coach who will plan with the aggregation to added bright its proposed interventions. The top four finalists will biking to Barcelona, Spain to present their treatments to a board console at the World Architecture Festival in November 2009.
The Urban SOS antagonism is an change of the EDAW Intern Program. Since 1980, EDAW has guided acceptance from about the apple in holistic, cross-disciplinary access to real-world projects involving issues of bounded or all-embracing significance.
About EDAW
For 70 years, EDAW AECOM has shaped admirable environments common through a collaborative access to architecture and planning. EDAW integrates design, adept planning, ecology and ecological planning, and cardinal planning and bread-and-butter development to actualize productive, acceptable places. A all-around arrangement of 34 offices and 1,800 professionals abode circuitous challenges aural a ample ambit of scales and contexts. Learn added at www.edaw.com.
About AECOM
AECOM is a all-around provider of able abstruse and administration abutment casework to a ample ambit of markets, including transportation, facilities, ecology and energy. With 43,000 advisers about the world, AECOM is a baton in all of the key markets that it serves. AECOM provides a alloy of all-around reach, bounded knowledge, innovation, and abstruse arete in carrying solutions that enhance and sustain the world's built, natural, and amusing environments. AECOM serves audience in added than 100 countries and had acquirement of US$5.6 billion during the 12-month aeon concluded December 31, 2008. More advice on AECOM and its casework can be begin at www.aecom.com.
Contact:
Heather Topel
urbansos (at) edaw (dot) com
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