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Seoul, a UNESCO Creative City of Design since 2010 has launched in collaboration with the Seoul Design Foundation, the 2nd edition of the ‘Human City Design Award’. The competition provides a platform to establish through design a sustainable city ecosystem for a harmonious relationship between human and the environment.
Since its self-declaration as the ‘Human City Design Seoul’ in 2018, the city of Seoul intends to serve as a window for communication towards building an urban ecosystem where human and nature coexist as well as a platform...
Querétaro, a UNESCO Creative City of Design in Mexico, launched a Call for the first edition of ALTOPARLANTE, an international digital poster project, to celebrate the World Design Day (April 27).
With the premise ‘Creative Evolution’, the Call invites designers, artists and creative assets from the Creative Cities and beyond, to create posters with positive messages for fostering collective and diverse wellbeing. Facing the current ongoing challenge, the digital contest allows participants to share artistically their own vision of their...
Beijing, a UNESCO Creative City of Design, has launched its call for submission for the 2020 edition of the China Red Star Design Award, a leading design award with a broad international outreach. Created in 2006, the competition aims to encourage good design and promote the development of the design industry. Since its creation, the competition has received over 60,000 product submissions from more than 8,000 enterprises from over 30 countries.
The competition also grants the ‘original award’, which was launched in 2012, to a product that...
In December 2019, Saint-Étienne, a Creative City of Design in France, presented the outcomes of national programme “Design Assembly” to the French Ministry of Economy and Finance and the Ministry of Culture.
“Design Assembly”, coordinated by the Cité of Design in Saint-Étienne, aimed at analysing the strengths and weaknesses of the French design ecosystem, in order to outline a national comprehensive strategy for French design.
On 11 December 2019, a group of design professionals presented their proposals, following the themes of the six...
From 20 December 2019 to 3 January 2020, the entire wall of the Seoul Dongdaemun Design Plaza (DDP) designed by architect Zaha Hadid became a venue for excitement. At nightfall, the curved silver wall, the signature of the DDP, showcased a combination of light, moving images and music. The Seoul Metropolitan Government and the Seoul Design Foundation announced that they launched the “Seoul Light” initiative devoted to showing media-facade with various content using the outer surface of the DDP building as a huge screen.
The theme of this...
Design City, a highlight event as part of Geelong Design Week of March 2020, brings together business leaders, government bodies, research and educational institutions to explore the role of design and creativity in driving innovation.
Hosted by Deakin University, DesignMind and the City of Greater Geelong, the event will promote the exchange of good practices, insights, tools and techniques for sustainable development by integrating and interconnecting different actors such as private and public sectors, as well as local government and the...
Montreal, a UNESCO Creative City of Design, has launched an international and multidisciplinary urban design competition for the redevelopment of the McGill College Avenue.
The city wishes to transform this iconic avenue, which spans an area of 16,000 square meters, into a sustainable, ecological and citizen-centered space. Located in the heart of the vibrant area of downtown Montréal, McGill College Avenue will be pedestrianized and converted into a square, connecting the two Montréal cultural landmarks of Mount Royal and Place Ville Marie...
The BIAAF - Bilbao International Art & Fashion Platform – inaugurated on 10 October the seventh edition of its international fashion design competition, which will last until 16 December 2019.
The event aims at discovering promising fashion talents between 18 and 35 years old from all around the world, by identifying innovative ways to bridge fashion and design.
The BIAAF contest has become an international reference for youth entrepreneurship: the 2018 edition received a wide media coverage and was attended by more than 1,700...
From 18 to 27 October 2019, a new edition of the Open Design Afrika will be held in Cape Town (South Africa), a UNESCO Creative City of Design. This festival focuses on innovation, education and community as the building blocks of a sustainable, inclusive, and prosperous society. At ODA Festival we are invited to experience why creativity is the unifying thread that links the building blocks and solutions that can greatly contribute to the wellbeing and skills development of the Afrikan people and the design of thriving circular economies. The...
Until 30 November 2019, the Call for Entries for the 2019 Shenzhen Design Award for Young Talents (SDAY) is open.
For its 4th edition, SDAY invites design professionals or students aged 35 or younger of the 180 UNESCO Creative Cities to submit their work on the theme of Inclusive Design.
SDAY aims to encourage young talented designers for their contribution to the development of cities around the world. The purpose of SDAY is to reward the efforts of young designers, who, through their creativity, have contributed to the enhancement of...