The RAIC is seeking new and innovative proposals for an urban marker to be displayed at the 2017 RAIC/OAA Festival of Architecture, taking place in Ottawa from May 24-27.
The Urban Marker Competition was created and established by Storefront Manitoba, along with the Architectural Fringe Festival at the 2014 MAA / RAIC Festival in Winnipeg, Manitoba. The Urban Marker created a unique physical marker to signal and to celebrate events and locations of the Architecture Fringe Festival happenings.
At the 2002 RAIC Festival of Architecture, a vertical marker was created that stood 50?. It consisted of a scissor jack platform raised on site, draped with neon mesh, lit at night from within, and inscribed with famous quotations centered around urbanism. It was transported, erected and set alongside a number of Festival venues. This Urban Maker was the first of its kind. At 2014 MAA / RAIC Festival of Architecture in Winnipeg, the 2014 Urban [marker] Branding was the proposition of a way-finding system and the transformation of mundane, temporary city signage systems, repurposing them to direct the attention of the casual observer, the passerby, the motorist, and the pedestrian to important and significant events occurring within the city and within the design community. Simply a magnetic signage application, the use of reflective material, and bright colour, the strategic placement and the accumulation of these of the markers around design venues enhanced the sense anticipation and ...