The School of Architecture, Planning and Landscape (SAPL) at the University of Calgary has launched its second international design ideas competition, asking: How can designers intervene in borders"
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The program describes borders as a “spaces of transition, whether political and imposed through human agency, or natural and made manifest through geographical features ? borders are associated with civilization?s greatest challenges.”
The competition asks entrants to consider the opportunities, challenges, and complexities latent within borders and propose new paradigms. Participants can choose any type of border, define a friction that presents a programmatic opportunity, and propose a design that impacts the agents (human or otherwise) that are affected, influenced, or in proximity to that border. ?As humanity wakes from the immobility that has been imposed by the pandemic, the relationships that govern our world will look much different than those of just one year ago. In this transitionary phase to new tomorrows, borderlands hold immense potential as microcosms of civilization. This competition tackles a timely topic that seeks to examine urgent questions,” says Alberto de Salvatierra, assistant professor with the School of Architecture, Planning, and Landscape and CBDX chair.
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