Register January 15th, 2018 | Submit January 15th, 2018 |
(UN)COMMON GROUNDS
Reconfigure the Border United States – Mexico
BRIEF
The idea is to create an urban and architectural platform for the study, research, and exploration of issues and questions tied to borders.
The exercise consists of getting hold of the subject of borders as a symbolic representation of the political arena, be it real, imaginary, or claimed, and to compare it to different levels of the territory and to urban and architectural questions and issues. By analyzing the USA / Mexico border, the idea is to formulate hypotheses and to attempt to solve spatial equations of territories that isolate themselves and that turn their back to each other.
The border offers a concealed potential site on standby, which relates to a true space of negotiation in gestation, an in-between fixed by collective rituals and by power struggles. Through a speculative and prospective approach, the idea is to test constraints starting from conflicting economic, social, and political parameters that arise from the context based on a sample of the territory. Through this approach, we aim to determine its capability to consume, absorb, and digest cyclic ruptures. The participants have all the freedom to bring an architectural and/or urban response to the issues that are contemplated and raised by the problem of the USA/ Mexico border, be it at a specific location, a portion of it, or its entirety. The participants will have the freedom to determine which scale is the most relevant to answer the raised issues or the questions that they will have asked themselves, or that actually occur on site.
SCHEDULE
Registration – Submission – January 15th, 2018
AWARDS
First prize of 500 euros
Second prize of 300 euros
Third prize of 200 euros
FEES
The online registration fee amounts to 50 euros until November 20th, 2017 (early registration), 60 euros from November 21th, 2017 to December 18th, 2017 (standard registration), 70 euros from December 19th, 2017 to January 15th, 2018 (late registration).
WEBSITE
https://uncommongrounds.tumblr.com/
