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The Biennial Competition is an open call for projects and publications carried out during the four years prior to each edition of the BAQ. In its twenty-two editions, the Biennial Competition has had more than 7,000 entries and has rewarded their contributions in the practice of architecture, urban planning, landscape, theory and architectural dissemination.

Put 18th June 2024, 6 pm MET (Berlin time) in your calendar, when we will call to the virtual event ´PresentationXchange´ of the International designbuildXchange Award Winners 2024!

Program

Tuesday, 18th June 2024,  6:00 pm MET (Berlin time)

WITH HEAD AND HANDS / hlavou & rukama

3rd Student Scientific Conference School of Architecture 2024 

Organized by the Institute of Design II under the direction of Dalibor Hlaváček, the conference will focus on the teaching of design-build projects at architecture schools. 

International Guests:  Michael Hughes, [American University of Sharjah, UAE] 
                                     Marie + Keith Zawistowski, [ENSA Grenoble, FR] 
Moderator:                  Rick Sommerfeld, [University of Colorado Denver, USA]

The International DesignBuildXchange Award 2024 received a diverse range of competition entries. The jury was particularly impressed by the variety of methodological, thematic and constructive approaches presented. These projects ranged from two-week summer school initiatives to long-term commitments, combining action and learning as iterative processes alongside in-depth research integration.

The closing date for entries extended to  2024 March 29th.   

DesignBuild 2024: design, build, reflect

We are pleased to celebrate the relaunch of the dbXchange web platform with an award for new DesignBuild projects.
 

Call for Projects
The Call for Projects is open to DesignBuild projects that have been realized within the last three years (2020-2023) and are published on the dbXchange website. We are looking forward to new approaches to technology, sustainability, circular economy and scaling; to new focus areas such as
social justice, interdisciplinary work and pedagogy; to new insights into funding, ethics and project evaluation.

This video from the opening of the DCGN International Exhibition Budapest shows the atmosphere of the opening. Speakers include curator Lisa Abendroth, DCG Networkpartners Sergio Palleroni, Ursula Hartig, Peter Fattinger, and project contributor Tibor Zoltán Dány.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7kVnU9EtPGg&t=353s

Agency, empowerment, impact: these characteristics distinguish the work featured in the Design for the Common Good International Exhibition. In its first international venue outside of the United States, the Design for the Common Good Network, Metropolitan State University of Denver, and Budapest Metropolitan University Faculty of Art and Creative Industries are pleased to present this curated collection of thirty-two projects from six continents and twenty-three countries.

Die von der Sto-Stiftung unterstützte Buchreihe „DesignBuild REFLECT" beleuchtet theoriebildende und projektübergreifende Fragestellungen der Lehr- und Lernmethode „DesignBuild“. Als erstes der auf vier Bücher angelegten Reihe ist nun „DesignBuild_Joint perspectives“ erschienen und kostenlos erhältlich. In diesem Buch erörtern die Autorinnen und Autoren eine gemeinsame DesignBuild-Hypothese anhand des Spannungsfeldes zwischen gesellschaftlicher Transformation, Architekturausbildung und -produktion.

You have built or renovated one or more buildings using a significant amount of raw earth, stone and vegetal fibers. Don’t wait any longer, submit your application online!

The materia award was inspired by the success of the TERRA Award (2016), the FIBRA Award (2019) and the TERRAFIBRA Award (2021) and is a continuity of these first three editions.

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This inaugural edition will take place at the University of Sheffield on November 14, 2023

at Arts Tower (Basement) LT 04, University of Sheffield (view on map).

You can also join us online >> register here.

Budapest Metropolitan University Faculty of Art and Creative lndustries
October 4 - 19, 2023
Artus Contemporary Studio
Budapest, Sztregova u. 7, 1116 Ungarn

The DesignBuild competition is going into the next round: In 2024, we are again offering grants in the disciplines DesignBuild PROJECT and DesignBuild REFLECT. Applications will be accepted online only at www.sto-stiftung.de/designbuild starting September 18. The closing date for entries is December 15, 2023.

We are proud to announce that the dbXchange association received a grant from the STO Foundation to develop INSIGHTdb, a series of events, lectures and publications that will be featured on the dbXchange website.

The exhibition highlights projects designed collaboratively with communities to create opportunity and solutions from within. The resulting exchange of ideas in this exhibition provides compelling evidence that designers and stakeholders work best together when sharing local resources and knowledge that aim to improve quality of life for people worldwide.

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