REGISTER
This competition is reserved for ASID Student Members. If you are not yet a member, for only $45 you can join ASID and become eligible to enter the competition as well as all annual member benefits. Click here for more information.
SUBMISSION CRITERIA
1. Submissions shall consist of up to FIVE 11x17 digital boards
2. Text Description must include title, concept, approach, site, materials, and estimated budget
3. Supplemental images must be included on digital design boards
4. Sustainable Strategies for surrounding environments and occupants
All image files should be made visible in the entry project slideshow, and the project description text should be placed in the description field of the project's edit form so it appears below the slideshow. Sorry, pdfs do not show up in the slideshow.
HOW TO SUBMIT
Once you have gathered the required text and image files and uploaded them to the Open Architecture Network, you may make Edits and changes until the Submission Deadline. After the submission deadline, jury members will view submissions. Entrants will NOT be allowed to edit any project details or files once they have been submitted to the jury. Editing may resume after the competition is complete and a winning design has been selected. If we have any trouble reading or opening your entry, competition organizers will notify you.
RULES
The purpose of 2012 ASID Student Design Competition is to generate ideas that will produce a profoundly different generation of buildings and interiors across the globe. To that end, we ask that all entrants read and agree to the rules before entering the competition. The rules are intended to make it possible for the American Society of Interior Designers to share all of designs submitted to the competition with those who could benefit most from them.
In submitting an entry to the competition, all participants agree to comply with the rules and terms of entry below.
ELIGIBILITY
The 2012 ASID Student Design Competition is open to ASID Student Members only in good standing. There is a $25 entry fee required and no entry will be considered without this. If you need to locate your membership information or have any other questions, please contact futureofdesign@asid.org
Direct employees and family members of employees of Architecture for Humanity are precluded from participating in the competition.
In order to enter the competition, entrants must register for the Open Architecture Network. Participants may submit more than one entry, however, each entry must be accompanied by an entry fee. For judging purposes, each design is considered as a separate entry and a separate entry fee must be paid. Multiple designs will not be considered as a single entry.
PERIOD OF SUBMISSION
Entrants are invited to develop their design throughout the submission period. Once the submission period has ended, they will not be permitted to make changes to their entry until the judging has concluded at which time entrants will regain access to their project and may continue to develop their design. Entries that are late, illegible, incomplete, misdirected or incompletely received will not be eligible.
The competition organizers reserve the right to delay or extend the period of submission.
ANONYMITY AND DESIGN CREDIT
All files uploaded must be submitted without any markings that will identify team members in order to facilitate fair judging of the competition. Plans, Elevations, Site Plans, Renderings and any other files submitted for consideration should not include title blocks or any other identifying information. Failure to comply with this rule will lead to disqualification.
This does not apply to the Project Details or "Edit Settings" area of each entry, which must be completed in full and must include the names and roles of all team members. Please note: Information entered in the Project Details or Project Settings area will be used to give proper credit to design team members.
OWNERSHIP AND COPYRIGHT
By entering the competition, entrants agree to a) post entry materials to the Open Architecture Network and to the Terms of Use of the Open Architecture Network; b) to license all materials submitted under the Creative Commons Attribution Non-Commercial Share Alike license and to adhere to the terms of that license. Learn about the Creative Commons Attribution Non-Commercial Share Alike license. Please note, however, that to the extent these Rules conflict with the Terms of Use of the Open Architecture Network or the Creative Commons Attribution Non-Commercial Share Alike license, these Rules govern the competition.
Entrants shall own all design concepts, drawings, images, renderings, sketches, photographs, models, and/or text, documents, information or other materials submitted in association with the competition provided. However, the entrant hereby grants the American Society of Interior Designers, the Open Architecture Network and its designees perpetual, free, unrestricted use of the submission materials in fulfillment of its charitable purposes, including its annual report, its websites and in communications with volunteers, funders and the media and all other purposes specified in these Rules. Such use is expressly not directed toward commercial advantage or private monetary compensation.
The entrant further hereby grants, the Open Architecture Network and its designees a perpetual, free, unrestricted license to use the submission materials in fulfillment of its social investment projects for the design and construction in the developing world and in its annual report, its websites and in communications with volunteers, funders and the media and all other purposes specified in these Rules.
Notwithstanding the Open Architecture Network’s rights as Licensors, competition entrants shall retain full rights to use the documents in other projects for commercial and for-profit purposes. By entering this competition entrants warrant that all materials submitted by them are their own, that nothing in the submission of these materials will infringe the copyright or any other right of any person and that they have full authority to submit the materials for such purposes.
EXHIBITION AND PUBLICATION
The organizers will exhibit selected entries during and after the competition. The results of the competition may be presented online, in galleries or other venues, or in a printed publication and all entries will be available to be viewed on the Open Architecture Network and on the American Society of Interior Designers website. Selected and Finalist entrants may be asked to build scale models representing their design and provide printed presentation boards for exhibition purposes.
In any exhibition, publication, or website, the organizers will make every effort to properly credit the appropriate competitors. The American Society of Interior Designers and the Open Architecture Network and its designees reserve the right to utilize materials submitted by entrants in any publication or promotional endeavor in perpetuity and free of charge (See "Ownership and Copyright").
DISPUTES
The jury has the sole authority and responsibility to recommend winners at the end of the competition. The organizers reserve the right to make a final decision regarding the winning design and any funding that may be made available for the development or implementation of designs entered into the competition. The competition administrators’ decisions in connection with all matters concerning the competition shall be final and binding.
LIMITATION OF LIABILITY
By entering the competition, all entrants and team members agree to indemnify, defend and hold the American Society of Interior Designers and the Open Architecture Network, including their chartered units, and its governors, directors, officers, employees, agents, partners, funders, sponsors and volunteers from and against any and all suits, claims, demands, liabilities, damages, costs and expenses (reasonable attorneys’ fees) arising out of or relating in any way to services it provides in connection with this agreement.
COMMITMENTS AND OBLIGATIONS
Finalists must be willing to agree to the commitments and obligations described below in order to receive award funding and to be acknowledged as a finalist of the design competition.
- An active ASID Student Member in good standing
- A student currently enrolled in interior design classes
- All winning materials will be permitted for use by ASID
SELECTION CRITERIA
Selection criteria will include:
- The design is original
- Responds to the competition’s objectives as laid out in the brief
- Responds to the overall impact the design will have on the environment, both locally and globally
- The clarity of presentation materials
- Completion of entry to include account created, and board and payment submitted successfully
If you have any questions about the rules stipulated above, please do not hesitate to contact the competition administrators.
