[2007.01.05] Metropolis Next Generation

[takesh h]

Official Site

The Next Generation competition was created in 2003 to promote activism, social involvement, and entrepreneurship in young designers. Metropolis saw the need for a new type of competition, one that went beyond the usual beauty pageants for finished projects, a competition that would generate and reward ideas.

2007 is the year of ENERGY: Evidence is mounting on the destruction wreaked on our planet by the overuse of fossil fuels. The time for new thinking on energy is now. The call to action is clear, Al Gore’s timely film, An Inconvenient Truth, is just one demonstration of this pressing need. The Next Generation competition seeks entries that address energy as use, reduction, consumption, alternatives, and efficiency―at all scales of design.

Eligibility
The Next Generation Design Competition is open to any designer or architect in practice for ten years or less, as well as design students. The $10,000 prize is intended to support designers whose entries reflect considerations of sustainability, distribution and manufacturing systems, economy, current technologies and materials, function, and provocative form and can speak to any one of the 6 sub-disciplines supported by the magazine―architecture, urban planning, landscape design, interior design, product design, graphic design. Employees of Sponsors are not eligible. All entrants agree to be bound by the Official Rules.

Entry Fee & Deadline
The entry fee is $75 for each submission. All entries must be submitted by January 5, 2007 at 11:59 p.m. Residents of the following states by law are not required to pay an entry fee: MD, ND, and VT.