Make a Difference in Two Days

Design Corps and The Architectural League are seeking teams of designers to participate in a weekend of design activism, mobilizing your design skills and energy to create and implement a design for the public good. This mini-design/build project will both draw on your creativity and make a positive impact on city life. Six teams of designers will be selected to participate, based on a submission describing team composition and interest in the project.
What you will need:
1. Two days of energy and the ability to design and build a complete small project that benefits the public.
2. The capacity to document your process through still photographs, audio and/or video.
Schedule:
Friday, November 14 at 6:00 pm: Project brief will be given at start of the 48-hour period.
Sunday, November 16 at 9:00 pm: A 5-minute video (or still photographs and text) is submitted at the end of the 48 hours.
Monday, November 17 at 7:00 pm: Selected projects will be presented and discussed at a closing event open to the public.
Participation is free; construction materials and costs are the responsibility of the participants. Teams are invited to submit a brief paragraph outlining their team’s potential strengths in rapidly identifying and responding to opportunities for site-specific design interventions and improvements, including prior experience in time-sensitive design and the team’s access to found/inexpensive materials and implementation methods. Six teams will be selected to participate in the project; please send submissions of no more than 500 words to [email protected] by 5:00 p.m. on Friday, October 31.
Successful projects will be presented as part of UrbanOmnibus.net through video documentation of the design process and online commentary on actual public use. Urban Omnibus is a new web-based project of the Architectural League that explores the relationship between design and New York City’s physical environment: revealing the choices shaping the city, inspiring conversation, encouraging innovation.

The Architectural League of New York is an independent forum for creative and intellectual work in architecture, urbanism, and related disciplines. Through its lectures, exhibitions, publications, and digital programming, the League fosters discussion and debate of the most stimulating work and important issues in contemporary architecture and design. The League’s website, www.archleague.org, has a great deal of supplemental information on programs as well as programs and material produced exclusively for the web.