An Open International Competition to Design an Innovative Furniture for Neglected Communities in India & Africa

Competition Brief Competition is open to everyone including students and professionals. Design a furniture, which is ergonomically sound, cost effective, environment friendly and feasible to build in neglected communities. As we all are aware, inhabitants in slums and other neglected communities lack space to accommodate. The furniture designed shall fit and transform from smaller spaces to larger spaces, based on adaptive user need, help them to store, sit, sleep, read, and write and more.

Ketham’s Atelier Architects is international practice based in India. Earlier, Ketham’s Atelier had made low cost furniture called Curve-X, R300 and trained, widow women and others in neglected communities in making and donated the same to these communities. Ketham’s Atelier would fund these competition winner designs and helps in developing design further and construct prototypes of it and will donate it to Thinking Hand NGO India. NGO, who will share it with neglected communities.

“Lets flourish this time of isolation from covid-19 with creative thoughts and design ideas to empower and help neglected communities for sustainable future”  - Ketham Santosh Kumar

Prize and awards: First, Second, Third and Two special mentions

1. Winning Project will be Build by Ketham’s Atelier
2. Winning projects will be in Exhibition
3. Winning projects in Publication
4. Winning project will receive Trophy
5. Winning project will receive Certificate
6. Built furniture will be Shared in Neglected Communities

Evaluation criteria:

• Innovative
• Quality in design
• Material (Environment friendly)
• Stability and structure
• Buildable idea
• Expressing idea clearly on paper

Jury: National and International jurors from diverse backgrounds (Jurors list shall be announced on 31 May 2020)

Project submission format:

1. Online submission to [email protected]
2. Maximum Two A3 size sheets (landscape format)
3. Maximum Text 500 words, which expresses idea clearly. Scale of the drawings is up to participant’s choice.
4. Please mention your Unique Registration ID number on top right hand corner of the sheet.
5. Please submit your entry on or before 10 July 2020 at 11:59 PM IST  (Indian Standard Time)

Important Dates:

Competition Poster and Design brief release: 04 April 2020

Panel Jurors poster: 31 May 2020

Registration last date: 30 June 2020

Deadline for online submission: 10 July 2020

Results: 31 July 2020

For questions and queries please contact: [email protected]

Registration deadline: 30 June 2020 – Anyone can participate who is interested in designing (only one person in team)

Competition Registration click link below 

kethamsatelier.com/international-competition-2020 (Every registered participant will receive Thinking Hand T-shirt)

Please send your registration payment copy with below details to [email protected]

1. Why you would like to participate in competition
2. Name
3. School/College/Profession
4. Age
5. Address
6. Phone number

(Once registered you will receive unique ID number by email)

Organised & Funded by 

Ketham’s Atelier Architects

www.kethamsatelier.com