Envision 2040 - A City of Orlando design competition

http://www.cityoforlando.net/elected/greenworks/2040.htm
Green Works Orlando: Envision 2040 Competition Brief

Purpose of the Competition:
The City of Orlando is currently developing the first Green Works Orlando Community Action Plan. Orlando Mayor Buddy Dyer has challenged the community to develop a plan that would transform Orlando, within a generation, into one of the most environmentally-friendly, economically and socially vibrant communities in the nation. In conjunction with the Plan, the City is introducing a competition, titled Envision 2040, which aims to illustrate what the City will look like in the future.

Envision 2040 is an ideas competition that promotes an effort to visualize what Orlando, the most sustainable City in the southeast, will look like in 2040.  If all the goals and objectives of the Plan were implemented today, what would our City look like in the future?

Drawings, renderings, and pictures are as important as words in embracing and understanding the possibilities of a greener future. We are seeking professional and citizen design input to promote awareness of the Community Action Plan and to assist in visualizing a greener Orlando. The proposals should illustrate how the topics of discussion (economy, energy, food, green building, solid waste, transportation, water and livability) could transform a part or the entire City.

More information regarding the Green Works Orlando Community Action Plan is available at these links:
http://cityoforlando.mindmixer.com/,
http://www.cityoforlando.net/elected/greenworks/index.htm

City Maps:
http://www.cityoforlando.net/gis/pdf/GeneralCityMaps/CityMap11x17General.pdf
http://www.cityoforlando.net/gis/pdf/DowntownCRA/DwntnCRAmap.pdf
http://www.cityoforlando.net/gis/pdf/TraditionalCity.pdf

Participation and Eligibility:
Anyone 18 and older– local, national, and international – may enter the competition. Entries will be accepted from  groups or individuals. Architects, planners, landscape architects, design professionals, artists, citizens, and students over 18 who are creative and advocates for a sustainable future of the City of Orlando are all encouraged to participate. Limit one entry per person or team. City Employees, Green Works Orlando Consultants and Task Force members, or sponsors are ineligible.

Registration:
There is no fee for registration. Once a completed registration form is emailed, a number will be assigned to your submittal. Completed registration form must be emailed by 5 p.m. (EST) March 18, 2013 to receive a registration ID number. (Submittal deadline is April 15th, 2013 . See Timeline below for more details.) Submissions without a registration ID will be disqualified. Applicants must select what category they intend to be judged – General or Student. Only college students or teams registered at a design related educational program are eligible for the Student Excellence category, however, students may choose to be judged in the General category. Each applicant or team can only be judged in one category, but not both.

Submission requirements:
This is a digital competition and hard copy proposals will not be accepted. All submissions must be received by 5 p.m. (EST) to the following address: [email protected].

1. Registration ID number.
2. Up to 2 PDF images, renderings, digital art, drawings, or similar files. File limit 5MB each. Maximum 18”x24” production size. Registration ID number must be included in all file names in the following format: xxxxx_description.pdf.
3. A one-page description of the Vision, with file names in the following format: xxxxx_description.doc
4. Names, logos, or other identification of the Team or Individual shall not be included in images.

Questions:
Questions may be emailed to: [email protected].

Jury:
Larry Scarpa, FAIA
Principal, Brooks + Scarpa Architects

Mark Woodbury, AIA
President of Universal Creative, Universal Parks & Resorts

Task Force Members (TBD)

Awards:
$5000 - 1st Place (General registration),
$1250 - 2nd Place (General registration),
$1250 - Public’s Choice (General registration),
$1500 Student Excellence Award - Sponsored by Society of American Registered Architects (Students registered at a design related educational program are eligible)

Timeline:
February 22, 2013 – Announcement of competition.
February 22- March 18, 2013 – Registration submission period. Registration forms must be emailed by 5 p.m. (EST) on March 18, 2013 to receive a Registration ID number.
April 15, 2013 – Entries are due by 5 p.m. (EST) on Monday, April 15, 2013. Submissions will be posted on the City of Orlando Green Works Orlando website for public input.
April 22-26, 2013 – Jury review. Public’s Choice review.
May 2013 – Winners announced.
Summer 2013 –Visions will be integrated into the Community Action Plan,  Green Works Orlando website and promotional items.

Ownership:
Any and all materials and ideas submitted as part of a competition entry, including but not limited to drawings, renderings, photographs, photocopies, digital files, ideas and derivative works, shall become the sole and exclusive property of the City of Orlando. The City shall own and have the sole and exclusive right to use, copy, distribute, translate, modify, display and prepare derivative works of entries, as well as the right to authorize such uses by others. The City shall have the right to obtain and to hold in its own name, copyrights, registrations or other such protection as may be appropriate to the subject matter, and any extensions and renewals thereof.
To the extent that an entry is not selected as a winner, ownership of entries shall revert to the applicable submitting Competitor, except that all Competitors shall grant to the City a worldwide, perpetual, royalty-free, exclusive license to use and/or reproduce the entry in any way, in any medium now known or hereafter devised, for any purpose, including but not limited to publication, exhibition, and archive of the competition. The City will make reasonable efforts to credit competitors at all times.
By submitting an entry, competitors certify that the materials and ideas submitted to the competition are original and have not been previously published. Competitors additionally certify and that neither their entry, nor the use thereof, violates, infringes or otherwise conflicts with any copyright, trademark or property right of any third party.
Competitors acknowledge that the City and its partners may exhibit all competition entries in an online gallery, and a selection of competition entries may be chosen for physical exhibition and/or public display, or be published with the Community Action Plan document in physical form or digital document following the announcement of the winners. The City will make reasonable efforts to notify competitors of any public exhibition or display entries through correspondence with the primary contact listed on the registration form.