More pandemic-related competitions and grant opportunities for architects and designers

With yet another week under ever-evolving pandemic precautions wrapping up, it's time again to take a look at some of the most recent architecture and design challenges added to Bustler's competition database. 

Since pointing out a first wave of pandemic-related briefs in April, we have received more submissions for design competitions and grant opportunities centered around topics of social distancing, working from home, and COVID-19 in general.

Here are, ordered by registration and submission due date, a few of these recent listings.

Design Grant Opportunity to Tackle the Coronavirus Outbreak
Register/Submit Deadline: Friday, May 15, 2020

In support of global efforts to fight the coronavirus pandemic, International Design Awards (IDA) and European Product Design Awards (ePDA) are introducing four special “COVID-19 Design Innovation Grants” worth over $14,000. The two leading industry bodies invite designers and innovators to put their talents to work and find new solutions to combat this global crisis.

Living in Isolation
Registration Deadline: Thursday, May 28, 2020
Submission Deadline: Monday, Jun 1, 2020

The COVID-19 pandemic has presented the world with unprecedented challenges and is impacting our daily lives by restricting our personal movements radically. [...] It encourages us to take a new look at the world we have always taken for granted and to examine our very personal spatial environment with the same curiosity that we might bring to an exotic foreign culture. The Atelier Kopfhoch competition seeks for utopian residential design concepts in a world that is facing unprecedented challenges.

A Sustaining Arts Practice Fund (ASAP Fund) COVID-19 Grants
Register/Submit Deadline: Friday, May 29, 2020

The Pulitzer Arts Foundation and the Sam Fox School of Design & Visual Arts have established A Sustaining Arts Practice Fund (ASAP Fund) to provide relief to practicing artists, architects, and designers who are facing significant financial hardship caused by the COVID-19 pandemic. The ASAP Fund will be distributing fifty $2,000 grants to St. Louis-area creative workers selected through an application process.

Working from Home Competition
Registration Deadline: Monday, Jun 8, 2020
Submission Deadline: Monday, Jun 15, 2020

Working from home competition is the new international contest of ideas promoted by Archistart in order to experiment future visions on the coexistence between living and work. [...] The contest requires the design of the reference apartment, lived by a young couple that, even after the end of the pandemic, decides to work from home (WFH) more frequently.

THE HUMANKIND: AFTER COVID-19
Registration Deadline: Tuesday, Jul 21, 2020
Submission Deadline: Monday, Aug 10, 2020

Propose a visionary project that helps to revive the economy of a region, city or community affected by the COVID-19 outbreak. In a perfect harmony of architecture, economy, and environment, the competition aims to generate visionary ideas that mark the after of the pandemic and inspire different organisations to draw up a “PLAN B” for the world economy.

HEALING - Alternative Designs for Quarantine Cities
Register/Submit Deadline: Saturday, Aug 22, 2020

Our exploration journey will start from a theme zero, a special step in our research program: Pandemic Society. In this competition, we ask you come up with visionary concepts for alternative urban life in relation to the COVID-19 emergency – Only 3 drawings, absolute freedom of scale, site or program. You are asked to reimagine urban life through a variety of creative design concepts and ideas.

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