Calling All Storytellers: Blank Space Launches Seventh Annual Fairy Tales Competition

For the last 6 years, the Fairy Tales competition has captured the imagination of designers and architects around the world. Last year's record breaking competition drew entries from over 60 countries, making the competition once again the largest annual architecture competition in the world. For the seventh year of the competition, Blank Space is proud to partner with ArchDaily, Archinect, and Bustler.

“Each year, we run the Fairy Tales competition — the stakes get higher and higher. Although the prompt has always been the same each year, the entries are more and more engaged with current events and the state of our planet,” says Blank Space founder Francesca Giuliani. “Some of the best entries we have received to the competition in previous years have been incredible stories of caution and warning. This year, we are looking for solutions instead of warnings. We know the issues plaguing our planet — now we are looking to you to solve them.”

Fairy Tales is open to all, and invites architects, designers, writers, artists, engineers, illustrators, students and creatives to submit their own unique architectural fairy tales. A successful entry will craft a text narrative, along with 5 images, in the most spectacular way possible.

Participants can register for a $45 Early Bird Discount until October 17th. Following that, Regular Registration ($60) will be open until November 21st, and Late Registration ($75) until the Submission Deadline on December 19th, 2019.

To register for Fairy Tales 2020 and for more detailed information, please visit: www.blankspaceproject.com

To download a copy of the brief: https://bit.ly/35bDU4B

For any questions please email: competitions@blankspaceproject.com

SCHEDULE

EARLY BIRD REGISTRATION: Until October 17, 2019 ($45)
REGULAR REGISTRATION: Until November 21, 2019 ($60)
LATE REGISTRATION: Until Submission Deadline ($75)
SUBMISSION DEADLINE: December 19, 2019
WINNERS ANNOUNCEMENT: March, 2019 TBA

JURY

ALISON BROOKS Alison Brooks Architects
BEATRIZ COLOMINA Architectural Historian
MANUELLE GAUTRAND Manuelle Gautrand Architecture
ARTHUR MAMOU-MANI Mamou-Mani
GAIL CARSON LEVINE Author
DWAYNE OYLER Oyler Wu Collaborative
JENNY WU Oyler Wu Collaborative
MECKY REUSS Pedro y Juana
ANA PAULA RUIZ GALINDO Pedro y Juana
NICOLÁS MENDOZA RAMOS Fairy Tales 2018 Winner
LORENA CANO ACOSTA Fairy Tales 2018 Winner
ALEXANDER WALTER Archinect & Bustler
BECKY QUINTAL ArchDaily
DAVID BASULTO ArchDaily
MATTHEW HOFFMAN Blank Space
FRANCESCA GIULIANI Blank Space
ANNA CREATURA Blank Space

PRIZES

1ST PRIZE: $2,500
2ND PRIZE: $1,500
3ND PRIZE: $750
HONORABLE MENTIONS: The jury will choose up to 10 honorable mentions.

ABOUT BLANK SPACE

Blank Space is an online platform for architecture, founded in 2013 by Matthew Hoffman and Francesca Giuliani. Matthew is an architect who believes architecture can be more interesting, more fun and more social. Francesca is a journalist who believes that communication is omnipresent, and that good communication helps great ideas change the world.

Through competitions, publications, and projects, we uncover the true power of architecture by creating new opportunities for design to engage the public. We like to think of Blank Space as an office for thought provocation, challenging architecture to rethink its role in society by speaking about things everybody can relate to, in a language understandable to all.