COMPETITION

How do we build cohesive and sustainable communities? How are changing climate, pandemics and new technologies affecting the ways we live, work, learn, travel, and generally interact with each other?

IS ABOUT...

How have advances in technology affected the relevance of Griffin’s proposals? What are the lessons from the past? Can technology provide answers for the challenges of living in a changing world? What present and future technologies can assist?

Walter and Marion Griffin imagined a place where natural and built environments exist in perfect balance. Is it still our collective goal? What do we learn from the past? What are the opportunities and challenges?

Can we afford to live in better places? Is happier and safer life of better quality profitable?Can citizens build their own’ better place’ independent of the official State and local land and development governance? How do we achieve affordability of life?

Can we measure the performance of our homes, buildings, neighbourhoods, communities, towns? How do we determine what is a ‘better place’? Should we rely on legislation for determining better design?

SOCIAL

URBAN

ECONOMICS

ENVIRONMENT

TECHNOLOGY

Timeline

Launch of competition 19th Nov'20

Briefing/Presentations 1st Dec -12th Dec'20

Mentoring Sessions 18th Jan - 30th Jan'21

Deadline for Submissions 15th Feb'21 (C.O.B)

Announcement of Winners 5th Mar'21

Submissions

Minimum:

- One A1 equivalent electronic page with appropriate drawings (plans, sections, 3D visualizations)

- Narrative about research findings in individual roles of not more than 5 pages per role

- Live presentation to the judges of 15-20 min maximum

- Both should cover results of research of all team members, their multidisciplinary roles

Additional

- Other additional means of presentation, animations, video that best explain the ideas, are encouraged

What is in it for you?

Presentations and talks from experts on their sphere of specialty: Griffin’s Heritage and relationship with Australian natural environment; basic information on advances of various aspects of urban infrastructure; basic information on Net Zero projects and goals and beyond Zero tendencies; basic information on current planning framework for the village of North Arm Cove and its community.

Experience working in an interdisciplinary team, solving real life problems.

One on One Mentoring sessions for individual teams in final stages before finalising their submissions.

Recognition, rewards, and opportunities for engagement with the industry for furthering careers.

All submissions will be published online.

Best entries will be offered opportunity in shaping future conversations on international level through the 2021.

All participants will receive certificate of participation and all submissions will be published in online competition proceeds.

& CASH PRIZE

Judgement Criteria

INNOVATION

Innovation quality that respond to the competition objectives and highlight new ideas and approaches to building future cities.

DESIGN

Design quality with new approaches to the development of architectural/urban form.

INDIVIDUAL

Individual Contribution – quality of the individual role within the team.

RESEARCH

Research comprehensiveness –addressing a wide a range of factors affecting urban development.

FEASABILITY

Feasibility solutions demonstrating understanding of economic forces.

CLARITY

Clarity of presentation – understandable and well-illustrated graphically.

SUSTAINABILITY

Sustainability approach – addressing energy efficiency and other environmental factors.

COLLECTIVE

Collective Effort where each of the issues (environmental, urban form, economic, infrastructure and social) has been examined with the nexus to others.