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Winter Stations is an international design competition held annually in Toronto, Canada. Since 2015, we've invited artists, architects, designers, and students to reimagine lifeguard stations as interactive public art installations, transforming city beaches into an open-air exhibition each winter.
This ideas competition is an initiative of the Faculté de l'aménagement of the Université de Montréal, designed to stimulate ideation and mobilize the creativity of young designers on the important theme of universal design. The competition is anonymous, multidisciplinary and internationally open to all university students, as well as all those who graduated less than a year ago, particularly in the fields of design, architecture and landscape architecture. This competition is not a project competition: it is an ideas competition.
Projects submitted should not propose simple technical adjustments to a building, but rather transformative ideas that offer inclusive and equitable experiences for all users.
The Toronto Public Space Committee is launching a global ideas competition to imagine the future of public washrooms in Toronto. We invite you to propose design ideas for inclusive and innovative public washrooms to help advocate and spread awareness for the urgent need of a robust public washroom network in our city.
The Canadian Academy of Architecture for Justice (CAAJ) invites architecture students to speculate on issues ranging from the influx of highly addictive drugs to the suppression of Indigenous culture to an ever-increasing need for mental health care facilities in a design competition for a new community-oriented building that helps to fill a gap. This involves the selection of a site in a community of the competitor's choice, identification of the specific crisis (or crises) being addressed, and the development of an architectural or urban design solution.
Design submissions will be evaluated by a jury of justice experts, architects and industry professionals. Participants are highly encouraged to explore a wide spectrum of architectural responses from functional and practical at one end to philosophical and social at the other, including ways in which the building integrates into the community, and acts as a catalyst for building positive relationships with the community it serves.
