SEED Awards: Public Interest Design Competition

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
(Free-Press-Release.com) December 12, 2011 -- The SEED Network launches the 2nd Annual SEED AWARDS for excellence in PUBLIC INTEREST DESIGN to showcase and promote projects that help create socially, economically, and environmentally healthy communities. The projects will be judged using "SEED": Social Economic Environmental Design”® a standard evaluation to measure the positive impact of design projects.

Six WINNERS will be announced January 27, 2012. Each winner will receive an all-expense paid trip to present at Structures for Inclusion conference at the University of Austin in Austin, Texas March 24-25, and a $1,000 cash prize. Each winning project will also be included in a documentary series by The UpTake.

STRUCTURES FOR INCLUSION (SFI) is the twelfth conference in an annual series covering the role of architects as change agents in overcoming the most pressing social, economic and environmental challenges in the world today. SFI goes beyond the “green” design movement to include the social and economic impacts of design. The first conference was held at Princeton University in 2000 and was called “Design for the 98% without Architects.”

SFI 12 will bring together design professionals and students, community activists and non-profit organizations alike in an intense two day discussion, March 24 and 25.

The SEED Competition is being organized by the Social Economic Environmental Design Network, founded in 2005 through support of the Harvard Loeb Fellowship.

The APPLICATION DEADLINE for Parts I A&B is MIDNIGHT, January 16, 2012.

Entries will be judged by this year’s distinguished JURY:

OPEN CATEGORY: Bryan Bell, Barbara Brown Wilson, Michael Gatto, Sarah Gamble.
ACADEMIC CATEGORY: Michael Zaretsky, Lisa Abendroth, Jeff Hou, Sharon Haar, John Folan.

To learn more about how to REGISTER for the Public Interest Design Competition, go to http://www.designcorps.org/sfi/register. The $25.00 application fee will also count as registration for attending the Structures for Inclusion Conference in March.

For more information, go to http://www.designcorps.org/sfi or contact:

Bryan Bell, Executive Director

Design Corps
919-637-2804
2243 The Circle
Raleigh, NC 27608

Competition SPONSORS : The Surdna foundation, The College of Fellows of the American Institute of Architects' Latrobe Prize, and The Fetzer Institute.

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