EDAW AECOM is seeking submissions for its first sponsored competition, the EDAW Student Competition (ESC), in order to look at the range of interventions required to stabilise these challenged urban communities in an increasingly unstable and uncertain environment.
- What are the pressures/problems facing a specific urban site? How are these affected by global climate and sustainability issues?
- What are the creative solutions to address these problems, which may include greater public regulation, stimulating private investment, community-based action or voluntary sector initiatives?
Consistent with EDAW's approach, responses should demonstrate a holistic approach to tackling these urban problems, and should not be limited exclusively to design responses. Though much of EDAW's work is response to formal planning processes, for this competition responses should focus on both formal and informal processes that can bring about change.
For their identified location, Entrants should identify innovative and exemplary interventions which will positively engage with informal processes, stabilise communities and achieve lasting improvements in quality of life and opportunity. Responses should consider solutions that respond both to the way in which the site is managed or governed and also the physical issues of how it has been created or evolved. Entrants will be considering substantive issues for which there is unlikely to be a perfect solution. Great challenges, however, deserve profound responses, and the judging panel will be looking for creative and insightful submissions that consider new ways of tackling these issues.