In­ter­na­tio­n­al de­sign and land­s­cap­ing com­pe­ti­tion to re-de­sign the port area in Magde­burg within the In­ter­na­tio­n­al Build­ing Ex­hi­bi­tion 2010

Re­struc­tur­ing the trade port in­to a sci­ence port with in­no­va­tion and knowl­edge trans­fer

Plan­n­ing teams com­pris­ing ar­chi­tects / town plan­n­ers and land­s­cape ar­chi­tects / open space plan­n­ers who are li­censed to prac­tice as such in their home coun­try may ap­p­ly to take part. A distin­guished ju­ry will se­lect twelve plan­n­ing teams from among the ap­pli­cants to com­pete. Th­ese teams should have a track re­cord of ex­pe­ri­ence in the de­vel­op­ment and cre­a­tion of public built-up and open spaces.

Ev­ery town par­ti­ci­pat­ing in the Ur­bact II pro­gram, RE­DIS, will be giv­en an op­por­tu­ni­ty to nom­i­nate a qual­i­fied plan­n­ing team for par­ti­ci­pa­tion in the com­pe­ti­tion. The nom­i­nat­ed plan­n­ing teams will be in­vit­ed to take part by the ci­ty of Magde­burg.

Prizes

A to­tal of Eu­ro 63.500 is avai­l­able for fees and prize mon­ey. Th­ese amounts are in­clu­sive of VAT.

Pre­sen­ta­tion

Each com­pet­ing team shall be pro­vid­ed with three ex­hi­bi­tion pan­els mea­sur­ing 1000 mm x 1000mm (height x width) on which to pre­sent their en­tries. Conse­quent­ly, en­tries can be ex­hibit­ed on a max­i­mum of three sheets. En­trants are ad­vised to pre­sent their work on three sheets with max­i­mum di­men­sions of 900×900 mm each.

The re­sults will be pre­sent­ed in April 2010 at IBA: Ur­ban Re­de­vel­op­ment 2010, with an ex­hi­bi­tion, a publi­ca­tion and a col­lo­qui­um.

Pro­ce­dure

The ci­ty of Magde­burg shall ex­pect those plan­n­ing teams in­vit­ed to take part to sub­mit a bind­ing dec­la­ra­tion of their par­ti­ci­pa­tion by late May, to­gether with their ac­cep­tance of the terms of the com­pe­ti­tion.

A col­lo­qui­um shall be held in Magde­burg dur­ing the ini­tial pe­ri­od of the com­pe­ti­tion, from 15 to 17 June 2009. Par­ti­ci­pa­tion in the com­pe­ti­tion is in part con­di­tio­n­al up­on at­ten­dance at this col­lo­qui­um. Each plan­n­ing team must be rep­re­sent­ed by at least one per­son.

The ci­­ty of Magde­burg shall bear the costs of at­ten­­dance at the open­ing col­lo­qui­um launch­ing the com­pe­ti­tion by one team from ev­ery ci­tiy in­­­volved in the RE­DIS pro­­gram. This shall cov­­er trav­elling and overnight ac­­com­­mo­­da­­tion ex­pen­s­es for two rep­re­sen­­ta­­tives per plan­n­ing team in ac­­cor­­dance with EU reg­u­la­tions as ap­­pli­­ca­ble in the case of the RE­DIS pro­­gram.

3/3/2009 In­for­ma­tion about the com­pe­ti­tion sup­plied to ci­ties in the RE­DIS pro­gramme; in­vi­ta­tion for sub­mis­sions dis­cussed

8/4/2009 Pre­lim­i­nary meet­ing of the judges (Dis­cus­sion of the in­vi­ta­tion for sub­mis­sions with the judges)

30/4/2009 Ci­ties in the RE­DIS pro­gramme nom­i­nate plan­n­ing teams who are to be in­vit­ed to com­pete

8/5/2009 In­vi­ta­tion for sub­mis­sions is­sued

29/5/2009 Bind­ing dec­la­ra­tion of par­ti­ci­pa­tion by agen­cies and/or con­sor­tia

29/5/2009 Par­ti­ci­pants may sub­mit writ­ten en­quiries about the com­pe­ti­tion

15/ – 17/6/2009 Open­ing col­lo­qui­um with par­ti­ci­pants and judges; Q&A ses­sion

30/10/2009 Sub­mis­sion of com­pe­ti­tion en­tries