Il Labyrinth of the Masone, with the patronage of ADI (Industrial Design Association) and AIB (Italian Bamboo Association), has announced the fourth edition of international design competition, which involves the design and construction of a bamboo item.
With this contest the Labyrinth of the Masone, which has one of the main reasons for its originality in bamboo (the Labyrinth, the largest in the world, is entirely made up of about twenty different species of bamboo) focuses attention on the intrinsic characteristics of this extraordinary plant, elegant and with a thousand virtues .
The competition aims to highlight the value of bamboo in achieving international policy goals, including the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) and the commitments under the Paris Agreement on climate change by promoting the use of bamboo for the design of objects for daily use.
The competition therefore aims to be a stimulus to the use of bamboo, favoring a design product for domestic use or intended for public spaces, or even structures such as roofs or galleries.
The project must enhance the technical and aesthetic properties and the expressive potential of bamboo, which can be integrated with other materials. Particular attention will be paid to any technological innovations, also relating to the possible production cycle of the object and the strategy to minimize the impact on the environment.
It is an international competition, which by dividing it into two categories, junior e senior, gives the opportunity to participate both to individual students or in groups, regularly enrolled in high schools of graphics, furniture, design, architecture or design faculties, doctorates, masters and equivalent courses, both to designers, architects, individually or in groups, as well as graduate or graduate employees working in the design and planning sector, artists, creatives.
TO PARTECIPATE
Those wishing to participate have time to register until July 20 2021.
Prize winners will be announced on the website, by the month of September 2021.
The delivery of the prize (cheque) will take place at the Labirinto della Masone during the sixth edition of the "Under the Bamboo Tree" event to be held on 16 and 17 October 2021.
Contact for information and registration
bamboorush@francomariaricci.com
+39 0521 827081
CRITERIA
The object to be designed must enhance the intrinsic characteristics of bamboo. Objects for domestic use, for offices, commercial buildings, schools, hospitals and other public spaces such as:
• Furnishings and furnishing accessories
• Objects for the kitchen and the table
• Coverings for walls, floors, partitions, doors
• Functional elements such as radiators, lamps, lighting systems, switches
• Technical elements such as handles, handrails, taps, plates
• Structures such as roofs, tunnels
It is possible to envisage the combination of several materials for the execution of the object even if the bamboo parts must have a priority role in its realization. The project must enhance the technical and aesthetic properties and the expressive potential of bamboo and must be able to be mass-produced. The evaluation criterion will take into account any technological innovations, also relating to the possible production cycle of the object and the strategy to minimize the impact on the environment. The project must not have an ethnic flavour.
CONDITIONS FOR PARTICIPATION
The competition is divided into two sections:
- Junior intended for students regularly enrolled in high schools of graphics, furniture, design, faculties of architecture or design, doctorates, masters and equivalent courses.
- Senior intended for designers, architects, individuals or in groups, as well as employees with diplomas or graduates operating in the design and planning sector, artists, creatives.
For both categories it is possible to participate both individually and in groups.
