Competition Essentials

1. Eligibility

The competition is open to undergraduate and graduate students at all levels of higher education in all countries of the world.

Levels: Bachelors, Masters, Ph.D. students
Fields of Study: Urban Planning, Urban Design, Architecture, Landscape Architecture, Urban Geography, Sociology, Anthropology, Urban Studies, Environmental Studies, Engineering, Traffic Planning or related fields.

2. Identity

Participation shall not be anonymous; each contribution shall clearly indicate the name(s) of the author(s).

3. Documentation

a. Student ID: Any competitor or group of competitors must prove that they are the bona fide author(s) of the contribution submitted and enclose to that end a copy of their student ID or document stating their academic status as a student. In other words, you have to be enrolled as a student within the timeframe of the competition (i.e. up and prior to the submission date: August 31 August 2007).

b. Faculty: Those advising the competition team in question are to submit a copy of documentation of their status of teacher or advisor.

4. Publication Restrictions

Contributors may not refer to direct copies of projects that have already been implemented or which have been designed on the basis of any agreement entered into by the competitor or competitors with a public, public/private or fully private body with the intention of actual development of the project in question. Similarly, contributions may not refer to direct copies of projects published before the last day of the deliberations of the international jury.

5. Registration

Competitors are invited to send their contributions directly to Copenhagen. There is no advance registration fee. Registration can be carried out online and/or on paper using the entry form that is to be submitted or enclosed with each project, accompanying both drawings and models. The registration is a part of the competition submission.

6. Jury Deliberations

The competition will be evaluated and judged in September 2007 in Copenhagen, Denmark, prior to the Futures of Cities: 51st IFHP World Congress / IFHP 2007 Copenhagen Student Congress.

7. Submission Deadline

Submissions to the competition must be received in Copenhagen no later than 31 August 2007. Entrants should ensure that their contributions are sent in good time, so that they arrive in Copenhagen in good time before 31 August 2007. Any delay is at the entrants’ own risk. The jury will consider only those projects which have been received before judging begins.

a. Postage date: 24 August 2007
b. Arrival date: 31 August 2007

8. Award Ceremony

The results of the judging by the international jury will be announced at the Awards Ceremony on Monday evening, 24 September 2007, at the joint session of the “Futures of Cities” 51st IFHP World Congress and IFHP 2007 Student Congress, which will be held at the Royal Danish Academy of Fine Arts, School of Architecture.

9. Exhibition

All competition submissions, the winning proposals and all other submitted proposals, will be exhibited during the “Futures of Cities” at the School of Architecture at the Royal Danish Academy of Fine Arts in Copenhagen. Each entry will have a minimum display area of 100 cm x 100 cm and a maximum display area of 100 cm x 200 cm (see Layout Guidelines). The exhibition will open with the Awards Ceremony and continue through the autumn of 2007.

10. Competition publication

a. Online: IFHP will publish competition results on-line on the www.ifhp2007copenhagen.dk website.

b. Hard copy: IFHP will publish a report on the international competition, including the international jury’s reports on the 10 best contributions and a summary of the other contributions.

11. Freedom of Expression

As the competition is a contest of ideas and cultural discussion relating to a specific problem and as the choice of locations and problems will vary greatly, the organizers will allow the participants full freedom of expression in the development of their projects. The contributions must be in accordance with the spirit of the competition and competitors may follow their own judgement as to the concept they devise. This will in no way influence the work of the jury.

The participants are free to interpret the theme according to their own ideas and understanding and to express it as they wish, within the strictly defined framework of the competition.

Disclaimer

1. Exclusion

An entry will be excluded from the competition: - if it is received in Copenhagen after the deadline of 31 August 2007. - if any of the general conditions mentioned above are violated.

2. No return

Contributions for the international competition will NOT be returned to the authors. Entrants should ensure that they make the required duplicates, if desired, before sending in their contributions.

3. Rights & Reproduction

All participants agree that IFHP is granted the non-exclusive reproduction rights to all entries for IFHP’s advertising, promotion, exhibition, print publication, and internet purposes.

4. Authenticity

By submitting your entry to IFHP you declare that the entry is your own original work. IFHP will not be responsible for the infringement of any third party rights of the entry, moral or otherwise that may arise as a result of your actions or omissions and that you indemnify IFHP against all legal fees, claims, damages and other expenses that may be incurred as a result of your breach of the IFHP rules.