IUDI Delhi NCR - City, Culture & Creativity

City Culture &

Creativity IUDI Delhi NCR competition details

City, Culture & Creativity organised by

iudi delhi ncr Institute of Urban Designers India, Delhi NCR Chapter Registered Address: B-10, Maharani Bagh, New Delhi - 110065 Organising Committee Chairman - Vikas Kanojia || Secretary - Nidhi Dandona || Treasurer - Anamika Contact Us Aarushi Gupta || Priyanka Gayen || Navanil Chattopadhyay || Satyajit Mal

iudidncrccc@gmail.com

Introduction

Urban design is about making connections between people and places, movement and the built environment, nature and the built structures. Urban design draws together the many elements of place-making, environmental concerns, social equity and economic viability into the creation of places with distinct beauty and identity. Place-making is the creation of a setting that imparts a ‘sense of place’ to an area which is actively used by people. A place which is open and accessible to all the people qualifies to be a public space.

A person trained as an artist, architect or a designer captures the essence of these places through sketches, paintings and digital graphics through various mediums. IUDI values these visual units or frames and is interested to open an activity to the interested people.

City, Culture & Creativity

“Slice Delhi through the middle and, like an archaeologist’s dream, the strata of the city’s, and India’s, history are revealed. William Dalrymple has tellingly described this discovery as peeling away the layers of an onion, removing each of the city’s seven incarnations before reaching its core – the site of the ancient Pandava city of Indraprastha, founded in the millennium before the birth of Christ; and, even before that, to a sacred legend in which Lord Brahma recovered the sacred knowledge at the very site of Delhi on the river Yamuna.”

The Book of Cities, by Philip Dodd and Ben Donald

From the narrow galis(streets) and bazaars(markets) resonating a typical Indian feel, to the grandeur of the Rajpath leading on to the India Gate with a more Haussmann-ish feel of space; the city has witnessed transitions from the ancient to colonial to the post-colonial structure of city building. It’s a cosmopolitan in the true sense of the term, where people from all over the country and beyond have found a place of their own and continues to do so. It’s a place of cultural integration, ganga-yamuna tehzeeb, along with varying socio-economic conditions. It’s a city, with which everyone would have a different experiential attachment. Thus, Delhi could be easily said as a place stitched together of various living pockets, with different anthropology that essentially grows on you with time, as it has been doing over centuries. It is home.

“Dil-o-Dilli dono agar hai kharab P’a kuchh lutf is ujde ghar mein bhi hai” (My heart and my Delhi may both be in ruins There are still some delights in this withered home) – Mir Taqi Mir

Competition Details

Competition Details Introduction As the world continues to urbanise and globalise, cities are becoming the predominant form of human settlement and the scale at which many of the most pressing societal issues are engaged. Cities are places to explore culture & creativity.

Delhi is very peculiar in multiple ways and takes a lot to get used to – the loudness, roughness and now of course the pollution. On the other side, we have a rich history, arts, culture, diversity and large green spaces.

Themes City Culture & Creativity is art-based competition which encourages to describe your own city of Delhi . . Dilli . . Feel free to be creative about how you tell the story. Your concertina might include sketches/graphics/illustrations of the experience.

You may submit one piece of artwork/graphic works that are based on the themes below.

Theme 1: Nature A quality landscape and a sense of urbanism can, and should, go hand in hand.

By nature, we mean many things; it is the open spaces; parks, maidan, river banks, to the scale of kitchen garden and sparrow’s nest in our todays living conditions. It is water bodies; from rivers, lakes, to the historically indispensable kunds or step wells scattered all around in Delhi. It is parks, small open green spaces commonly found in many of the post-independence designed urban precinct in the city, the wild shrubs that one sees sprouting out at intervals around the road, and at the same time it is also the designated urban green forests found throughout the city. It is also the vast geographical conditions we can see, the chilly winters we feel and the sweltering summers we have lived to, in this city of ours. Let’s not limit ourselves to a certain type of knowledge we have when we hear the word Nature!

Theme 2: Streets Towns exist for interaction. They depend upon movement systems - roads, streets, footpaths and public transport routes, which make urban life possible.

From the galis and kuchas old Delhi to the avenues of New Delhi; from the Fatehpuri Bazaar to the Lajpat Nagar main market; from one edge of the city to another, we would find a street with definite character of the place narrating us stories of the past and present, or at times the future. It would tell us about ways a life on it behaves, how it interacts with us and so on. These connections provide us with a canvas to imagine and rethink spaces in sync with the wider world.

Theme 3: Settlement Settlement refers to the pattern or arrangement of streets, buildings, open space and landscape which make up urban areas. It could be mohallas, katras, havellis or sector planned settlements, gated communities, kothis; regardless of the socio-economic conditions, all these types and many more have a juxtaposition of the similar elements required for being a successful liveable space. Thus, it is the interrelationship between all these elements, rather than their particular characteristics that bond together to make a place. It does not imply any particular kind of urbanism: it applies equally to the centre and to the suburb, and everything in between; and of course it applies equally to the city, the town and the urban village.

Theme 4: Experiential Experiential qualities of space are something which cannot be quantified, or seen at times. They are rather the intangible experiences we gather from a space, which may stimulate the senses. It could relate to us through touch, smell or sound of a particular place. The experience of a place can be heightened by the aromas of a certain coffee, or sounds of wind rustling through, or may be the touch of the dried leaves on an autumn evening while walking on the avenues of Lutyens Delhi.

“Perhaps this dialogue of ours is taking place between two beggars nicknamed Kublai Khan and Marco Polo; as they sift through a rubbish heap, piling up rusted flotsam, scraps of cloth, wastepaper, while drunk on the few sips of bad wine, they see all the treasure of the East shine around them.�

- Kublai Khan Invisible Cities, Italo Calvino

Submission Guidelines

The entries can be in any of the themes mentioned above. The detailed information regarding Medium of Submission, Requirements, Eligibility Criteria and Time line are given below. Please submit the entries before the deadline. Last date of submission is January 05, 2020

Medium of Submission Hand Drawn, Digital, Mixed Medium, Photomontage, Collage, Pen'n'Ink. ( Photographs are not allowed)

Submission Requirements No of Entry: 1 entry per person/team ( Maximum Team Size - 2 members ) Any individual/team who wishes to submit more than one entry shall be charged Rs.500 per extra entry.

Paper Size: Any size of the artwork is acceptable.

File Size & Format of submission: Size of file should not be more than 15mb and at 300px resolution. Format can be PDF/JPEG. Short-listed entrants would be asked to submit higher resolution file of their artworks for printing/exhibition purpose.

Filename format: ENTRYCODE _FULL NAME_ IUDI2020

(eg - CCC09_VIKAS AGARWAL _IUDI2020) Title: All the entries has to be supported with a Title of the Artwork/Graphic.

Eligibility The Competition is open to Designers, Architects, Landscape Architects, Graphic Designers, Artists and Urban Designers (individuals or teams).

Students from the field of Architecture, Planning, Design, Graphic Design & Urban Design (individuals or teams) can also participate in the Competition.

IUDI National Council, IUDI DNCR Executive Committee, the Competition Organizing Committee and their offices and relations are not allowed to participate, in the interest of conducting a fair and unbiased competition.

Timeline Early Bird Registration closes on November 22, 2019 Registration closes on December 20, 2019 Last date of receipt of queries is December 20, 2019 Last date of reply to queries is December 25, 2019 Last date of submission is January 05, 2020 by 11:59pm via email.

Queries For queries write to iudidncrccc@gmail.com

Competition Jury The competition jury comprises of a multi-disciplinary team of professionals, with extensive experience.

Awards + Exhibition Three best schemes shall be awarded a trophy, commendation certificate and prize money.

First prize: 25,000 INR Second prize: 15,000 INR Thrid Prize: 10,000 INR The Awards will be at the sole discretion of the Jury and their decision shall be final and binding.

Registration The non-refundable registration fee for participating in the Design Challenge is as follows, Students – INR 1000/IUDI Members – INR 1500/Other Professionals – INR 2000/Early Bird Registration Closses on 22 November, 2019 Students – INR 700/IUDI Members – INR 1000/Other Professionals – INR 1400/The registration fee is payable to IUDI via NEFT at the following details.

Bank A/C detail: IUDI - DELHI NCR CENTRE Account Number: 605820110000894 Bank: Bank of India IFSC: BKID0006058 Address: Patparganj branch Local shopping centre- II Delhi- 110092 Upon successful payment, participants are to fill out the Online Registration Form, quote the NEFT/Bank Transfer Ref. No. and email the NEFT/Bank Transfer copy to iudidncrccc@gmail.com.

Participants may register for the City Culture & Creativity before 11:59pm, December 20, 2019 via Registration Link.

Registration Code The allotted identification number unique to the participants is to be placed on the Bottom Right Hand corner of the sheets, not more than 1cm in height in Arial font. The identification number will be emailed to the participants after registration.

Registration Link – Google Forms https://forms.gle/Ra2XchVgsL3b6dfF8

Submission Email ID Please submit your entries to iudidncrccc@gmail.com

Anonymity Anonymity of entries will be strictly observed during all stages of the competition by the organizers and jury members. Participants are also advised to abide by the Submission Guidelines to retain anonymity.

Copyright The copyright and ownership of works will remain with the entrants. By submitting a drawing and story to the competition, the entrant gives IUDI permission to display the original art and story at an exhibition to be held at the conclusion and to use scanned copies of the images.

City, Culture & Creativity organised by

iudi delhi ncr

Institute of Urban Designers India, Delhi NCR Chapter Registered Address: B-10, Maharani Bagh, New Delhi - 110065

iudidncrchallenge@gmail.com