SOCIO DESIGN
Submission: 20 March 2009
Between Architecture and Sociology is the recognition of spatial impact on the psyche of society. To understand this impact fully is perhaps impossible. But to understand that it exists is the opportunity to use design to change the world.
International Student Design Competition
Intent: To encourage social change through design-based dialogue.
Questions: How are prisons used by societies?
What is their effect on those societies, their caretakers, and their occupants?
Challenge: Design a philosophy on what imprisonment is or should be, and create an architectural design to express that philosophy.
Registration: 21 November 2008
Submissions: 6 February-20 March 2009