Judging Method

Entries must be received by
October 17 (Tue), 2017.
Note: Only entries sent by post will be accepted. No deliveries by hand or motorbike courier.

Entry is open broadly to applicants regardless of where they live, in Japan or abroad. Entries can be made as a group or as an individual.

Applicants must first register using the registration form on the competition website. A registration number will be issued by e-mail after the registration form is properly completed. Each applicant should record and save this registration number, as it will be needed for submitting your proposal.

- Once registration numbers are issued no inquiries about them will be accepted.
- In the case of multiple entries, each proposal must be separately registered.
- Registrations can only be made on the competition’s website.
- Please re-register if any changes should occur in your registered information.
- Entrants who register a mobile phone mail address may have problems receiving the reply mail notification of registration number.

Documents:
Use a single A1-size (594 x 841mm) sheet of paper printed on one side only in landscape orientation. Avoid using tracing paper or other thin paper as it may tear when the proposal is opened. Proposals in frames or on panels will not be accepted. Also, please submit a CD-R or DVD-R containing a PDF file having the same content as your entry proposal. Name the file as “registration number.pdf” (example: 00186.pdf).

Content:
Establish an arbitrary existing place as your premise. Be sure to describe the place and kind of city it is in. Method of expression, whether a plan, perspective, sketch, CG or photograph of a model, is unrestricted. Materials having three-dimensional features (roughness or protuberances) will not be accepted.

Language:
Japanese or English.

Notation of registration number:
Front: Print your registration number in 30-point or larger font size at the right, below your drawing or picture. (Note: Only registration number, please. Do not include other information identifying the entrant.)

Back: Leave blank

Inquiries:
Inquiries concerning the theme will not be accepted. Matters not covered in these requirements are left to the discretion of the entrants.

“Urban Public Space Design Competition 2017 ” Shinkenchiku-sha Co., Ltd.,
Kasumigaseki Building 17F, 3-2-5, Kasumigaseki, Chiyoda-ku, Tokyo 100-6017 Japan
Tel. +81-3-6205-4382

Late November 2017
Prize-winners will be notified and also announced on the competition’s website.

Date: December 16 (Sat), 2017
Venue: Tokyo
Note: Venue and time will be announced on the website.
Note: Prize-winners will be paid for transportation to the judges’ appraisals & awards ceremony. For residents of Japan, one representative per entry will receive actual costs. For participants from abroad, one representative per entry will receive 100,000 yen. Payment will be made when prize money is awarded after the final screening.

- Entry works will not be returned.
- Changes cannot be made to registered proposals. If changes are to be made, please re-register the proposal.
- Entries must not infringe on the rights of any third party, including copyright, patent, utility model rights, trademark, trade secret, portrait rights, publicity rights, defamation, and privacy rights.
- Copyrights to works submitted in this competition will belong to the entrant, but the organizers will bear the right to announce the winning works.
- The entrant shall bear all responsibility for copyright infringement or other problems arising after the awarding. In the case of such occurring, the award may be taken back at the organizer’s discretion.