By the City / For the City: Call for Submissions

Posted by core jr | 7 Jun 2011 | Comments (0)

In conjunction with the first-ever Urban Design Week in New York City this September, the Institute for Urban Design has opened a call for submissions for "By the City / For the City," inviting designers to tackle crowdsourced suggestions about the future of the city. Earlier this year, they asked New Yorkers what they would improve about the city they call home; now it's designers' turn to answer the call:

New Yorkers shared hundreds of ways that they think the city's public realm could be designed to make it smarter, more beautiful and livable, and now we're asking architects, designers, artists and urbanists to respond to their challenge!

Where the New Museum's was centered around New York's downtown creative culture, By the City / For the City takes a broader scope, sourcing ideas from all five boroughs, from restoring hidden local treasures to more broader city-level projects.

From June 1st to July 14th, 2011, you can peruse more than 500 ideas submitted by the general public for improving the city's public spaces, systems, and social fabric...

You can respond to one idea or combine several across a neighborhood, borough, or the entire city. Whatever your interests, By the City / For the City enables you to find a challenge somewhere in the five boroughs that inspires you and share your vision for improving the city with urban luminaries and New Yorkers of every stripe.

From a call to fix dangerous intersections in Brooklyn, to a borough-wide demand for a more enjoyable public realm in the Bronx, and all the way up to suggestions for implementing a comprehensive system of rooftop gardens, the ideas collected from the public cover a wide range of issues across every scale and corner of the city, from the pragmatic to the fanciful...

Entries to By the City / For the City will be evaluated by how they address five qualities in New York City's public realm: Connectivity, Beauty, Enjoyment, Accessibility, and Equity... Ten winners to receive $500 prizes; [one] in each of the five boroughs, and [five at the jury's] discretion. As many entries as possible will be featured in a publication, the Atlas of Possibility for the Future of New York, and exhibition during the first-ever Urban Design Week festival in New York City from September 15-20, 2011.