Registration Deadline: May 22 (Early Registration deadline March 11)
Submission Deadline: May 22

The repercussions of economic displacement impact families, neighborhoods, schools, and the very fabric of the city, reinforcing models of exclusion and marginalization while exacerbating inequities. With this challenge of resisting displacement comes the opportunity to propose a new set of ideas to support and foster a plural city at multiple scales. As such, this challenge is intended to collect design proposals spanning from the scale of the city, to neighborhood, to block, building, intersection, or sidewalk. Judges will look for proposals that introduce innovative ideas with the potential to address the wicked problem of displacement and contribute to the plural city.

The competition’s objective is to envision the design of an imaginative, sustainable, viable resource exchange in an area threatened by economic displacement and homogenization. Submission ideas can focus on a range of scales and methods, such as innovate material use, sustainable construction, individual structures, infrastructure, neighborhood design, and tactical urbanism.