Architects for Health invite architectural students to submit projects to be considered for the third annual Student Healthcare Design Award 2010. The aim of Architects for Health is to promote and campaign for better healthcare environments through bringing together individuals and organisations who share an interest in excellence in the planning and design of healthcare facilities. As in previous years any project relating to the design of a healthcare building can be submitted, however the 2010 competition introduces a greater emphasis on the sample brief – Designing for Death: Hell, Purgatory and Paradise and a specific prize will be awarded for the most successful response to the sample brief we have prepared. IntroductionArchitects for Health is a non-profit making organisation for architects, and anyone interested in the design and planning of healthcare facilities. Its inception in 1992 was a response to the considerable strategic change in the health sector. Since then, AfH have grown into an established organisation with a membership list of around 500 for whom it provides a national network of support, the means to influence policy and as a forum for new ideas.

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ONE Off, supported by the Torino Chamber of commerce and in collaboration with the International Food Design Society and the London Metropolitan University publishes its sixth edition of the Food design® competition. The aim of the competition is spreading, promoting and fostering design culture through projects that re-interpret customs and functions linked with food. In particular the shaping of new behavioural models, new rituals and habits combining the materials with colours, flavours and inspirations. Research and experimentation are brought forward on the theme of food, of its packaging and of its use. They stimulate the quest for new functional solutions which must also be sustainable and flexible. ObjectiveFood, one among the most ancient forms of expression, pliable element by definition and source of creative inspiration becomes the protagonist of the project. Projects can be developed around the two classical themes of Food design or based on a third, more specific, brief:

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Reebok is asking you to imagine, design, and tell them what they could do for women other than sports shoes, clothes, accessories, equipment, training classes & sports clubs. No limit to your creativity! The target is 18-25 years old women (and on a larger scale 18-35) who are individualistic, active, feminine, practicing individual sports. Keeping in mind the brand’s territory – “Having fun staying in shape” – & tone – fun, provocative and bold – create a design, sketch, drawing, picture, text or description of the new product Reebok could come up with on the market that would appeal to women.

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