The Department of Economic Development (DOED) of the Taipei City Government has recently kicked off the 2013 Taipei International Design Award. The organizers are looking for innovative works in the categories “Industrial Design”, “Visual Communication Design” and “Public Space Design”. They would like to encourage using design to improve the city’s economic, social, environmental, and cultural development by providing its users with a safer, harmonious, and more convenient lifestyle – that’s the goal of the 2013 Taipei International Design Award. Entries can be submitted individually or as a group with up to five members. There is no limit to the number of entries.

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The Center for Art and Urbanistics / Zentrum für Kunst und Urbanstik (ZKU) currently has an open call for its 2013/2014 research and residency program. It welcomes artists, scholars and practitioners (curators, activists, autodidacts, etc.) interested in cross-disciplinary theory and practice dealing with ‘the city’. The ZKU offers a space for ‘living & work’: furnished accommodation with mostly private bathroom, studio, wifi, communal facilities, shared and private production areas, a platform open to public events, lectures, performance and presentations. Artists should be working professionally in their fields, with a broad range of projects and exhibition experience and scholars are expected to have attained a level equivalent to a master’s degree, and preferably to have some years of professional experience. Practitioners should have a broad range of professional experience in their fields.

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