Young Architects Competitions (YAC) is inviting architecture enthusiasts, professionals and students to enter the “Post-Quake Visions” design competition. This is YAC’s second competition, initiated with the aims to offer participants a chance of practicing solid, refined research in of post-seismic design. The competition will result in giving out three (3) main prizes and twelve (12) honorable mentions. The first prize includes 3000 Euro, publication on architectural magazines and websites and an exhibition. With “Post-Quake Visions”, YAC aims to rethink and redesign the quake-inflicted gaps left inside ancient urban tissues. This endeavor pints to revamp such scarred ecosystem undercultural and economical keys, with the goal of finding out urban perspectives and social possibilities once undisclosed or inconceivable. YAC also aims to base this research firstly on reading the wounds the quake left on cities, communities and architectures. By focusing on such vacant spaces, the goal is to insert brand new architecture able to blend ancient heritage with contemporary pace.

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The Japan Media Arts Festival Executive Committee announces the Call for Entries for the 17th Japan Media Arts Festival held in February 2014. The Japan Media Arts Festival is a comprehensive festival of Media Arts (=Media Geijutsu) that honors outstanding works from a diverse range of media – from Animation and comics to media art and games. The festival gives awards in each of its four divisions: Art, Entertainment, Animation, and Manga.

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