The V URBAN REGENERATION FORUM – BIA 2022 has launched the IV BIA SKETCH contest entitled:
Invisible cities: Inhabit – Habitat – Inhabitant
The aim is for citizens of any age to use their sketches and drawing to capture their interpretation of their surroundings as an inhabitant of a territory, a city, or a rural or urban environment. That city as a living space in sight and made up of human beings.
The city as the sum of the lives of its inhabitants, as the sum of personal invisible cities.
Scope of the contest: Bilbao/Bizkaia
Contestants:
Anybody wishing to use this medium to express their vision of the subject of the contest may enter.
Neither the organiser’s employees nor of its marketing and/or promotion suppliers may take part in this contest or win a prize.
Categories:
There are four categories:
- 6 to 12 years old
- 13 to 18 years old
- 19 to 65 years old
- Over 65 years old
Deployment and presentation
Dates:
– Stamping of sketch books, Friday 4 November 2022
Time: 10.00 to 18.00 hours
Contestants shall collect their stamped sketch books from the BIA 2022 offices, in the Delegation in Bizkaia of the Basque-Navarre Institute of Architects located at Alameda Mazarredo 69 in Bilbao.
– Collection of the sketchbooks, Monday 14 November 2022
Time: 10.00 to 18.00 hours.
Contestants shall hand in their stamped sketch books from the BIA 2022 offices, in the Delegation in Bizkaia of the Basque-Navarre Institute of Architects located at Alameda Mazarredo 69 in Bilbao.
Tecnique: Free
Prizes*
In each category there are 2 prizes + special public prize:
- 4 first prizes to the best drawing sketchbook, one per category: €600
- 4 first prizes to the best drawing, one per category: €350
- 1 Public’s Choice special prize to the best drawing sketchbook overall: €250
*If the winner is a minor, the Prize will not be in cash, but its equivalent value in a voucher to buy stationery or books.
Public’s choice special prize
All the entered sketchbooks will be exhibited on the biarchitecture.org from 12 January 2023. The public can vote electronically from that website until 12 February 2023.
Jury
The Jury will be made up of three members, drawing teachers, painters or other leading professionals. The Jury may not decide not to award the prizes, unless there are no entries, and may likewise name up to two runners-up. The decision of the Jury shall be final. Under no circumstances may a single contestant be awarded two prizes, even though their work may be highlighted with a mention.
The entries will be exhibited in the BIA SPACE at the Delegation in Bizkaia of the Basque-Navarre Institute of Architects, Alameda Mazarredo 69, Bilbao.
Prize-giving
The prize-giving will take place in March 2023.
Submitted works
All the drawings and sketchbooks entered shall remain the property of the Delegation in Bizkaia of the Basque-Navarre Institute of Architects, which may publish or reproduce, distribute, transform them or use them for any public communication act, with no limitation of time or place. The authors therefore surrender to the Delegation in Bizkaia of COAVN all the exploitation rights of the drawings and sketchbooks entered in the contest.
Comments
The authors are responsible for the authorship and originality of the entered works, guaranteeing that there are no third-party rights on them, and shall be liable for any claim brought regarding image rights. The authors undertake to hold the Delegation in Bizkaia harmless.
The fact of entering implies the full acceptance of these terms and conditions. The Delegation in Bizkaia of the Basque-Navarre Institute of Architects shall rule on all aspects not envisaged in these terms and conditions.