Organizer

International Union of Architects (UIA)

Location

Global (Participants select their own site)

Deadline

• Registration Deadline: 07/11/2025
• Submission Deadline: 07/11/2025

Competition Category

• Catalysts of Resilience
• Spatial interventions for vulnerable places
• Using time as a design strategy

Eligibility

• Any full-time registered students (individual or team) from all over the world .
• Authors or co-authors must be students of architecture, landscape architecture, urban design or urban planning .
• Multidisciplinary teams are encouraged, with students from other disciplines as collaborators .

Entry Fee Free (No fees are required for registering)

Prizes/Awards

• 1st prize: 5000€ and a certificate .
• 2nd prize: 4000€ and a certificate .
• 3rd prize: 3000€ and a certificate .
• 4th prize: 2000€ and a certificate .
• 5th prize: 1000€ and a certificate .
• Winners will have free access to the Congress and all travel expenses covered, and their proposals will be part of an exhibition .

Core Introduction

Under the title "Catalysts of Resilience," the competition invites students to design spatial interventions for vulnerable places at risk of future habitational discomfort, inequality, or collapse . It asks students to think beyond conventional design methods, using time as a design strategy to catalyze resilient futures .