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International Design Competition
Registration: August 29, 2011 – January 20, 2012
Submission Deadline: February 3, 2012
The City of Sebastopol, California,

together with the Redwood Empire Chapter of the American Institute of Architects (AIA) and a group of local business sponsors, is hosting an international design competition to generate innovative ideas for renewing the city center. The overarching intent is to explore how the physical presence of the city can become a more economically thriving and aesthetically vibrant place reflective of the natural beauty of the region, and the character of the community. Submissions will explore the ways a small, northern California city can transition from its agricultural past to a lively and sustainable future.

The community seeks a cohesive vision for its long-term future. This is an ideas competition. Proposals may be innovative and challenging, and should also present viable ways to implement real, holistic change. Successful designs will generate public discourse about the direction of the town’s future, and assist community leaders in plotting its course.

Awards: International Design Contest Core Project
This will be a juried competition with cash prizes. There will be a public exhibition, and online publication of top award winners. A follow-up forum to determine possible implementation of design ideas is scheduled in 2012. Cash prizes to be awarded at the sole discretion of the jury.

Eligibility: International Design Contest Core Project
Entrants from diverse disciplines are invited to participate, including professional and student architects, landscape architects, developers, engineers, urban planners, transportation planners, students, and artists. Multidisciplinary, collaborative design teams are strongly encouraged.

Terms & Conditions: International Design Contest Core Project
All participants must register to compete through Eventbrite (see Registration page). Please read all submission requirements carefully. Submissions not meeting these requirements will be rejected. Note: The Core Project sponsors are under no obligation to build, use or install any designs resulting from this competition.

International Design Contest Core Project ELIGIBILITY
The Core Project is an open competition. Student and professional architects, urban designers/planners, landscape architects, engineers, developers, and artists may enter. Multi-disciplinary teams and an integrated design approaches are encouraged, although individuals may enter.

Every competitor, juror, consultant and other assistants involved in the organization of this competition automatically declares their compliance with the conditions and procedures set forth here by virtue of taking part in, or assisting with the process of this competition.

DEADLINE: International Design Contest Core Project
All submissions must be received by 5:00pm PST Friday February 3, 2012. This is an electronic submittal. Entries shall be uploaded to the contest ftp site. See Registration page for instructions.
If you have any questions, you may email them to info@the-core-project.org through January 27, 2012.

LATE SUBMISSIONS
Submissions received after 5:00pm PST on Friday, February 3, 2012 will be considered late entries. Late entries will be disqualified from the competition.

ANONYMITY
Competitors will be assigned an order number, the last 8 digits of which will serve as their registration number upon registering and paying the registration fee. Submissions may only have the registration number; submissions may not have any name or mark or number that could identify the project or competitor.

No participant may directly or indirectly reveal the identity of any design or communicate with any member of the Jury or competition sponsors. By submitting a proposal, each competitor automatically affirms compliance with the competition requirements, rules and guidelines and agrees that any violation will result in immediate disqualification from consideration.

AWARDS, ANNOUNCEMENTS, DISPLAYS, EXHIBITIONS AND PUBLICATIONS
Citations and awards will be awarded at the determination of the Jury. Cash prizes will be awarded at the discretion of the Jury.

Competitors, by virtue of their submissions, recognize the competition’s program as the intellectual property of The Core Project and agree that the sponsors and partners may reproduce, publish, exhibit, perform, transmit or otherwise utilize the electronic materials submitted for non-commercial purposes at their own discretion and without compensation to the competitor.

Registrants and all team members, upon entering the competition, agree to credit The Core Project by name in any subsequent exhibition or publication of the project. The sponsors and partners reserve the right to utilize a competitor’s submission for purposes of exhibition and publication or other non-commercial purpose. Reasonable and best efforts will be made to credit the competitor for use of their submission materials for such purposes.

INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY
To the extent that an entry is selected as a winner, the entrant grants to the competition sponsors all rights in regards to publication, exhibition, and construction of a full-scale mock-up.

Entrants retain ownership of entries, except that all entrants shall grant a worldwide, perpetual, royalty-free, exclusive license to use and/or reproduce the entry in any way, in any medium now known or hereafter devised, for any purpose, including but not limited to publications, exhibitions, and an archive of the competition. The sponsors will make reasonable efforts to credit entrants at all times.

By submitting an entry, entrants certify that the materials and ideas submitted to the competition are their own original work. Entrants additionally certify that neither their entry, nor the use thereof, violates, infringes or otherwise conflicts with any copyright, trademark or property right of any third party.

Entrants acknowledge that The Core Project sponsors may exhibit all competition entries in an online gallery and a selection of competition entries may be chosen for physical exhibition and/or public display.

INELIGIBILITY
No partner, associate, or employer/employee of a Jury member may participate. Additionally, no member of the Jury shall be eligible to compete in the competition, assist a competitor, or act in any other capacity whatsoever to advise or aid a competitor in the development or presentation of his or her submission.

The Organizers may exclude and declare ineligible any submission which: has been delivered/dispatched after the time limit; is incomplete in its essential elements; or violates any provisions of the competition description and conditions. By entering this competition, competitors will be declaring that the designs in their submission have been developed solely for the purposes of this competition and represent no infringement on any existing copyright or patent.

DISQUALIFICATION
Competitors shall not communicate, in any manner whatsoever, with a member of the Jury regarding this competition. Likewise, no member of the Jury shall communicate to a competitor any matter relating to the competition.

Competitors who fail to observe the provisions of these conditions shall be declared ineligible. The decision of The Core Project, in respect to any such disqualification shall be final and binding on all competitors.

International Design Contest Core Project website: http://the-core-project.org/the-core-project