The Institute of Design at The Oslo School of Architecture and Design announces a fully funded PhD position for the period 2021-2024/2025 with a research theme of digital aesthetics. The aim of the PhD research is to contribute to a contemporary discourse on aesthetics for and in design research, education and practice. Application deadline is February 28^th.

On 23rd February 2021 at 17:00—18:30 CET (90 min), BEDA (The Bureau of European Design Association) will be holding a BEDA Wide Open Doors and welcome members of the global design education network Cumulus and their Secretary General Eija Salmi to join for an exchange of views and inputs on the New European Bauhaus.

Lunawood Urban Challenge 2021 calls on all architecture and design students to re-imagine and redesign urban environments by using Lunawood Thermowood. The participant chooses an existing non-renewable urban space to redesign by embracing the possibilities of Lunawood Thermowood. Entrants can freely implement their wildest dreams and imagination to create a more natural – yet still modern – environment for urban people.

The Foodicons Challenge will develop a cooperatively-built visual language for over 500 core concepts to explain our food system. Final selections will be publicly released at the UN Food Systems Summit in 2021, then posted permanently on The Noun Project as a free resource for all to use.

Like each year, this year too NID Ahmedabad will be organizing Open Electives 2021 from 05 to 16 April 2021 which due to the prevailing circumstances, workshops will be conducted through remote facilitation, situational learning and online interaction.

Titled ‘Normative Futures’, this year’s Open Electives 2021 will focus on the question ‘Is the pandemic the paradoxical-pause which the planet’s inhabitants needed, or is it a provocation to make us stop in our heels, reflect, rethink and come together to redefine human civilization?’

‘GENSAI’ refers to the mitigation of damage or casualties caused by disasters. This competition has been held annually since 2011, seeking ideas and designs to promote ‘GENSAI’, the disaster mitigation. For this 10th year, the theme is “Gensai design in the age of living with COVID-19”, given that our world is now facing this crisis from the viewpoint of disaster mitigation.