International Design Competition – FASHION FOR HOME & MCBW

FASHION FOR HOME promotes furniture designs and designers and incorporates new trends into their range.

Munich Creative Business Week (MCBW) intends to give innovative design activities an international stage.

Design companies from across the world will be on show during the week long multifaceted programme. At the MCBW Design Awards 2012, powered by FASHION FOR HOME, the most talented up-and-coming interior designers, architects, furniture and industrial designers will be discovered. Winners will be selected in three categories during MCBW at the beginning of February, 2012 and presented to

the public in a special exhibition.

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Design Internship in partnership with HP

The Graduate Academy has up for grab 50 internship placements in partnership with HP.

Students are set a brief to answer, with the best 100 graduates shortlisted (click here to download the brief).

Students should use their skills to show HP how they would solve the problem.  Click here to find out more.  Students can collaborate with others to make the design as great as possible and if it’s selected the winers  will be invited onto The Graduate Academy.

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BUILD BACK CHRISTCHURCH. THE WORK OF AFH AUCKLAND.

In the first of a series of articles from New Zealand Bobby Shen of the Auckland Chapter of Architecture for Humanity (AFH Auckland) shares his experiences of helping the community of Christchurch following the devastating earthquake In February. New Zealand is a great country that made me most welcome on a trip there in 2008, and although it may be far away from the UK, and although other events seem to have taken a higher media presence recently please  remember to show your support for the people of Christchurch and enjoy the thoughts of Bobby Shen and AFH Auckland.

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(Image top by AFH Auckland)

About An Hour Into Christchurch…

About an hour into Christchurch, the city gave us its supreme welcome: a 5.3 magnitude aftershock. As the largest aftershock since the devastating February 22^nd earthquake, we were rather caught off guard (then again, who wouldn’t be). Thankfully, we were in an architect designed house which withstood everything quite well despite the violent shake up.

The Auckland Chapter of Architecture for Humanity has focussed on helping the youth community in Christchurch. Displaced and disenfranchised by the heavy hand of this disaster, these young people have been holding up extremely well. The morning after our Pecha Kucha presentation (See presentation here), we had a meeting with the White Elephant Trust and met some fantastic people who passionately go about making the lives of youth better.

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Jim's Kiwi Diaries – Volume 3

Submitted by our travelling contributor Jamie Allaway

Goooooood Morning Viet……oh England etc!

Hope you are all very well, as ever been meaning to do this for ages and so forth and i’ve pulled my finger out after a hard days graft packing apples into boxes and lugging them about.. oh the excitement!
Nope, that said it’s alright as it’s a couple of weeks work up here in Golden bay aka the able tasman etc (the place looks like an actual kiwi on the map). It’s up in the North West of the South island. Ah yes i’m also in the South Island now – thats a good point to mention eh! Came down here in the first or second week of March something like that.. the good old timescale thing here is still very different from home with what day or week it is which is still a great feeling! (groove is in the heart has just come on the radio in the video store i’m in)

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TEDxRamallah London – CHANGING PERCEPTIONS OF PALESTINE THROUGH THE POWER OF CULTURE

London Event:

Saturday 16th April. 10.30-4:00pm

Venue – The Gopher Hole, El Paso, Old Street, London

http://www.holygopher.com/

Cost – Free entry

Map - http://bit.ly/tedxrlondonmap
Facebook - http://on.fb.me/tedxrlondon

TEDxRamallah:

Wesbite - http://www.tedxramallah.com/
Facebook - http://facebook.com/tedxramallah
Twitter - http://twitter.com/tedxramallah

A ground-breaking event “TEDxRamallah” will be taking place in Palestine for the first time on Saturday 16th April. In the spirit of TED (“the power of ideas to change attitudes, lives and ultimately, the world”), TEDxRamallah will be showcasing a collection of talks and performances from inspirational speakers and performers in Bethlehem. This event aims to transform perceptions of Palestine by sharing stories and ideas from remarkable people in various fields; including technology, education, literature, music and the arts.

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Jim's Kiwi Diaries – Volume 1

Submitted by our travelling contributor Jamie Allaway

Bonjour to you all !
Hope you are all as good as I am out here! Ive tried to include everyone I can or have email addresses for! Also, im writing on a French keyboard and its not a qwerty layout so apologies for any obvious howlers.

How are you all doing back in ol blighty?! Missing me I suspect!

Ive had a great time so far after a few stressed days/sneaky surprises to see me off, starting with a few days in Hong kong on the stop over. Was there for 2 days (ish), did the usual touristy things I guess though the time zone change was a bit strange the first day especially as the hotel we had booked was cocked up and we had to wait for hours in a zombie-like state but all in all that’s the only problem we had. Got drunk all three nights there to be honest and did a few tours around half asleep the next days after. Caught up with Mr Danny Yang for one of the nights out, went to a couple of sinister places but needless to say it was a joyous time!

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FREE RANGE 2011. GRADUATE STUDENT SHOW RETURNS

Opening times:

2 June – 25 July 2011

Private Views: Thursdays 6pm-10pm

Exhibition Days: Fridays to Sundays 10am-7pm and Mondays 10am-4pm

Closed: Tuesdays to Thursdays

Free Admission

Venue: Old Truman Brewery. 91-95 Brick Lane, London, E1 6QL

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The UK’s largest art and design graduate talent exhibition Free Range returns to East London’s Old Truman Brewery in June for an eight-week free showcase of new British art and design talent. Now in its eleventh year, Free Range has established itself as the authoritative identifier and supporter of tomorrow’s best young creative talent. 2011 is set to be the exhibition’s biggest year yet, with the return of the highly successful ‘Fashion and Design’ category which launched last year and the introduction of a further new ‘Moving Image’ exhibition, which will join photography, art, graphic design and interior design on the schedule for the largest showcase of visually creative work to date.

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In the past Boidus has featured Free Range and brought to attention a number of brilliant pieces by very talented students.

Above: Visual by Amanda Wheatley of Leeds Met from the Interior Design showcase at Free Range 2009. Her proposal that was displyed at Free Range was entitled For the Lost  and Found: Cumbrian Archaeological Collection. More on interiors here

Above: Photograph by Mikko Taukkenen from Free Range 2009, who focusessed on an issue rather than an act of photography to create powerful portfolio images. He brought to our attention the plight of Palestinian refugees in Lebanon. He managed to capture the vulnerability of the people and the hell of where they lived. More on Photography here

Check out articles from the last time Boidus went to Free Range.
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MA&DE & DESIGN EXCHANGE PRESENT PUB TALK

Jim’s Kiwi Diaries – Volume 2‏

Submitted by our travelling contributor Jamie Allaway

Bonjour, Auf Wiedersein, Ni Hoa wand Good day to you all!

This week, I have been mostly been writing on a German Keyboard! For all you Fast Show followers. This time I’m writing on a German mates computer which doesn’t seem to be as bad as the French one from the last diary so again apologies for any mess ups.
Hope you all are very well, it’s the classic slacker’s excuse but I’ve genuinely not been able to send the much anticipated diary volume 2 through due to the delights of:
A. Being out in the sticks
B. New Zealand’s general internet woes
C. Being busy and having a life
D. Working in the ‘kiwi capital of the world’ 50+ hours a week

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RIBA Education Funding Schemes Up To £5000

The RIBA Education department has launched a call for applications for two funding schemes for the academic year 2011/12:
The RIBA Boyd Auger Scholarship is worth £5,000 and supports one student
or a group of students for a period of international research or work
experience between 6 and 12 months.
The RIBA Stephen Williams Scholarship worth £5,000 to support one student
for a period of postgraduate studies (Part 2 or a Masters programme)
lasting up to 12 months in the UK or abroad.
For more information, visit
http://www.architecture.com/EducationAndCareers/PrizesScholarshipsandBursaries. 

Source: Alex Tait. RIBA Knowledge Community