RESHAPE 18 | IV Edition

RESHAPE18 | SENSING MATERIALITIES
TWO COMPETITION CATEGORIES

THE SUBMISSION IS OPEN TO ALL FORMS OF ARTISTIC WORK AND ALL TYPES OF TECHNOLOGICAL AND SCIENTIFIC RESEARCH DEVELOPMENTS APPLIED IN BOTH WEARABLE AND PRODUCT DESIGN.

SUBMISSION DEADLINE CLOSED!
(7th of SEPTEMBER 2018)

BRIEF

OUR BODY IS A SOPHISTICATED MECHANISM.

It has evolved and adapted to change through centuries of progression to become a dynamic entity responding to complex stimuli. Nevertheless, the rise of technology is disrupting the natural course of evolution, taking us towards a new unpredictable future.

In this digital age, our body is being exposed to unnatural hazards, such as environmental pollution, radiation and widespread disease. We need to learn how to navigate this rapidly changing environment. Ironically, technology plays a dual role, in both cause and cure. Scientists predict that many future threats to humanity will result from unprecedented technological evolution. In parallel, as technology progresses, so does our ability to develop and apply new solutions.

Additive manufacturing techniques, synthetic biology, custom materials and ubiquitous computing allow the emergence of new products, customized to the needs of individuals and societies.

CRITERIA

CONCEPT IDEA

Significant attention will be given to those projects that reconsider the idea of design in an inventive and experimental way, establishing interconnections between users, environment and data.

PROTOTYPE FABRICABILITY

Reshape aims to merge both design and making in a complete creative process. Therefore, each design approach must present a clear fabrication strategy, materializing design solutions with tools that are available in a Fab Lab or Maker Space.

DISSEMINATION STRATEGY

A dissemination plan needs to be elaborated.In order to visualize your idea in a potential market, is crucial to set a dissemination strategy, proposing convincing scenarios of implementation for each proposal.

JURY MEMBERS - WEARABLE TECHNOLOGY

Bradly Dunn Klerks
Formerly positioned as CEO of Iris van Herpen, Couture Fashion label well known for her innovative experiments with materials, techniques and technologies. He is responsible for all the IvH Couture shows, exhibitions and international media.

Simone Cesano
Senior Director of Design Operations at ADIDAS. In his position, he manages processes, systems and projects for the designer’s creative community at the sporting goods brand. Simone held positions in the supply chain at different brands in the luxury and sporting goods businesses. He’s always been interested in the intersection of numbers, technology.

Laia Mogas-Soldevila
She works at the Silklab at Tufts Biomedical Engineering focusing on design and development of functional biomaterial products. She has worked at the MIT MediaLab Mediated Matter Group focusing on digital design and fabrication of bio-inspired material structures, at the MIT SUTD Robotics Lab.

Valerie Bergeron
is in charge of Materfad-materials centre of Barcelona, as Materials Library Manager, at the FAD- Fostering Arts and Design. Valérie also coordinates, for FAD, permanent and temporary exhibitions related with Materfad activities and lectures on architecture, museography and innovative materials for different professional and educational programs.

Anastasia Pistofidou
is currently works at Fab Lab Barcelona as director of the FabTextile research lab and the Fabricademy, a new textile and technology academy. Anastasia combines the analogue and the digital towards applied research focused on new materials, art and textiles.

Claudia Pasquero
Director of ecoLogicStudio an architectural and urban design studio co-founded in London with Marco Poletto. In the past few years the studio has built up an international reputation for its innovative work on ‘systemic’ design.

JURY MEMBERS - PRODUCT DESIGN

Gaia Danese
Currently General Consul of Italy in Barcelona. Since 2017 she is the coordinator in Spain of the ITmakES project, an initiative launched by the Italian Embassy in Madrid and General Consulate in Barcelona.

Augusto Guardiola
He has developed his professional activity in the Sectors of Banking, Financial Services, Computer Security, Strategic Consulting.He is currently CDC (Corporate Development Chief) at MARCELO VILÁ, a subsidiary ofNOA BRANDS Group, global leader in the Visual Merchandising sector.

Alessandro Manetti
Director of IED Barcelona. Alessandro is an international speaker and Design Strategist working on different projects in Communication, Visual Arts and fashion fields in a wide variety of business applications.

Davide Neri
Marketing & International Sales Director WASP, his main goal is to explore how digital technologies can interact with the biological world on a daily basis, combining computational design, additive manufacturing and materials engineering to pioneer a symbiosis between our bodies, the products we consume, and even the buildings we inhabit.

Valerio Parisi
Global Trade Marketing Director at Luxottica

Valerio Parisi graduated at the Bocconi University of Milan in Business Economy in 2004. Between 2004 and 2015 he covered managing roles at the department of Sales & Marketing of P&G, Italy and Europe. Since 2015 Valerio is part of the firm leader in the design of eyewear in the world, Luxottica as General Manager on the Iberian area, managing the business of Spain and Portugal.

RULES

To participate in the Reshape18, you must register online and submit all mandatory information online. An entry confirmation will be sent out via e-mail as soon as all required documentation has been received.

All submissions will be judged by experts, in the order of their arrival.

REGISTRATION REQUIREMENTS

1. The official language of the competition is English. Any other language will not be accepted.

2. Participants could be groups or individuals.

3. The competitions is open to architects, designers, biologist engineers or students or professionals from any field.

4.The registration fee for each submissions is 30,00 € and is necessary for receiving the entry identification code.

5. Registration link

6. Reshape is a digital competition. Hard copies of proposal will not be accepted.

SUBMISSION MATERIALS

1. Each team has to create maximum 3 boards of A3 size landscape format. Each board should be a vectorial (not raster) pdf file and RGB color mode. The content of the boards should show the design and fabrication process of each design solution. Short text, diagrams, picture of the physical prototype and images/renders of the final design should be included.

2. A text of approximately 600 words has to be delivered separately in a word document. The text should include the description of the proposal as well as an approximate economical estimation.

3. A video f maximum duration of one minute has to be included. The video should be one mp4 file, maximum 25 MB.

SUBMISSION RULES

1. Entry identification code ( which is generated during the registration) must be placed in the upper right corner of each A3 board, with required dimensions of 40 x 10 mm. No other form of identification is allowed.

2. All the A3 boards should be combined into one single pdf file (maximum 25 MB) named own identification code (which is generated during the registration) and title of its project.

3. Each entry (pdf, word document, video) should be submitted online info@youreshape.io in a .zip or .rar format named as ” Reshape18_Identificationcode_title of the project”

4. All entries must be submitted via mail (info@youreshape.io) on/or before midnight (23.59) 7th of September 2018, Barcelona Time (UTC/GMT) +2 hour).

5. Disqualification of entries may occur if the guidelines are not met.

PRIZE

The Reshape Honorary Mentions and Nominations winners will have the opportunity to pitch their project at the Reshape Forum Audience. The Reshape winner will be announced at the AWARD CEREMONY, with up to 2000 € of financial support.

The jury members will select up to 10 projects to nominate for prize consideration. From the selected projects will be decided three prize-winning projects and up to seven honorary mentions, which will be included in the online platform of RESHAPE and will be invited to participate to the RESHAPE FORUM.

RESHAPE FORUM

Terms and conditions

The information (images, documents or any other supports) provided by the participants in the proposals they submit to the Reshape competition will be able to be used, exposed and/or publicized by NOUMENA DESIGN RESEARCH EDUCATION S.L. (hereinafter, the organizer) for educational, informative and promotional purposes, always quoting the source, being understood that the referred use, exposure and/or publication will not imply any form of remuneration for the participants.

For that purpose, participants will assign their rights regarding their proposals to the organiser, so that it can use, expose and/or publicize them for educational, informative and promotional purposes.

The participants are responsible for guaranteeing the authorship of the proposals they submit (including the images or documents they might contain). Furthermore, the participants are responsible for guaranteeing the ownership of the intellectual and, where applicable, industrial property rights thereof, and for guaranteeing that the materials they submit do not infringe in any case the rights of third parties.

Organizer will be free and exempt from any liability derived from any claim of a third party related to the proposals submitted by the participants. Participants will be responsible, as the case, for the referred third parties claims, as well as for the claims that can be issued by the entities of intellectual property rights regarding the proposals they have submitted.