RESHAPE19
COMPETITION
RESHAPE19
COMPETITION
We are moving towards an era of augmentation. Wearables, smart devices, and e-textiles are new solutions for future hybrid generations of interconnected humans and devices. The higher level of interaction is producing new paradigms, raising novel questions, imposing different habits, shifting economies and politics. Through technology, we are on the edge of a change in the perception of our habitats, ecosystems, bodies, social behaviours and interactions.
Defining the future is a Design Challenge.
The Challenge of RESHAPE V focuses on future applications of Wearable Tech and Smart Products, inviting creative minds to predict new trends, elaborate novel solutions, and recalibrate existing markets in the direction of more sustainable models.
Our goal is to redefine contemporary devices towards a new generation of cognitive nodes, connecting us to our habitats and ecosystems.
We challenge designers to come up with clothing solutions that establish a connection with the environment. We seek a wide variety of proposals, from innovative materials and wearable electronics to prosthetic applications, with a mediating function between our body and its needs.
We are looking for wearable products, programmable materials or biotechnology applications that intervene on common health issues, such as respiratory problems, harmful body postures, disabilities, and stress or tackle the pollution of natural elements – air, water.
The submitted project needs to present a clear prototyping design methodology, to involve digital manufacturing technologies, and to highlight qualities of safety and recyclability, suggesting the potential of being reused or composted. Interdisciplinary processes, experimental approaches, and innovative design strategies become necessary for those striving to be the pioneers of this digital age.
Smart Product design is the category directed to all creatives and designers interested in product solutions promoting well-being and health care and in a wide range of applications – from sports to automotive and medical devices.
Reshape challenges makers and designers to present a product able to function as the mediating factor between the forces shaping our environments, and monitoring, sensing, and interacting with the physical and digital world. Proposals must take into consideration the social impact of their production and consumption cycle. Interdisciplinary processes, experimental approaches, and innovative design production are required to become the pioneers of the digital age.
We look forward to receiving project proposals aimed at questioning, in a constructive and creative way, the role of technology in the definition of new paradigms for your society. Whether applicants decide to address the nature of social relations, the sustainability of our models of production, or the emerging necessities resulting from the technological change, bridging a gap between the human and the digital is one of the core tasks.
The divide between innovation and human, environmental, and social development is only apparent – at least potentially, or theoretically. On a mission to reconcile these salient dimensions of the human experience, project submissions are expected to envision future needs promoting new products, predict market trends and novel ways of interaction, and build on rapid prototyping and digital manufacturing to produce custom solutions.
In a changing world, cognified devices carry the answers to some of the most pressing challenges posed to our customary norms and ways of doing things. Truly revolutionary projects should then design solutions that improve our lifestyle, without forgetting about the scalability proper of new, distributed market models.
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 it 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.
Our Scientific Committee is composed by a team of top international experts in the fields of Wearable, Fashion and Manufacturing with diverse backgrounds from the professional world to academia.
Bradly Klerk Dunn
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.
Anastasia Pistofidou
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.
Valerie Bergeron
Director of Materfad-materials centre of Barcelona, at the FAD- Fostering Arts and Design. Valérie also coordinates, for FAD, permanent and temporary exhibitions related to Materfad activities and lectures on architecture, museography and innovative materials for different professional and educational programs.
The Reshape jury panel is composed of an international experts representatives from fashion industry, Product industry and Education fields. The Jury panel will evaluate the submitted projects from RESHAPE19| cognified matter competition, selecting three winners and two honourable mentions for each category.
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 are open to architects, designers, biologist engineers or students or professionals from any field.
4. The registration fee for each submission is 50,00 € and is necessary for receiving the entry identification code.
5. Registration link
6. Reshape is a digital competition. Hard copies of the proposal will not be accepted.
SUBMISSION MATERIALS
1. Each team has to create a maximum of 3 boards of A3 size landscape format. Each board should be a vectorial (not raster) pdf file and RGB colour mode. The content of the boards should show the design and fabrication process of each design solution. Short text, diagrams, pictures 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 of 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 ” Reshape19_Identificationcode_title of the project”
4. All entries must be submitted via mail (info@youreshape.io) on/or before midnight (23.59) 9th of September 2019, Barcelona Time (UTC/GMT +2 hour).
5. Disqualification of entries may occur if the guidelines are not met.
Reshape V edition will shortlist three winners, respectively from the Wearable technology and Smart product category. Additionally, two honourable mentions will be nominated for each category. The first winning designers will be awarded two scholarships* (value: 6.200 Euro) for the DESIGN FOR WEARABLES postgraduate program at IED Barcelona, and a financial prize up to 1.000 Euro.
Moreover, all selected talents, winners and honourable mentions, will have the chance to participate in Reshape Forum, with a free ticket pass at INDUSTRY From Need to Solution Event (overall ticket price: 400 Euro) . At the Reshape Forum, designers will meet relevant industry leaders, presenting their proposals to the INDUSTRY and Reshape audience. Additionally, shortlisted projects will be showcased at Reshape Exhibition and invited to the Reshape Networking night.
*100% Scholarship for the Wearable technology category 1st winner, 50% Scholarship program for the Smart Product category 1st winner. The inscription fee is not included.
Reshape 2019 award 1000 Euro at the first Winners, respectively from the two categories Wearable Technology and Smart Product.
Also, the three nominated winners will receive the trophy, certification and publication online.
Reshape 2019 award two scholarship for the Design for Wearable postgraduate program at IED Barcelona. Students will learn how to combine data-driven strategies, blurring computational design, electronic devices, rapid prototyping, AR/VR and advanced interaction into the definition of a new creative workflow.
Reshape platform organize the Reshape Forum, three days of meetings at Fira Barcelona during the INDUSTRY -From Needs to Solutions event. In this occasion, we invite market players from the fashion and retail industry to meet the finalist designs from the Reshape competition.
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During the Reshape Forum, the finalists designer from the Reshape competition will have a face to face meeting with the jury members and key profile coming from the Industry, Institutions, Education field to pitch their project and receives significant feedback.
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The selected designers from the Reshape Competition could exhibit them design proposals at the Reshape Exhibition during the RESHAPE FORUM at INDUSTRY-From Needs to Solution event. Also, valuable projects will be selected to be part of the permanent exhibition of Reshape, which will be shown in international events such as Milano fashion week and Altaroma.
The Reshape Forum will close with the Networking Night a private event organized to build a professional connection between Reshape industries partners, experts and the talented designers from the Reshape competition.
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.
Winners and honourable mentions of the Reshape19 | Cognified matter must make a commitment to accept their awards in person at the award ceremony. Exhibition If the submitted work is selected and honoured by the jury the artist is committed to present the submitted work at the Reshape Forum 2019.
The 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.
Contact us
info@youreshape.io
t: (+34) 937 420 927
Location
Gran Via de les Corts Catalanes 690,
Eixample, 08010,
Barcelona, Spain
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