reThink / reDesign / reCycle

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AIA CHICAGO: YOUNG ARCHITECTS FORUM JURIED COMPETITION

reThink / reDesign / reCycle

reThink/reDesign/reCycle is a two-phase juried competition that seeks proposals for an ecologically intelligent, urban recycling receptacle. reThink/reDesign/reCycle aims to generate new and outstanding responses to Chicago's public re cycling challenges.

The City of Chicago, with the support of Mayor Daley, has developed a Green Initiatives Committee that advances environmentally positive and sustainable practices within the city. The city investigates recycling issues while exploring different types of recycling containers to inhabit the urban landscape and is open to ideas generated by entrants to inform new recycling endeavors.

Entrants should address complications present in Chicago's current recycling program. Operating costs, source separation versus single stream collection, and the public's motivations for recycling are all issues to be considered.

Competition entrants are asked to re-investigate the process of recycling in its entirety, from the material manufacturing process to the consumption choices made by individuals to the existing recycling infrastructure and its role in the collection process.

reThink/reDesign/reCycle aspires to educate visitors and citizens about the process of recycling and help advance Chicago's Greening Initiative. The Chicago YAF proposes a challenge to the design community to submit innovative solutions that can be adopted by Chicago and implemented throughout the city.

Entrants who are invited to continue to Phase II shall build their Phase I designs at full scale. Phase II entrants will receive financial assistance from the Young Architects Forum to assist in the construction of the design. More information will be available to Phase II finalists after Phase I closes.

The receptacles will be exhibited at Daley Plaza and judged by a panel of designers and city officials. The event and the entrants will be widely publicized at the opening day event on August 19. Awards totaling $3000 will be presented to the winners.