An On-line Competition for Young people

Varna Design Forum invites all students and young professionals (not older than 35) in the field of architecture and design to participate in an open online competition for young people for a detached module office/place of open air meetings.

The emerging of the so-called freelance work tendency, which became stronger in recent years and going through the development of the offices of the co-working space type, in 2020 the working environment unexpectedly faced a new challenge. The global pandemics focused our attention to the safety of the working place, the freedom to come out to open space and preserve the new healthcare standards.

In 2021 The European Commission Chairperson Ms Ursula von der Lien appealed to actions leading to the new European Bauhaus. It is to be expected in the coming two years following the outlined direction for the development of the European Union member-states that many specialists – architects, designers, and researchers will work or will be united by the ideas of the reborn understandings.

The Varna Design Forum, in support of this initiative tries to find an expression of the new European Bauhaus ideas with practical answers and aesthetics and responsibility to an effective ecological future for the society.

In this context the open online young people competition for a detached module office/place of open air meetings, appears to be a platform which will lead to and assert the unity of technology, utilitarianism, esthetics, art and cultural understandings.

The module to be designed is intended to be an attractive place for people working on the territory of the City of Varna and/or other cities who seek inspiration, change of the working environment or finding suitable working conditions when in the open air. The place may be used by visitors of the city who may do business on their smart gadgets or avail of the offered convenience, searching for information on the city landmarks, to start sightseeing from a given starting point the city: in the case of the City of Varna – a sea resort with a hundred years of history.

At the finish of the competition a five member jury will select the winner, who in addition to a monetary award will be given the opportunity for his design concept to be developed in real scale during the realization of the next event of Varna Design Forum “Realization of a detached module office/place for open air meetings”.