registration requirements

Everyone is welcome to participate in Design For The Children. No restrictions are set on your status, job, age or nationality. Entrants don’t need to be licensed architects. Designs may be submitted by an individual or by a team. There is no limit to the number of entries per person, or the number of teams with which an individual may participate.

Please note: Each entry must meet the requirements for submission outlined below.

Competition launches: August 15th, 2008
Submission deadline: January 15th, 2009

How to Register
Designers must register with Design For The Children at www.designforthechildren.org to enter the competition.
The deadline for registration is October 15th, 2008.

Team Entrants
One registered user must be identified as the Team Lead and will be the contact between designers and competition administrators. Please be certain to update all contact information throughout the competition at info@designforthechildren.org

Student Entrants
Students and faculty are invited to work together and submit entries as a team or individually. Student work is juried alongside that of professionals, and jury members will not be advised of the difference.

submission requirements

All entries must be mailed by January 15th, 2009. The submission should be original in content. All entries must be submitted without identifying marks, including logos, text, insignia, or images on the display surface that could be used to identify the submission’s authors. This does not apply to the entrant identification sheet which must be submitted in full. The entrant identification sheet must include the Team Lead’s name, group members for a group submission, contact email address, city, state, and country of submission Team Lead. The entrant identification sheet may also contain any additional information about the entrant, entrant team, or institution or organization that the entrant is affiliated with. The entrant identification card will be affixed to the back of the project entry for competition administrators to identify winning entries while maintaining anonymity with the jury and jurying process.

How to submit
Mail entries to:

AIA Seattle
Attn: Design for the Children
1911 First Ave
Seattle, WA 98101

Rules
The purpose of Design For The Children is to improve lives by exploring sustainable, culturally responsive, pediatric health centers throughout East Africa. To that end, we ask that all entrants read and agree to the rules before entering the competition. The rules are intended to make it possible for Architecture for Humanity: Seattle to share all of designs submitted to the competition with those who could benefit most from them and—ultimately—to build one or more winning designs. In submitting an entry to Design For The Children, all participants agree to comply with the rules and terms of entry below.

Eligibility
Design For The Children is an open, international competition. Family members of the Design For The Children administration board or Architecture For Humanity: Seattle members are precluded from participating in the competition, but there are no other restrictions on who can enter. Architects, design professionals, non-professionals, professionals in other fields and students of all ages are encouraged to participate.

In order to enter the competition, entrants must register at www.designforthechildren.org Particiants may submit multiple entries. For jurying purposes, each design is considered as a separate entry.

Period of Submission
The submission period is open the entire length of the competition, from August 15th, 2008 through January 15, 2009. Entries that are late, illegible, incomplete, misdirected or incompletely received will not be eligible. The competition organizers reserve the right to delay or extend the period of submission.

Anonymity and Design Credit
All entries must be submitted without any markings that will identify team members in order to facilitate fair jurying of the competition. Building Plans, Building Elevations, Site Plans, Renderings, Project description page, and any other images submitted for consideration should not include title blocks or any other identifying information. Failure to comply with this rule will lead to disqualification. This does not apply to the entrant identification sheet, which must be completed in full and must include the name of the Team Lead, group members in group entries, contact email address, city, state, and country. Please note: Information entered in the entrant identification sheet will be used to give proper credit to design team members.

Ownership and Copyright
By entering the competition, entrants agree that a) all material entered into the competition is original and that the entrant or entrant team is not in copyright violation with any of the entry information; b) Design For The Children, Architecture For Humanity: Seattle, and Fight For The Children have full rights to use any or all entry information in any way they see fit for the benefit of their charitable efforts; c) Design For The Children, Architecture For Humanity: Seattle, and Fight For The Children are not liable for any direct, indirect, incidental, special, consequential, or exemplary damages for loss of profits, goodwill, use, data or other intangible losses resulting from your participation in this competition. Entrants shall own all design concepts, drawings, images, renderings, sketches, photographs, models, and/or text, documents, information or other materials submitted in association with the competition provided. However, the entrant hereby grants Design For The Children, Architecture for Humanity: Seattle, and Fight For The Children perpetual, free, unrestricted use of the submission materials in fulfillment of its charitable purposes, including its annual report, its websites and in communications with volunteers, funders and the media and all other purposes specified in these Rules. Such use is expressly not directed toward private monetary compensation.

Notwithstanding Design For The Children’s, Architecture For Humanity: Seattle’s, or Fight For The Children’s rights as a Licensor, competition entrants shall retain full rights to use the documents in other projects for commercial and for-profit purposes.

By entering this competition entrants warrant that all materials submitted by them are their own, that nothing in the submission of these materials will infringe the copyright or any other right of any person and that they have full authority to submit the materials for such purposes.

Exhibition and Publication
The organizers may exhibit selected entries Design For The Children and in Seattle during and after the competition. The results of the competition may be presented online, in galleries or other venues, or in a printed publication and selected entries will be available to be viewed on www.designforthechildren.org Selected and Finalist entrants will be allowed to continue to work with Design For The Children, Architecture For Humanity: Seattle, and/or Fight For The Children if all or part of the entry is to be part of a built facility.

In any exhibition, publication, built work, or website, the organizers will make every effort to properly credit the appropriate competitors. Architecture for Humanity and its designees reserve the right to utilize materials submitted by entrants in any publication or promotional endeavor in perpetuity and free of charge (See "Ownership and Copyright").

Prizes and Awards
One entry will be selected as the winning design, five additional entries will be selected as honorable mention, and twenty five entries will be selected as finalists. Finalists, honorable mentions, and the winning design will be publically shown in Seattle, Washington U.S.A. at the completion of the jurying process. The winning design, honorable mentions, and selected entries will also be posted on www.designforthechildren.org Honorable mentions, finalists, and the winning design will be the primary models used to work toward a built pediatric clinic in East Africa. Entrants for the selected entries used to develop that final built clinic will be invited to join Fight For The Children and competition administrators at the selected site for the opening of the clinic.

Design For The Children, Architecture For Humanity: Seattle, and Fight For The Children are committed, but not obligated, to using selected entries in the development of future clinics in East Africa. Architecture for Humanity reserves the right to implement the winning design concept with or without the involvement of the entrant, but will make all reasonable efforts to include the entrant in the implementation of the design.

Architecture for Humanity will make every reasonable effort to contact the winning entrant, honorable mentions, and finalists and notify the entrants of the recognition. In the event the winner, honorable mentions, and/or finalists cannot be contacted for any reason, or fails to respond to repeated notification attempts and/or emails within 14 days, Design For The Children will proceed with publically recognizing the entrants as if they have accepted. If any entrant wishes to refuse recognition, Design For The Children may, but is not obligated to, recognize another entry in its sole discretion. No substitution or transfer of recognition will be allowed. Design For The Children reserves the right not to award all or partial recognition in the event competition administrators receive an insufficient number of eligible entries that meet the minimum criteria as set forth as part of the competition guidelines.

disputes

The jury has the sole authority and responsibility to recommend winners at the end of the competition. The organizers reserve the right to make a final decision regarding the winning scheme and any funding that may be made available for the development or implementation of designs entered into the competition. The competition administrators’ decisions in connection with all matters concerning the competition shall be final and binding.

limitation of liability

By entering the competition, all entrants and team members agree to indemnify, defend and hold Design For The Children, Architect for Humanity: Seattle, and Fight For The Children including its chartered units, and its governors, directors, officers, employees, agents, partners, funders, sponsors and volunteers from and against any and all suits, claims, demands, liabilities, damages, costs and expenses (reasonable attorneys’ fees) arising out of or relating in any way to services it provides in connection with this agreement. If you have any questions about the rules stipulated above, please do not hesitate to contact the competition administrators. Commitments and Obligations

The goal of Design For The Children is to improve lives. Design For The Children, Architecture For Humanity: Seattle, and Fight For The Children are committed to making a difference and changing lives. If your entry is selected in full or part to be used in the development of a built pediatric clinic, participants are invited, but not obligated, to participate in the development of a pediatric clinic. For The Children, Architecture For Humanity: Seattle, and Fight For The Children are committed, but not obligated, to include any or all entrants in the development of a built clinic.

We hope your design is selected, and we look forward to working with you.