Competition to design an interactive sports hub: Tokyo Dojo – Uniting people through sports
PREMISE
Sports is the cry of triumph, the tears of joy, the beating of chest when your team loses in the nail-biting crusade. Gathering up on streets in front of a TV, listening to the radio broadcast in a remote village or watching with your friends on a 52-inch screen – the euphoria with which the whole country cheers is unparalleled. A community lives its best experience when everyone is interacting under the same roof. And sports have the potential to provide such a platform.
Unfortunately, a dense city fabric, work-life and technology has changed viewing patterns. An in-person experience has taken precedence over community integration. This has led to increased social isolation, lack of road activity, a disappearing community fabric, and hence unsafe dead streets.
How can an activity that plays within the confines of four walls be shifted back to the streets? Without disrupting the pattern of virtual consumption.
CHALLENGE
Challenge is to design an interactive sports hub, where people can come together, watch and enjoy a sports event. To recreate the atmosphere of a stadium for fans who can’t watch it live. A temporary structure that will act as a hotspot for public integration and that can be installed in different neighborhoods of the city.
Short Description
Sports is the cry of triumph, the tears of joy, the beating of chest when your team loses in the nail-biting crusade. Challenge is to design an interactive sports hub, where people can come together, watch and enjoy a sports event. To recreate the atmosphere of a stadium for fans who can’t watch it live.
Organizer
SWIFT
Link to Competition
Link to Registration form
Prizes
Prize pool of worth 20,000$
First Prize: 5000$ (For students and professionals)
Runner Up: 6 x 1100$ (For students and professionals)
People’s Choice: 4 x 600$ (Open for all)
Honorable Mention x 12: 500$ Each
Type of Competition
Open to the public/Minimum requirements (Open to anyone that complies with the requirements), Single stage (Winners selected immediately)
Who can Participate
The minimum eligible age for participation is 18 years.
There is no restriction on the degree of design disciplines to participate in the challenge.
Participation in the competition can happen in a team as well as an individual.
The maximum numbers of participants in a team are 4.
The challenge is open worldwide for anyone to participate.
Dates and Time Frame
Registration Closes April 16, 2020
Deadline to Submit Project April 26, 2020
Winners announcement Date June 6, 2020
Languages
English
Location of Competition
Tokyo, Japan
Location of Project (if developed)
Tokyo, Japan
Additional Information
Banner, Poster, Brochure or Triptic of Competition
