WHY STOP Competition

Call for Entries
SHIFTboston WHY STOP Competition

Competition Deadline
Friday, September 16, 2011

Call for Entries:
SHIFTboston is challenging urban planners, architects, urban designers, designers and landscape architects -- professionals and students -- to explore and visualize destinations along the proposed South Coast Rail extension, which will connect Boston to Taunton, New Bedford, and Fall River, Massachusetts.

Competition:
The planned extension of commuter rail lines from Boston’s South Station to the Massachusetts South Coast has the capacity for broader re-conception and re-imagination of the region. We encourage competitors to investigate and to explore the potential of this new network and its RESOURCES. How might one animate the new rail system by adding to or enhancing the existing urban NETWORK? How might NEW or improved destinations draw from regional and local resources, industry and CULTURE such as universities, agriculture, arts, marine INDUSTRY, historical institutions, tourism and RECREATION? Think about FUN.

There are a large number of wetlands lying in the South Coast corridor. Think about how the new rail might draw from this natural resource while offering protection to it. How might the rail benefit this sensitive HABITAT?

For more details on challenge options click here:
http://shiftboston.org/competitions/2011rail.php

Jury:

Julia Czerniak, Director of UPSTATE and Associate Professor at Syracuse University School of Architecture; Syracuse, NY

Diane Georgopulos, Massachusetts Housing Finance Agency (Mass Housing),
Boston, MA

Greg Guimond, Deputy Director and Comprehensive Planning Manger of the Southeastern Regional Planning & Economic Development District (SRPEDD),
Taunton, MA

Scott Lang, Mayor, New Bedford, MA

Edward Mitchell, Assistant Professor at Yale University School of Architecture and Principal of EMA, New Haven, CT

Chris Reed, Principal and Founder of Stoss Landscape Urbanism, Boston, MA

Adèle Naudé Santos, Dean of Massachusetts Institute of Technology School of Architecture, Cambridge, MA and Principal of Santos Prescott and Associates, San Francisco, CA

Michael Sorkin, Principal of Sorkin Studio, New York, NY

Awards:
The jury will select a winner who will present his/her concept at the SHIFTboston WHY STOP Forum in Boston, MA on October 20th, among members of the jury, government, community and business leaders, local developers and regional economic development groups.

The winning entry will be featured in a new game for mobile devices which will be featured as part of the WHY STOP Exhibition. Winning and select submissions will be on public display as part of a traveling exhibition in 2012 which will be on public display at South Station in Boston, the New Bedford Public Library and Fall River.

All finalists and eligible entries will be promoted on the SHIFTboston blog and website and will become part of the SHIFTboston WHY STOP book in 2012.

To register please click:
http://shiftboston.org/competitions/register.php

Questions:
For more information, email [email protected]

Partners and Sponsors:
Amtrak
Southeastern Regional Planning & Economic Development District (SRPEDD)
Boston South Station
Boston Society of Architects
City of New Bedford
Boston Game Jams