Regulations of the arting 2022 project "city?"
*ATTENTION! The application deadline has been extended to July 17, 2022.
Arting Project 2022 "City?" industrial design competition
§ 1. Competition Rules
1. The competition is for industrial design projects that propose solutions that improve the well-being of people and their surroundings, in accordance with the principles of sustainable development and energy conservation. Projects should address questions related to broadly defined urban issues.
2. Projects can be submitted in four categories:
Bielsko-Biała – designs of objects and processes consistent with sustainable development.
Technology – objects and processes consistent with sustainable development.
Environment – projects related to environmental protection and raising environmental awareness.
Challenges – design solutions to specific topics submitted by companies or institutions from the Bielsko-Biała region (topics will be posted on the competition website).
3. The competition may accept projects that are in the concept phase, implementation phase, as well as projects that have already been completed, with the number of works submitted by one participant or group being unlimited.
4. Competition entries and attachments must be submitted to the People-Innovations-Design Foundation in person or by mail or courier with a return receipt requested. Address: People-Innovations-Design Foundation, 43-300 Bielsko-Biała, ul. Gazownicza 9.
§ 2. Objectives of the competition
1. Building awareness of the role of industrial design in sustainable development by creating innovative design projects.
2. Promoting the concept of energy as a common good and the principles of its management.
3. Creating relationships between entrepreneurs and designers for better innovation and modernization of the region.
§ 3. Organization
1. The patron of the competition is the Mayor of Bielsko-Biała and the Bielsko-Biała City Hall.
2. The competition partners are universities educating industrial designers.
3. The competition is organised by the People-Innovations-Design Foundation with its registered office in Bielsko-Biała,
ul. Gazownicza 9, hereinafter referred to as the Organizer.
4. A database of information about the competition will be created on the competition website.
§ 4. Competition participants
1. The competition is open to students and graduates of faculties of industrial design, architecture, technical universities, industrial designers, architects, engineers and design teams.
2. Organizers, jurors and members of their families are not allowed to participate in the competition.
3. Persons taking part in the competition consent to the inclusion of their personal data in the Foundation’s database and to their processing for the purposes of the competition, in accordance with the Personal Data Protection Act of 29 August 1997 (Journal of Laws No. 133, item 833).
§ 5. Conditions of participation
1. Application form together with consent to data processing constituting Annex No. 1.
2. Design documentation in digital form containing:
– a B1 format board with a horizontal layout at 300 DPI resolution in editable PDF format,
– a board in A3 format with a horizontal layout in 300 DPI resolution in editable PDF format, which is a reduced version of the B1 board,
– project description with a maximum length of 400 characters,
– materials necessary to prepare further presentation of the project in printed materials
and multimedia, e.g. drawings, photos, visualizations,
– photo of the author or authors of the project for the exhibition catalogue.
3. A declaration of ownership and copyright of the participant to the competition entry, attached as Annex 2.
§ 6. Prizes
1. The competition offers a prize pool of PLN 30,000. The main prize is PLN 10,000.
2. The Organizer reserves the right to award additional, unforeseen prizes.
in the Regulations and other changes resulting from the Jury's decision.
3. In accordance with the Personal Income Tax Act, income derived from the prize is subject to taxation. The prize sponsor is the payer of the tax. The sponsor has the right to deduct an amount corresponding to the tax amount from the aforementioned prize, to which the Competition Participant irrevocably authorizes the prize sponsor.
4. The prize will be paid to the bank account indicated by the participant.
5. If the winning entry was submitted by multiple people, they will be jointly entitled to one prize. In such a case, the prize will be paid to a single bank account designated in writing by all participants who submitted the entry.
6. The Participant is not entitled to a prize if it turns out that his or her declarations and obligations contained in the Annexes to the Regulations were untrue, ineffective or unlawful.
§ 7. Deadlines
1. Design documentation with attachments must be submitted to the Organizer's office by July 17, 2022.
2. The competition results will be announced during the awards ceremony at the post-competition exhibition in October 2022. The exact date and location will be posted on the competition website.
§ 8. Jury
1. The competition jury is appointed by the Organizer and consists of 5 people.
2. The jury will consist of experts, industrial designers, representatives of the competition's partner universities, a representative of the Mayor of Bielsko-Biała, and a representative of the Organizer. The full jury composition will be announced on the competition website.
§ 9. Project evaluation criteria
1. Innovation, originality.
2. Optimal combination of functionality, ergonomic, aesthetic and ecological values.
3. Optimization of energy and material consumption during the production and use phase of the product and the possibility of its recycling after the period of use.
4. The form of presentation, its clarity and consistency.
§ 10. Use of projects
1. The organizers reserve the right to use all submitted designs for the purpose of popularizing the competition and the designers participating in the competition through publications, the press, electronic media and other mass media, including any post-competition exhibitions, without paying a royalties.
2. A competition catalogue presenting the projects, both those submitted to the competition and those selected by the jury, is planned to be published.
3. The organizer is not obligated to return competition entries to participants. After the competition ends, participants may collect their entries from the location to which they were sent, at their own expense, by December 9, 2022. After this date, the organizer is not obligated to store the entries.
§ 11. Copyright and legal protection
1. Participants are obliged to legally protect the project, which means that the authors themselves will enforce their rights if they are infringed, based on the relevant provisions of Copyright Law.
2. Copyright and proprietary rights remain the property of the creators, unless otherwise agreed in a separate agreement with the producer. The organizers are not responsible for the execution of these agreements.
§ 12. Final provisions
1. All disputes and claims related to the Competition will be resolved by a common court having jurisdiction over the registered office of the Organizer.
2. In matters not regulated by these Regulations, generally applicable provisions of law shall apply.
3. The content of these Regulations and attachments can be downloaded from the Organizer's website www.flid.pl and will also be made available to all interested parties at the Organizer's office.
4. The Competition is not a game of chance, a raffle, a mutual bet or a promotional lottery, the outcome of which depends on chance within the meaning of Art. 2 of the Act of 29 July 1992 on games and mutual bets (Journal of Laws No. 68, item 341, as amended).
5. The Regulations come into force on the date of announcement.
6. The Organizer may make changes to the Rules if the need arises after they have been developed. Changes will take effect and bind both the competition participants and the Organizer from the moment they are published on the Organizer's website.
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