2023 Edmund N. Bacon Student Urban Design Competition Brief Launches

The annual international student design competition is back with a new focus on helping students explore their own cultural competency when engaging community members in design work.

After taking a year pause for a strategic rethink, the annual international student design competition is back. This competition is an ideas competition – we want our teams to be as creative as possible – but we also want the students participating in this competition to navigate the nuanced, complicated, contradictory, and paramount concerns of the key stakeholders in every project.

Important Dates to Remember

July 01, 2022: Competition Brief Launches

September 2022: Workshop on Culturally Competent Community Engagement

December 15, 2022: Deadline for questions

January 31, 2023: Final date to submit entries

March or April 2023 (date TBD): Awards Ceremony in Philadelphia

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