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| < < backUSA: Imagining RecoveryDEADLINE: 19 April 2009January 20, 2009, Day 1 of the Obama presidency, began the current administration’s commitment to transparency, participation and collaboration in government. On Day 29, February 17, President Obama signed the Recovery Act into law and launched Recovery.gov, a website publishing the spending of recovery funds in the name of transparency, offering “maps, charts, and graphics” to illustrate the distribution of funds.
IMAGINING RECOVERY calls upon designers of all types to imagine the futures these maps, charts, graphics and accounting figures serve to anticipate, and to interpret for the public the lived experience of this future by producing an image of recovery.
This moment of change offers an opportunity for designers to rethink their role in our society. Imagining Recovery promotes collaboration by pairing designers with policy makers to collectively write the competition brief, proposing a model wherein designers can actively participate in the initial imaginings of the policies they will be called upon to implement.
A policy discussion forum is offered between Day 45 and Day 55, wherein designers will have the opportunity to participate in a global network of public policy students to unpack and discuss the issues of recovery, developing lines of communication and a common language. The issues raised collectively in this forum will then be summarized and constitute the brief of the competition.
To support their image of a lived future, this competition asks designers to offer their expertise in designing a means of getting from the present to the image of recovery. Design may be offered in any form, from physical, built objects, to technological applications and interfaces, to campaigns to affect social behavior, to the design of phasing strategies, and beyond.
Submissions are due on April 29, 2009, Day 100 of the Obama presidency. The jury will address the public and issue awards on May 13, 2009, Day 114. Following the competition, a collective After-Image will be distributed in the forum of a publication, and a video exhibition which will travel to New York, Paris, Beijing and Amman, amongst other places. All will be available for free online download. Winners will received a cash prize and be published in Volume Magazine.
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