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Yarışma Özeti(Summary):

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Kimler katılabilir (Open to):
The contest is declared open in accordance with relevant international rules
and is open to all Italian and foreign designers, architects, and students,
whether free-lance or employees of companies (if authorized by their
employer to participate).

Katılım ücreti (Entry Fee):

Ödüller (Awards):
- 1st Prize € 5.500
- 2nd Prize € 3.000
- 3rd Prize € 2.000.

Juri (Jury):
Roberto Cariani, Istituto Ambiente Italia ? Lino Centi, University of
Florence? Flavia Ciatti, entrepreneur ? Biagio Cisotti, designer ? Francesco
Del Tongo, entrepreneur ? Benito Giovannetti, entrepreneur ? Stefano
Giovannoni, designer ? Gianfranco Gualterotti, designer ? James Irvine,
designer ? Lorenzo Rubechini, entrepreneur ? Massimo Ruffilli, University of
Florence? Roberto Segoni, University of Florence? Lorenzo Toncelli,
entrepreneur ? Co-ordination: Giuseppe Lotti, University of Florence.

İletişim Bilgileri (Contact): 
PMI, Via IV Novembre 119, 51100 Quarrata (PT), Italy

INTRODUCTION
Tuscany: art, culture and nature.
Tuscan furniture: quality, innovation, design and more. In fact, since the
beginning of the year 2002, the new Casa Toscana / Green Home quality label
is going to award the companies involved in environmental sustainability
projects and is going to be a clear indication of a state-of-the-art
production.

art.1 Purpose

With these considerations as its starting point, and with the aim of
valorizing Tuscan furniture production and renewing its tradition, Consorzio
Casa Toscana, in collaboration with the Centro Studi Giovanni Klaus Koenig,
a division of the Department of Architecture and Design Technologies
"Pierluigi Spadolini" of the Faculty or Architecture of the University of
Florence, hereby announces the second edition of an international contest
centering on design of furnishing elements with accentuated characteristics
of environmental sustainability. Thus, priority value will be assigned to
ecological awareness extended to all phases of product life: from industrial
purchasing (use of renewable and recycled materials: in general, "clean"
materials), to production (reduction of waste and scrap, adoption of the
cleanest possible techniques and processes, etc.), to use (attention to
consumer health, increased product life, etc.), to end-of-life and disposal
(dismantling, recycling, single-material construction, composting, etc.).

art.2 Designer/Contestant-Company Relations

With the aim of promoting a closer relationship between the world of design
and engineering and the world of production, several selected companies
(which will remain anonymous until the prizes are awarded) have prepared a
series of project briefs, all of which are sufficiently detailed (on the
typological, technical, and formal levels) - see brief page. The winning
designer/contestants will receive cash prizes (Art. 8), while the companies
will be guaranteed, for one year, the option to purchase the projects. The
participating designers will, of course, be free to draw up projects
different from those outlined in the company project briefs

art.3 Composition of the Jury

The members of the contest jury are:
Roberto Cariani, Istituto Ambiente Italia ? Lino Centi, University of
Florence? Flavia Ciatti, entrepreneur ? Biagio Cisotti, designer ? Francesco
Del Tongo, entrepreneur ? Benito Giovannetti, entrepreneur ? Stefano
Giovannoni, designer ? Gianfranco Gualterotti, designer ? James Irvine,
designer ? Lorenzo Rubechini, entrepreneur ? Massimo Ruffilli, University of
Florence? Roberto Segoni, University of Florence? Lorenzo Toncelli,
entrepreneur ? Co-ordination: Giuseppe Lotti, University of Florence.

art.4 Requirements for Participating in the Contest e

The contest is declared open in accordance with relevant international rules
and is open to all Italian and foreign designers, architects, and students,
whether free-lance or employees of companies (if authorized by their
employer to participate). Teams of designers may also participate in the
contest, but in this case there must be designated a team leader, who will
be the sole referent to the promoting body. Members of the Jury, their
families, and persons affiliated with organizations managed by the jury
and/or by the organizers of the contest may not participate in the contest.
Each contestant may present at most two projects relative to the same number
of briefs. Participation in the contest implies full and unconditional
acceptance of the rules and regulations set forth herein. .
art.5 Novelty

The projects submitted to the contest must be novel and developed especially
for the contest. Projects not meeting this requirement will be excluded by
final and irrevocable decision of the jury.

art.6 Form of Presentation

The projects may be submitted on paper support (A3 format, from 3 to 5
plates set up on rigid forex panel) - all representative techniques are
admissible. Whatever the format, the drawings must contain sufficient
information to thoroughly illustrate the project. In order to better explain
the environmentally-pertinent aspects of the project, the contestants are
required to submit a technical-descriptive report no longer than three
typewritten pages in A4 format. The motto chosen by the contestant (see Art.
7 herein) must appear clearly on all the plates comprising the project and
the report.

art.7 Identification and Anonymity

The project documents must all be identified by a title or a motto,
corresponding to a title or a motto submitted in a separate sealed envelope
together with the personal data of the designer/contestant or
team/contestant. The project documents must be in no way identifiable except
by their title or motto.
art.8 Prize Money

IThe prize money amounts overall to € 10.500, subdivided as follows:

- 1st Prize € 5.500
- 2nd Prize € 3.000
- 3rd Prize € 2.000.

art.9 Use Rights

As mentioned in Art. 2, the "contracting" company is guaranteed, for one
year, the option on purchase of the project based on its brief. At the end
of that term, said right shall be considered forfeit. If the winning
projects, or other submitted to the contest, are put into actual production,
the relative business relationship with the author of the project will be
regulated by the interested parties in accordance with going market terms
and in any case with no responsibility on the part of the promoting body or
the organizers of the contest.
art.10 Submission Dates

The project presentations must be received by 12 a.m. on 4 April 2002 at
contest headquarters: PMI, Via IV Novembre 119, 51100 Quarrata (PT), Italy.

art.11 Publication of Results

The promoting body will inform winners by telephone of the jury's decision,
by 8 April 2002. The prize-winning projects and other selected projects will
be presented at a ceremony on occasion of the Salone del Mobile of Milan, as
part of an itinerant exhibit in Tuscany, in sector exhibitions in Italy and
abroad, and at a specially-prepared Internet site. With their acceptance of
this document, the contestants authorize exhibition of their projects at
said events and also authorize publication of the projects, waiving any
recompense to the exception of mention of the author.

art.12 Restitution of Project Materials

All the project presentations not awarded prizes or selected for exhibition
may be picked up by their authors at contest headquarters within three
months of the official announcement of the jury's decision. Beyond said
term, the promoting body shall have no obligation in respect of safekeeping
of the materials.

art.13 Copyright

Each project presented will remain the property of its author, who is free
to protect his rights in it in the manners provided by law. For this reason,
the organizers of the contest hereby decline any and all responsibility for
any controversies that might arise later regarding the originality and/or
ownership of the works and for any claims by third parties regarding rights
in the works.