Yarışmalar-Competitions

Yarışma Özeti(Summary):
Blown glassware will be the protagonist of the fifth edition of the International Design Contest Trieste Contemporanea, a biennial event which aims at spreading the most original design expressions of the Central-Eastern European countries.

Together with the Venice Forum initiative, established last year on occasion of the Arts Biennale with the objective of assessing the state of culture in the countries of Central Eastern Europe, the design contest is one of the most significant events among those organised by the Trieste Contemporanea Committee to promote reciprocal understanding and exchange among the countries of this region of Europe by way of a wide range of cultural activities in the field of visual arts, music and cinema.

This year's contest is open to designers from 21 countries (Albania, Austria, Belarus, Bosnia Herzegovina, Bulgaria, Croatia, Czech Republic, Estonia, Federal Republic of Yugoslavia, Germany, Hungary, Italy, Latvia, Lithuania, Macedonia, Moldavia, Poland, Romania, Slovak Republic, Slovenia and Ukraine). The candidates are asked to submit a project for any type of functional object to be produced using the blown glass technique, the objective being that of stimulating a creative research capable of proposing new aesthetic and formal contemporary pathways in the specific tradition of the Muranese glassware industry.

An international jury, presided by Gillo Dorfles with the technical advise of the master glassblower Andrea Zilio, will award a first prize of 2500 EURO to the best project. The first prize also includes travel and accommodation in Murano (Venice) to assist to the execution of the prototype. The youngest designer among those selected will be awarded with the special BEBA prize and will be given the opportunity to participate to a workshop at the Scuola del Vetro Abate Zanetti in Murano by courtesy of the Trieste Contemporanea Committee.
All the selected projects will be realized in Murano by the Scuola del Vetro and will become part of an exhibition which starting from the lagoon city will subsequently travel to other cities of Europe, the first being Budapest.

The contest is the result of a collaboration among the Trieste Contemporanea Committee, the Scuola del Vetro Abate Zanetti and the Municipal Museums of Venice-Glass Museum of Murano, under the patronage of CEI (Central European Initiative), with the participation of the Kozep-Europai Kulturalis Intezet-Central European Cultural Institute (Budapest) and the Laura und Franz Leopoldt Foundation (Weissenstadt) and organised with the support of Regione Autonoma Friuli-Venezia Giulia and Fondazione CRTrieste.

Kimler katılabilir (Open to):

Katılım ücreti (Entry Fee):

Ödüller (Awards):
Selected project
- realisation of the prototype

City of Trieste Award (offered by the Fondazione CRTrieste) for the best Triestine designer if selected

Beba Prize (offered by the Laura und Franz Leupoldt Stiftung) for the youngest selected designer
- realisation of the prototype
- workshop at the the Scuola del Vetro Abate Zanetti, Murano
- travel and accommodation in Murano during the workshop

First prize
- 2500,00 euro
- realisation of the prototype
- travel and accommodation in Murano to assist in the execution of the prototype

Juri (Jury):
The selection panel is made by Rosa Barovier Mentasti (Scuola del Vetro Abate Zanetti, Murano), Janez Bogataj (University of Ljubljana), Attilia Dorigato (Civici Musei Veneziani-Museo del Vetro), Marco Romanelli (Abitare magazine), Giuseppe Ulian (Fine Arts Academy, Venezia), Toni Zuccheri (artist and designer) and presided by Gillo Dorfles.

İletişim Bilgileri (Contact): 
Address: the projects should be sent to:
Comitato Trieste Contemporanea
Via del Monte 2/1
34121 Trieste
Italy or to:
[email protected]
For further information, please contact the above address, 
Tel: 0039 040 639187 
Fax: 0039 040 367601.
The contest announcement and the application form are also available on the Trieste Contemporanea web-site www.tscont.ts.it

Blown glassware will be the protagonist of the fifth edition of the International Design Contest Trieste Contemporanea, a biennial event which aims at spreading the most original design expressions of the Central-Eastern European countries.

Together with the Venice Forum initiative, established last year on occasion of the Arts Biennale with the objective of assessing the state of culture in the countries of Central Eastern Europe, the design contest is one of the most significant events among those organised by the Trieste Contemporanea Committee to promote reciprocal understanding and exchange among the countries of this region of Europe by way of a wide range of cultural activities in the field of visual arts, music and cinema.

This year's contest is open to designers from 21 countries (Albania, Austria, Belarus, Bosnia Herzegovina, Bulgaria, Croatia, Czech Republic, Estonia, Federal Republic of Yugoslavia, Germany, Hungary, Italy, Latvia, Lithuania, Macedonia, Moldavia, Poland, Romania, Slovak Republic, Slovenia and Ukraine). The candidates are asked to submit a project for any type of functional object to be produced using the blown glass technique, the objective being that of stimulating a creative research capable of proposing new aesthetic and formal contemporary pathways in the specific tradition of the Muranese glassware industry.

An international jury, presided by Gillo Dorfles with the technical advise of the master glassblower Andrea Zilio, will award a first prize of 2500 EURO to the best project. The first prize also includes travel and accommodation in Murano (Venice) to assist to the execution of the prototype. The youngest designer among those selected will be awarded with the special BEBA prize and will be given the opportunity to participate to a workshop at the Scuola del Vetro Abate Zanetti in Murano by courtesy of the Trieste Contemporanea Committee.
All the selected projects will be realized in Murano by the Scuola del Vetro and will become part of an exhibition which starting from the lagoon city will subsequently travel to other cities of Europe, the first being Budapest.

The contest is the result of a collaboration among the Trieste Contemporanea Committee, the Scuola del Vetro Abate Zanetti and the Municipal Museums of Venice-Glass Museum of Murano, under the patronage of CEI (Central European Initiative), with the participation of the Kozep-Europai Kulturalis Intezet-Central European Cultural Institute (Budapest) and the Laura und Franz Leopoldt Foundation (Weissenstadt) and organised with the support of Regione Autonoma Friuli-Venezia Giulia and Fondazione CRTrieste.

Enrollment to the contest is free of charge. Those wishing to take part are asked to send the projects and the application form by 28 September 2002 to the following address:

Trieste Contemporanea Committee,
via del Monte 2/1,
34121 Trieste,
Italy or to [email protected]
For further information please contact us at the address reported above, 
Phone: 0039 040 639287  
Fax: 0039 040 367601. The announcement and all other documentation regarding the activity of the Committee are available on the 
website www.tscont.ts.it

Blown Glassware
Design in the furnace
Purpose of the contest
The Trieste Contemporanea Committee organizes, with the contribution of Regione Autonoma Friuli-Venezia Giulia and Fondazione CRTrieste, the fifth edition of the international design contest "Trieste Contemporanea" with the aim of spreading the most original design expressions of the Central-Eastern European countries.

Contest 2002: Blown Glassware
The 2002 initiative is dedicated to blown glass with the objective of stimulating a creative research which would propose new aesthetic and formal contemporary pathways in the specific tradition of the Muranese glassware industry.
The candidates wishing to take part in this contest are asked to submit a project for any type of functional object to be produced utilizing the blown glass technique and eventual successive cold-crafting. In order to emphasize the specific objectives of the overall theme of the contest, projects that involve the crafting of glass through the use of moulds entailing a previous refractory construction of the latter will not be accepted.

Criteria for admission to the contest
The contest is open to all participants born or being citizens of the CEI countries (Albania, Austria, Belarus, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Bulgaria, Croatia, Czech Republic, Federal Republic of Yugoslavia, Hungary, Italy, Macedonia, Moldova, Poland, Romania, Slovak Republic, Slovenia, Ukraine,) and to those born or being citizens of Estonia, Germany, Latvia and Lithuania.
Eventual groups will have to be made up from a majority of participants born or being citizens of the above stated countries.

Terms of participation
Registration: 
Enrollment in the contest is free of charge. In order to become a participant, candidates are asked to submit their projects in the format required and to make sure that the specific application form is properly filled out and received by the Committee within the given deadline. Participating groups should submit the application form in the name of the group representative and then indicate the names and citizenships of all group members.
Terms of project presentation: 

The projects are to be presented on a maximum of 4 sheets utilizing a scale of preferably 1:1 and are to be accompanied by a description in Italian and/or English (maximum one page i.e. 1500 spaces) and the application form. The projects should include all the information necessary toward the realization of the prototype. Where needed, it is advisable to present, in addition to the frontal depiction and the axonometric sketch, also a detailed impression from the top and the side. In the event of the proposed object consisting of more assembled parts, it will be the responsibility of the designer to present the scaled view of the single components. The total composition and eventual modes of assembly will be included in the axonometric sketch. The submission of the project will be possible also by e-mail following the same terms of presentation; in this case the texts will be sent in rtf and the images in jpg format.

All the proposed material will be treated with utmost confidentiality and under no circumstances it will be shown to a third party -i.e. to anyone not belonging to the examining commission - before the closing date. The Committee reserves the right to feature the project and curriculum of selected and prize-winning participants in the publication which will document the contest. Due to the above, the chosen contestants will be asked to submit their Curriculum Vitae.
The Committee’s office will not accept any material to which postage costs are due.

The material submitted will not be returned.
Deadline: the projects and attached material should be delivered to the Committee by the 28th of September 2002, even in the case of postal shipment.

Address: the projects should be sent to:
Comitato Trieste Contemporanea
Via del Monte 2/1
34121 Trieste
Italy or to:
[email protected]
For further information, please contact the above address, call 0039 040 639187 or fax 0039 040 367601.
The contest announcement and the application form are also available on the Trieste Contemporanea web-site www.tscont.ts.it

The judging panel
The selection panel is made by Rosa Barovier Mentasti (Scuola del Vetro Abate Zanetti, Murano), Janez Bogataj (University of Ljubljana), Attilia Dorigato (Civici Musei Veneziani-Museo del Vetro), Marco Romanelli (Abitare magazine), Giuseppe Ulian (Fine Arts Academy, Venezia), Toni Zuccheri (artist and designer) and presided by Gillo Dorfles; they will select the projects with the most merit among those submitted and will assign the prizes according to these criteria:
1. Originality and depth of concept with respect to the feasibility and the terms of the contest
2. Legibility of presentation
3. Economic feasibility for the replication of said object on a commercial scale

Prizes
All the selected and winning projects will be realised by the Scuola del Vetro Abate Zanetti in Murano with the consultancy of the master glassblower Andrea Zilio who reserves the right to apply eventual technical modification in case they are needed in the realisation process.
All the selected designers will be allowed to be present during the execution and the winners of the contest will be expressly invited to Venice by the Trieste Contemporanea Committee.

The prizes are the following:
Selected project
- realisation of the prototype

City of Trieste Award (offered by the Fondazione CRTrieste) for the best Triestine designer if selected

Beba Prize (offered by the Laura und Franz Leupoldt Stiftung) for the youngest selected designer
- realisation of the prototype
- workshop at the the Scuola del Vetro Abate Zanetti, Murano
- travel and accommodation in Murano during the workshop

First prize
- 2500,00 euro
- realisation of the prototype
- travel and accommodation in Murano to assist in the execution of the prototype

Copyrights
The designer of the object is in all effect owner of its copyrights. It is the responsibility of the contestant, if he/she so wishes, to protect his design through application of the copyright condition or licence application before submitting said project. Unauthorised reproduction is forbidden.
The authors, whose projects will be developed in Murano, cede the ownership of the prototypes to the Trieste Contemporanea Committee.

Exhibition of the selected projects and prototypes
The selected and winning prototypes, executed in Murano, will be exhibited in Italy and abroad by the Trieste Contemporanea Committee.

Publication of the contest results
At the conclusion of the initiative, a special issue of the twice-yearly internationally distributed magazine "Trieste Contemporanea" will be dedicated to the contest. The magazine is also available on the web-site www.tscont.ts.it