Win a trip to London Festival of Architecture 2010

Submitted by Creative Cities on Monday, 11 January 201025 Comments

Update: entries in this com­pet­i­tion have now closed. To view the short­l­is­ted entrants, check out our Show Us Your City round-up, the win­ner will be announced shortly.

Show us your city and join the dis­cus­sion about build­ing more cre­at­ive, inclus­ive, sus­tain­able cit­ies in East Asia. Con­tri­bu­tions, com­ments and sub­mis­sions to our call-outs all make you eli­gible to win a trip to the UK to exper­i­ence the 2010 Lon­don Fest­ival of Architecture.

Three ways to enter: 1) Show us your city in a blog post, photo set, video or map. 2) Submit a story and become a contributor to the site. 3) Share your thoughts on posts that interest you and become a regular commentor.

Three ways to enter: 1) Show us your city in a blog post, photo set, video or map. 2) Sub­mit a story and become a con­trib­utor to the site. 3) Share your thoughts on posts that interest you and become a reg­u­lar commentor.

How do I enter?

There are sev­eral ways you can enter this competition:

1. Show us your city: take us on a jour­ney through the streets of your neigh­bour­hood, tell us what inspires you, what frus­trates you, and what you makes your part of the world unique. This can take the form of a blog post, photo set, video, annot­ated map or you may sub­mit an exist­ing pro­ject which tells the story of your cre­at­ive city. See our ori­ginal post on this com­pet­i­tion for more examples and ideas for your entry.

2. Con­trib­ute a story: share your opin­ions and exper­i­ences in a 500+ word blog post that relates to cre­at­ive cit­ies in our region. Email us with your post idea to develop your story.

3. Be an out­stand­ing com­menter: add your thoughts to our posts on a reg­u­lar basis, help us see the issues from your per­spect­ive, tell us about your exper­i­ences and sug­gest ideas and stor­ies for your fel­low read­ers to explore.

How will a win­ner be selected?

A panel of Cre­at­ive Cit­ies East Asia con­trib­ut­ors and spe­cial guests with expert­ise in this field will be invited to view a short­l­ist of final­ists in late March. This panel will be asked to decide which of the com­ments, con­tri­bu­tions or sub­mis­sions have stim­u­lated the most dis­cus­sion and thought and which have spread the ideas of cre­at­ive city-making in our region. This panel will determ­ine the win­ning entry.

Who can enter?

Entry is open to res­id­ents of any of the 12 coun­tries within the scope of the Cre­at­ive Cit­ies East Asia blog, namely; Aus­tralia, China, Indone­sia, Japan, Korea, Malay­sia, New Zea­l­and, Phil­ip­pines, Singa­pore, Taiwan, Thai­l­and and Vietnam.

Shoreditch, London | Photo by Jess Scully

Shored­itch, Lon­don | Photo by Jess Scully

What can I win?

Cre­at­ive Cit­ies East Asia is offer­ing an oppor­tun­ity for pro­fes­sional devel­op­ment through attend­ance at the Lon­don Fest­ival of Archi­tec­ture 2010, which takes place June 19 — July 4, 2010. Flights, acco­mod­a­tion and some expenses will be covered. Win­ning this prize does not guar­an­tee par­ti­cip­a­tion in the festival.

When do entries close?

Entries close Monday, March 22, 2010. A short­l­ist of final­ists will be pos­ted that week and the win­ner will be announced on Wed­nes­day, March 31.

How do I sub­mit my entry?

You can email your entry to us at info (at) cre­at­ive­cit­ies (dot) org (dot) uk or simply add a link in the com­ments sec­tion here.

Any other questions?

Post your ques­tions below and we’ll answer them.

25 Comments »

  • peppy said:

    cur­rently, i live in one city in north east UK, but im ori­gin­ally from Asia. is it OK to cre­ate the city where i am liv­ing now? thanks

    29 January 2010 at 19:42
  • Jess Scully said:

    Hi Peppy,

    You’re wel­come to show us either your cur­rent home or your former home, or to con­trast the two, we’d be inter­ested in your per­spect­ives hav­ing exper­i­enced urban life in the UK and Asia.

    Look­ing for­ward to see­ing your entry!

    1 February 2010 at 00:24
  • peppy said:

    ow, that would be nice. thank you. but i don’t have many col­lec­tion i bring to here to show my city in Asia, just a few pho­tos. is it pos­sible if my friend in my homet­own take a pic­tures for me, and we do it as a group?

    10 February 2010 at 00:59
  • Sari Ajah said:

    How many win­ner will be selec­ted?
    Thanks ;)

    17 February 2010 at 03:44
  • Jess Scully said:

    Hi Peppy and Sari,

    Thanks for your interest in the com­pet­i­tion, you are more than wel­come to work with a team of con­trib­ut­ors how­ever there is only one prize to be awar­ded, so you will have to find the best way to share it among your team if you are selec­ted as our winner.

    Good luck!
    Jess

    17 February 2010 at 23:07
  • Melissa said:

    Please pick me to win iv never been to Lon­don and I realy want to go bad i dont have money to go there.

    6 March 2010 at 20:52
  • rizki said:

    how do we send our data? Thx

    12 March 2010 at 11:35
  • Fung Yu said:

    Hi All,

    Here’s my entry:

    http://virtualjournals.net/2010/03/19/multi-faceted-landscapes-of-manila/

    Enjoy! :-)

    19 March 2010 at 07:20
  • Hilda said:

    Hi. I would like to sub­mit my entire blog My Manila at http://manila-photos.blogspot.com.

    It’s noth­ing fancy, just a photo (or more) a day of the mega-city that is Metro Manila. I’ve missed some days in the past, but I’ve been blog­ging about my crazy, dirty, crowded, but wonderful-in-so-many-ways home for two years now. Accord­ing to my own tag cloud, I’ve pos­ted archi­tec­tural pho­tos more than any other topic, but I try to fea­ture many other things too, like food, art, theater, Filipino cus­toms and his­tory. Some­times, I also bring my read­ers out­side of Metro Manila, when I go on trips with my fam­ily and friends. I don’t always post just nice things either—poverty, poor urban plan­ning, pol­lu­tion and gov­ern­ment cor­rup­tion are also real­it­ies of liv­ing in Manila.

    Even if it doesn’t win, I hope that many of you will begin to appre­ci­ate and under­stand Manila bey­ond what reaches inter­na­tional news through my blog. In the end, that’s what keeps me post­ing, even when my work and other respons­ib­il­it­ies make it dif­fi­cult to find the time.

    Thank you.

    21 March 2010 at 10:49
  • Keishka said:

    Full View
    SHOW US Your City
    …
    From:
    Keishka Hanandhita
    …
    View Con­tact
    To: info [at] cre­at­ive­cit­ies [dot] org [dot] uk

    Keishkara_Hanandhita_Putri_Essay.doc (33KB)
    Dear Creativecities.org.uk,
    I’m Keishkara Hanandhita Putri from Jakarta, Indone­sia.
    Here are my entry sub­mis­sion for Show Us Your City Contest.

    I made three blog posts about my cre­at­ive Jakarta :) When writ­ing the entries, I’d like people in the world to know Jakarta as what Jakarta is! The sweet and the fun­nily bit­ter side (eg: the traffic jams). Every cit­ies in this world have prob­lems, and so does Jakarta. I bet aside of the traffic jams, people still would love to visit Jakarta for its dynam­ic­ally grow­ing cre­at­ive sides!

    Cre­at­ive Des­tin­a­tions: Tebet
    http://keishkainwonderland.blogspot.com/2010/03/creative-destination-tebet.html

    Jakarta is a big city and it has so many cre­at­ive des­tin­a­tions. I choose one dis­trict in Jakarta which have the most cre­at­ive shops, it’s Tebet area of Jakarta! : )

    Jakarta Street Tales
    http://keishkainwonderland.blogspot.com/2010/03/jakarta-street-tales.html

    Like it or not, we’re still deal­ing with the traffic jam prob­lems. But hey! There are 5+1 things you don’t know (and can enjoy) about Jakarta streets! :p

    Youth Speaks
    http://keishkainwonderland.blogspot.com/2010/03/youth-speaks.html
    To know the city is to know the people. You can see how these Jakarta’s bright­est kids say­ing their point of views about Jakarta the Cre­at­ive City.

    21 March 2010 at 16:23
  • Keishka said:

    test test. hehe dear cre­at­ive cit­ies & other participants : )

    here are my blog entries for Show Us Your City com­pet­i­tion. thank uuu : )

    http://keishkainwonderland.blogspot.com/2010/03/creative-destination-tebet.html
    http://keishkainwonderland.blogspot.com/2010/03/jakarta-street-tales.html
    http://keishkainwonderland.blogspot.com/2010/03/youth-speaks.html

    21 March 2010 at 16:28
  • Jess Scully said:

    Thanks for all your won­der­ful entries! You’ve still got a few hours left, so get posting!

    22 March 2010 at 07:20
  • Febi said:

    I hope I’m not late XD

    this is my post for Show Us Your City com­pet­i­tion: http://jurnalfebi.blogspot.com/2010/03/arabian-atmosphere-in-jakarta.html

    thank you!

    22 March 2010 at 11:38
  • Loula + Jeremy said:

    ‘ello ‘ello
    us little spiders have been spin­ning webs of magic, film and audio over the last week and have had a mar­vel­lous adven­ture spin­ning it all together for you.… it’s been an exhilir­at­ing jour­ney for us and hope you all get alot out of watch­ing it-newtown, sydney has many a secret to inspire urban com­muntiies around the world.…
    we are cur­rently entangled in that wide world web, fig­ur­ing out how to get edit­ing pro­grams to export and videos to encode but we will be post­ing the link to check this film out in no time as our applic­a­tion to the fest­ival of archi­tec­ture com­pet­i­tion and con­tri­bu­tion to this won­der­ful pro­ject of story shar­ing.
    get excited!
    Loula and Jeremy

    22 March 2010 at 13:55
  • Tyran of Cardboardia said:

    I really want to mater­i­al­ised one of Card­boar­dia towns in Asia.
    And here is map of ima­gin­ary town (it not spe­shial made for this, but it still town and real­istic plan to build it in Asia)
    http://www.cardboardia.info/map.swf

    Yours,
    Sergey Kor­sakov
    22.03.10 Warsaw.

    22 March 2010 at 20:51
  • Loula + Jeremy said:

    Ladies and Gen­tle­man.….
    We have spent the last three days end­lessly learn­ing about all things tech­nical and now, with a pocket deep of video encod­ing, and inter­net upload­ing, we bring to you our first ever film…
    COLOURING OUTSIDE THE LINES
    http://vimeo.com/10399078
    We hope you enjoy this show­case of the vibrant com­munity of the inner west­ern sub­urbs of Sydney, Aus­tralia. Here we give you a taste of the rich vari­ety of ini­ti­at­ives going on that can be an inspir­a­tion to any com­munties exper­i­en­cing the pres­sures of city liv­ing, gentri­fic­a­tion, and rising urban density.We sin­cerely hope this will be con­sidered as an entry for the Lon­don Fest­ival of Archi­tec­ture — we sin­cerely hope to be able to share our own stor­ies within that forum also.
    Enjoy!

    24 March 2010 at 09:38
  • Jeremino said:

    I’ve just been look­ing through the Fest­ival of Archi­tec­ture web­site, and it looks amaz­ing. So many out­door activ­it­ies and events. I like the hub struc­ture which encour­ages broad regions of the city to par­ti­cip­ate. It’s far more organic and com­munity based than what i expec­ted before first vis­it­ing the site. There seems to be a genu­ine push from within the fest­ival to pro­mote the trans­par­ency of Lon­dons devel­op­ment plans — through events like:
    — “Plan­ning in Lon­don in a New Polit­ical and Eco­nomic Cli­mate“
    — “LFA Clerken­well & City of Lon­don Hub walk­ing tour 1″

    My per­sonal favor­ite how­ever is the pub­lic street side din­ner party…
    The fest­ival would def­in­itely be best exper­i­enced on street level… trav­el­ling from hub to hub by bike.

    Well done to all other enrants and best of luck, one of us will be enjoy­ing Lon­don in a few months :-) … espe­cially of interest was the 360 degree pho­to­graphs of manilla… what amaz­ing technology!

    29 March 2010 at 12:39
  • Jeremino said:

    p.s. This is jeremy from loula and jeremy :-)
    ciao

    29 March 2010 at 12:42
  • lucy said:

    who won this competition?

    8 April 2010 at 23:38
  • amit solanki said:

    this is my city rajkot in india (gujarat) i send link o my city in you tube my mobile no ia +919574447574
    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=H1M8IDduNXA

    25 May 2010 at 08:18
  • amit solanki said:

    i am amit this is my city rajkot my num­ber is +919574447574
    this is the link of my city rajkot

    25 May 2010 at 08:20
  • amit solanki said:

    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=H1M8IDduNXA hiiiiiiiiiiiiiii i am amit my number+9574447574

    25 May 2010 at 08:20
  • yah said:

    i am won­der that there is not name of INDIA in the list of 12 coun­try , it means that i can’t make story on a place which is in india . Am i right.. , and you should be right because there is not cre­ativ­ity in india ..

    2 July 2010 at 02:57

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