Roca One Day Design Challenge

The specific brief for the object to be designed will be announced on Saturday 30th September 2017.

Sustainability, personal wellbeing, accessibility and the lack of affordable housing form part of the everyday lives of the general public and, of course, this applies equally to their homes and bathrooms. However, the products available in this area do not always respond to these concerns.

Our aim is to involve the community of young designers in the research for original and innovative yet simple solutions, which improve users interaction with the bathroom products.

Another goal is to offer a platform to promote, facilitate and concentrate creativity in a display of fast and intensive work focused on bathrooms, an area that is traditionally not the subject of a great deal of innovation.

Participants can register at www.onedaydesignchallenge.net until 24:00 (GMT +04) on 27th September 2017. They can also register in person at Kr Infra Gala Campus, on the day of the event itself, 30th September 2017 from 09:00 and until 11:00.

When registering, participants should include the following information and documentation:

• Name and surname/s.
• School or company.
• Address (street number, town/city and postal code).
• Contact telephone number and e-mail.
• Copy of the valid ID or passport, as an image file attached. The file name should use the format: SURNAME_NAME.

Participants registering in person should bring their ID or passport along with them in order to enrol. Registration will not be admitted without a valid ID or passport.

Any registration submitted without any of the above information shall be null and void.

Only one registration per person can be accepted and, once the registration number has been confirmed, it can no longer be changed. Duplicated registrations by the same person will also be considered null and void.

This competition is aimed at students and young professionals living within the territory of Oman and who were born on or after the 30th September 1987 until the 30th September 1999.

Participants can take part individually or in groups of up to 3 members, on the condition that all of the members meet the aforementioned requirements.

Employees of companies that form part of the Roca Group and their families are excluded from participating.

At 09:30 am on 30th September, the design topic will be announced live at the venue of the event and a written copy will be given to all of the attendees.

The design period for the competition will run from09:45 am to 05:00 pm and participants can work on site or wherever they wish.

At 05:30 pm, the jury will deliberate in order to choose the winner projects of the 1st Roca One Day Design Challenge Oman edition. Meanwhile, there is going to be a cocktail organized for the participants.

At 7:30 pm, the award ceremony is going to take place and the jury will announce the list of the winners of the first, second and third prize.

The members of the jury will base their evaluations on the creativity and originality of the designs, as well as their viability, while also giving credit for the clarity, legibility and graphic design of the presentations.

The first prize-winner will receive a prize of 600 OMR.
The second prize-winner will receive a prize of 400 OMR.
The third prize-winner will receive a prize of 200 OMR.

In addition, the jury may discretionally award a special prize of OMR 200 provided by the We Are Water Foundation, to the project which significantly adheres to the value of sustainability. The jury may leave the said prize unawarded if in their opinion none of the projects significantly adheres to the value of sustainability and / or has not enough quality.

From 8:00 pm onwards, participants are invited to a party with music.

To design the projects, participants can use any manual or digital 2D, 3D tool, scale model, photograph, collage, etc. However, the concepts must be described and illustrated on two A3 sheets or less.

The projects can be submitted in two different methods:

1. At the desk indicated for the purpose, presented on an USB with the participant’s registration number written in marker on the outside. There should be no other files on the pen drive except the final competition files.
2. Participants are also allowed to submit their applications through the official website of Roca’s contest: www.onedaydesignchallenge.net

The submission period for projects is from 3:00 pm to 5:00 pm on 30th September. This deadline applies both in the case of participants working on site and those who have worked elsewhere.

In order to submit a project, it is essential that participants have enrolled previously within the established period. Only one project may be submitted by each participant or group registered.

To guarantee the confidentiality of the participants, the real name of the individual or group participating should not appear on the A3 sheets submitted. The projects will be identified by the title and registration number.

Each participant or group should submit 2 digital files which must comply with the following specifications without exception:

• A single PDF file which may include up to two A3 sheets and which must contain: the number assigned at registration, title and description of the project in 150 words or less (minimum font size 24 pt), and image/s of the design.
• A JPEG file of 1280 x 720 pixels containing the most representative image of the project, as well as the title, without any type of additional information.
• The PDF and JPEG files should not take up more than 1,500 Kb each.
• The name of both files should be the registration number only without any additional characters.

Any entry that does not meet the abovementioned requirements will not be evaluated by the jury.