Roca One Day Design Challenge

The specific brief for the object to be designed will be announced on Saturday 17^th November 2018.

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 15^th November 2018. They can also register in person at A4 Space at Al Serkal Avenue, on the day of the event itself, 17^th November 2018 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 enroll. 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 United Arab Emirates and who were born on or after the 18^th November 1988 until the 17^th November 2000.

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.

The following persons are excluded from participating:

• The winners of 1st, 2nd or 3rd p and We Are Water Foundation prize of the previous editions of the competition.
• Employees of companies that form part of the Roca Group and their relatives up to the 4th degree of consanguinity.

At 09:30 am on 17^th November, 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 from 09:45 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 3^rd Roca One Day Design Challenge UAE edition. Meanwhile, there is going to be a cocktail organized for the participants. The jury will also elect a first, second and third substitute winner just in case any of the awarded projects do not meet the conditions set out in these rules.

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 6,000 AED.

The second prize-winner will receive a prize of 4,000 AED.

The third prize-winner will receive a prize of 2,000 AED.

In addition, the jury may discretionally award a special prize of 2,000 AED 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.

Awards specified above shall be payed in cash to the award winners.

The awards shall be paid in AED.

In order to be eligible to receive the economic award corresponding to each position (first, second, third and WAWF prizes), the awarded person (and in case of groups, at least one of the members of the awarded group) shall be present in the Award Ceremony (7.30 pm at A4 Space at Serkal Avenue) to collect the award. 

If the awarded person (or at least one member of the awarded group) is not present during the Award Ceremony he/she (the group) will lose its right to the economic award but will maintain its condition of awarded person/group on the Roca One Day Design Challenge Dubai 2018. 

All the winners will also be invited to take part in a masterclass. The prize includes return transport from their home address within the national territory that the successful participants used to register for the competition, as well as lunch on the day of the visit. Both the transport and the lunch will be contracted by Roca.

If in any moment before the payment of the prizes the Organization detects that any of the awarded projects do not meet the conditions set out in these rules because it is not an original project or for any other reasons, the project affected by such circumstance will be disqualified and the following winners and substitute winners will upgrade one place in the winners classification. If any prize could not be awarded because there are no enough substitute winners, such prize will be declared as unawarded. 

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 only in a digital format the desk indicated for the purpose, presented on a 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.

The submission period for projects is from 3:00 pm to 5:00 pm on the 17^th of November. 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: title and description of the project in 150 words or less (minimum font size 24 pt), and image/s of the design.
  
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• 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.
  
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• 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.
• In addition to including the registration number in the name of the files, it may also be included in the images of the project, although this is not mandatory.

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