Objective: Designing innovative concepts for bathroom-related products.

Topic: The specific brief for the object to be designed will be announced on Friday, 8^th October 2021

Context: The context has changed. Since the outbreak of the Covid-19 pandemic and its subsequent global impact, we have seen that designers have had to adapt quickly to new needs and to a different global reality.  Hygiene, disinfection, social distance… these are now part of the new context, joining sustainability, personal care, accessibility and the lack of affordable housing, which have been key elements in the agenda of the last few years.

Due to this exceptional health situation, Roca One Day Design Challenge Poland 2021 will be held online.

Our aim is to involve the community of young designers in the research for original and innovative yet simple solutions, which improve the user’s interaction with bathroom products, for both private and public spaces.

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.

Registration: Participants can register at www.onedaydesignchallenge.net until 11:59 p.m. (UTC+2) on 5^th October 2021. The organization has extended the registration until 7th October at 11:59 p.m. (UTC+2).

Once the number of 400 registered participants is achieved, the registration period will be closed, regardless of the date.

Moreover, the organization can cancel the event at any time, should the health situation require it. 

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.

●      Date of birth

To register, participants registering through the official Roca page www.onedaydesignchallenge.net should upload all the required information/documents before 11:59 p.m. (UTC+2) on 5th October 2021. The organization has extended the date to upload the required information/documents until  7th October  11:59 p.m. (UTC+2). 

Registration is not possible without all required information.

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 Poland and who were born on or after the 9^th October 1991 until the 8^th October 2003.

Participants can take part individually or in groups of up to 2 members, on the condition that all members meet the aforementioned requirements.

The following persons are excluded from participating:

● The winners of the 1st, 2nd or 3rd and We Are Water Foundation prizes of the previous editions of the competition.

● Employees of companies that are part of the Roca Group and their relatives up to 4th degree of consanguinity

Logistics: At 9:30 a.m. on 8^th October, the design topic will be announced on the Roca One Day Design Challenge Instagram account (@rocachallenge) and it will be published online at the website. (https://www.onedaydesignchallenge.net/en/contests/poland/poland-2021).

The design period for the competition will run from 9:30 a.m. to 5:00 p.m.

All participants will be able to submit their projects from 3:30 p.m. to 5:00 p.m. to the website:

(https://www.onedaydesignchallenge.net/en/contests/poland/poland-2021).

Participants will find the project submission icon on the “Poland 2021” website mentioned above. Please note that when clicking on the submission icon, a new screen asking the participant to introduce the user and password generated when subscribing to the contest will appear. Only after having introduced such user and password, participants will be able to upload the documents of the project. 

At 5:30 p.m., the jury will deliberate in order to choose the winning projects of the 3^rd Roca One Day Design Challenge Poland edition. The jury will also elect a first, second and third substitute winners just in case any of the awarded projects do not meet the conditions set out in these rules.

At 9:15 p.m. the jury will announce the list of the winners of the first, second and third prize through the Roca One Day Design Challenge Instagram account @rocachallenge.

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

Due to the current climate situation and to the commitment of Roca One Day Design Challenge to the United Nations Sustainable Development Goals, all presented designs must take into account sustainability and the saving of water in order to aim for the prizes.

The first prize-winner will receive a prize of 1,000 EUR.

The second prize-winner will receive a prize of 700 EUR.

The third prize-winner will receive a prize of 400 EUR.

The Jury reserves its right to leave any of the said prizes unawarded if the project proves to be plagiarism or in any other way infringes the copyrights of third parties. The Jury also reserves its right to leave the said prizes unawarded if in their opinion none of the projects submitted to the present contest significantly adheres to the value of sustainability and/or has enough quality to deserve an award.

Once winners are communicated by email about their winner condition, the winners will have to prove the veracity of their date of birth and residence stated in the form when subscribing to the present contest by either (a) sending a copy of their ID or passport to the email designchallenge.pl@roca.net  or (b) showing to the Roca personnel set in IWP  - Warsaw their ID or passport and allowing them to make a photocopy of the same.  If the winners do not succeed in proving their date of birth and/or residence by any of the means described above no later than 15 days after the award communication, they will be automatically disqualified and their winner position will accrue in the benefit of the following finalist according to the Jury votes.

Awards specified above shall be transferred to bank accounts indicated by the award winners.

The award shall be paid in PLN currency after conversion according to the NBP sell rate on the date the award is granted.

The award amount shall be taxed under the general rules of Poland.

The Award Ceremony will take place at Institute of Industrial Design on 22^nd October at 5.00 p.m. In case of suspension for health reasons, it will be announced in advance. Roca will bear the transport costs of the winners to the Award Ceremony.

Given the special Covid situation, Winners will maintain its condition of awarded person/group on the Roca One Day Design Challenge Poland 2021 3^rd Edition despite their absence at the Award Ceremony.

Guests attending any of the competition's on-site events must: (a) follow all sanitary and prevention measures there applied (as a matter of example, allow the organisation to take their temperature before entering the contest premisses, wear face mask, clean their hands with hydro alcohol regularly, etc)  and (b) fill out a declaration of self-responsibility before attending the event, in which they will exclude Roca from any liability for the spread of the COVID through their attendance at the event. If any participant or attendee denies to follow the implemented sanitary and prevention measures applied by the contest organization, or happen to have a temperature superior to 37º Celsius degrees, they will be banned from entering the contest event premisses and they will either participate on-line or be disqualified for not participating.

If at any moment before the payment of the prizes the Organization detects that any of the awarded projects does 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 of go up one place in the winners’ classification. If any prize cannot be awarded because there are not enough substitute winners, such prize will be declared as unawarded.

Presentation: 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 must be submitted to the website with the participant’s registration number.

The submission period for projects is from 3:30 p.m. to 5:00 p.m. on 8^th October.

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

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

Each participant or group should submit 2 digital files with the following specifications:

● 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.

● Although not mandatory, the registration number may also be included in the images of the project.

The projects must be preferably presented in English but Polish shall also be admitted.

Any entry that does not meet the above-mentioned requirements will not be evaluated by the jury.

Please note that the jury will only use the PDF document for evaluation purposes. The JPEG document will serve only for communication and divulgation purposes.

Other aspects: The spirit of this event strives to foster the participants’ creativity during the competition. As such, the projects submitted must be original and must not have been used previously for any other purpose.

The projects submitted must consist of a realistic object with a good design, which considers functional criteria and is consistent with the topic of the competition announced by the Organization and is feasible according to technologies existing at the date of the competition.

The Intellectual Property of the projects submitted belongs to their authors. However, the company Roca Sanitario, S.A. shall have preferential rights for a period of 1 year to reach an agreement with any participant of the competition with respect to the rights to use the submitted projects.

By enrolling in this competition all participants (including the winner/s and finalists):

(I) assign to the companies that form part of the Roca Group, the reproduction, distribution and communication to the public rights over their projects submitted to the contest, for all countries in the world and for the maximum period permitted by law in each one of such countries for the purpose of promotion of their projects in publications of general interest and/or specialized magazines, as well as on the websites, editions and publications of Roca, and also on the contest website. Roca Group will be entitled to assign to third parties, without the previous written consent of the authors, the right of reproduction and publication of the projects submitted by the authors to the contest for the territorial and temporal scope they deem necessary, for the sole and only purpose of promoting the authors projects worldwide; and

(II) authorise the companies that form part of the Roca Group to publish any images that may be taken of them during the course of the competition on any medium, whether in photographic or video format. This authorization is deemed to be granted for the entire world and for the maximum period of time authorized by law, but not shorter than twelve months.

Any issues or disputes that may arise in relation to the interpretation of these terms and conditions shall be settled by the jury in accordance with the provisions included therein. Any aspect that is not expressly covered in the terms and conditions shall be settled in line with the principles of fairness. The jury’s decision will be final.

By enrolling in this competition, you agree that your personal details will be included in a file owned by Roca Sanitario, S.A. (Spain) Avenida Diagonal 513, 08029 Barcelona - Spain which is responsible for processing this file, the purpose of which is to manage participation in the competition, in accordance with the Privacy Policy available at https://www.roca.com/legal/privacy-policy. 

Roca Sanitario S.A. shall share this file with Roca Polska Spółka z ograniczoną odpowiedzialnością for the only purpose of managing the competition. 

For any other purpose, the express consent of the candidates shall be required. 

Participants may exercise their rights of access, rectification, cancellation and opposition in writing to Roca Sanitario, S.A. Exercising the rights of cancellation and opposition shall result in the participant’s registration in the competition being withdrawn, as the details are required for managing the participation in the event. 

By enrolling in this competition, participants accept these terms and conditions which they confirm by checking the appropriate check-box in the registration form.

For more information, please contact us:

E-mail: designchallenge.pl@roca.net

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