TAO-Pilipinas

Registration and submission deadlines for the YP Design Challenge have been changed. Please be advised of the following revisions in the competition schedules:

Revised Schedule for Design Challenge 1: Sustainable Shelter

Registration Deadline : September 16, 2008
Submission Period : October 1-24, 2008
Results Announced : December 2008

Revised Schedule for Design Challenge 2: Trash Transformation

Registration Deadline : October 17, 2008
Submission Period : November 3-21, 2008
Results Announced : December 2008

Revised Schedule for Design Challenge 3: Portable Playground

Registration Deadline : October 17, 2008
Submission Period : November 3-21, 2008
Results Announced : December 2008

For more information and updates about the competition, please visit the website www.ypdesignchallenge.tao-pilipinas.org or call Ms. Mai Ilagan at telephone numbers 441-0998 or 0929-6800924.

TAO-Pilipinas recently launched its new YP project, the Young Professionals Design Challenge, at the Institute of Social Order (ISO), Ateneo de Manila University last June 6, 2008. The project is a design competition for young professionals that aims to generate ideas and design solutions for sustainable community development in urban poor settlements.

The YP Design Challenge is comprised of three design challenges, working around themes of sustainable community development. Each category has its own set of competition guidelines, judging criteria and prizes. Participants may choose to join in any or all of the following design challenge categories: Sustainable Shelter, Trash Transformation, and Portable Playground.

Registration is now open and closes on August 29, 2008. The competition guidelines and registration forms may be downloaded from the YP Design Challenge Website or request for copies can be made by calling Mai Ilagan at (63-2) 441-0998.

TAO-Pilipinas is pleased to inform you that we are about to launch the YP Design Challenge, a design ideas competition for young professionals and students that aims to generate ideas and design solutions for sustainable community development in urban poor settlements.

The YP Design Challenge is comprised of three design challenges, working around themes of sustainable community development. Each category has its own set of competition guidelines, judging criteria and prizes. Participants may choose to join in any or all of the following design challenge categories:

Design Challenge 1: Sustainable Shelter
Design Challenge 2: Trash Transformation
Design Challenge 3: Portable Playground

For our partners in the academe, we’re encouraging architecture/id, planning and engineering schools in Metro Manila to consider the design challenges in this competition as student design plate/project requirements for a semester. We see this competition as a vehicle for the students to directly deal with sustainability issues in their academic design assignments and offers design educators an opportunity to orient and guide the students on important ideas on sustainability in their design studios.

We’d like to invite you to the YP Design Challenge Launch on June 06, 2008 (Friday) at ISO-Ateneo (1:30pm). During the launch we shall be introducing the competition rules and guidelines as well as its website, www.ypdesignchallenge.tao-pilipinas.org. (This website can already be accessed for more information about the competition.)

We hope to see you at the project launch. Thank you very much for your continued support.

With summer just around the corner, the YP Program of TAO-Pilipinas started accepting applicants for its summer internship program. Six internship positions are available to senior students and new graduates of architecture and interior design, civil and geodetic engineering, and planning. The summer interns will work on TAO projects from April to May 2008.

The internship will focus on community-based technical assistance, fieldwork activities, and housing-related research works. We are looking for YP interns who have strong commitment to social housing and community development issues and a desire to develop their skills and experience. For more information, please click here.

Application requirements include submission of completed application form, resume with 2×2 ID picture and referee report (or referral letter). Interested graduates/ students may download and print the application forms and send to TAO-Pilipinas, 23A Mapagbigay Street, Barangay Pinyahan, Diliman, Quezon City 1100 or email completed forms to yp@tao-pilipinas.org.

Together with COPE Foundation in Bicol, TAO-Pilipinas conducted the Young Professionals Workshop on Social Housing in Legaspi City last January 21-25, 2008 with the theme, “Building Sustainable Communities in the Resettlement Sites of Albay, Bicol.” About 25 participants joined the five-day workshop whose main objective is to bring together technical professionals, affected communities in Albay, the government and NGOs in one forum to discuss resettlement planning and design issues and needs. It also aimed to revive the Bicol Young Professionals as a volunteer technical assistance group for poor communities.

Workshop participants included graduates and students from Bicol University Department of Architecture and Aquinas University Polytechnic Institute. They were joined by representatives from Bicol Urban Poor Coordinating Council (BUPCC) and community associations in the COPE-sponsored housing areas in Anislag Phase 2 and Taysan resettlement sites.

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