Participatory fail

You don’t win, you contribute.

About the energy of LOSING in architecture competitions.

What happens with the energy, enthusiasm and ideas of people Final Submission
losing competitions?. According to our productivist approach to all Linked with our proposal to “The future of Competitions –
technical manifestations we are convinced that winning is always TELL THEM WHAT THEY NEED”, our contribution to the next
the best, and often forget that most of the times failure is the best Conditions Issue #7: The Future of Competitions will be a reflexion
way to learn. on the posibilities of using the initial energy of all participants into
any competition.
What about focusing on the potential of loser’s original enthusiasm,
in their energy and ideas while sending a proposal? What about to While developing our submission, we will ask participants
generate a new model where the final entry is generated from the to send pictures, plans or the like of (in their opinion) failed
interaction, influence and mutation of ALL the entries? architecture competitions. All the participants will highlight the
remarkable concepts and / or solutions they find in the proposal.
Thinkers may enter a competition like organisms into an We will map the highlighted metodologies, systems, solutions
ecosystem. Deeply convinced that their behaviour [ideas] will and concepts in order to create a sort of primeval cartography of
interact with the other’s. Ideas can be adopted and remixed, brilliant thinking in architecture.
nurturing a kind of DNA that will generate the final solution.
Adicionally the monetary prize of the Conditions Competition will
You won’t win, you will contribute. be distributed into all contributors, just in case we win.

The result of competition will be promoted via blogs in order to

expand the content generated in Conditions Issue #7: The Future
of Competitions.

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Pic:L’Œuf by André Bruyère. Project n°272 presented to the competition for the Centre
Beaubourg. It failed but now you can find similar buildings in London and Barcelona. - Lukas Pauer (Switzerland) + dpr-barcelona (Spain)