12.07.07 Registration Deadline Extended: OEM Post Disaster Housing Design Competition
What if a Category 3 Hurricane were to hit NYC? The NYC Office of Emergency Management (OEM) is sponsoring a design competition to enhance the city’s ability to provisionally house residents after a major coastal storm. The winners of the open competition will be awarded $10,000 to further develop their submissions in the second phase of the competition. The competition jury will also award 10 honorable mentions $500 each. Submissions are due 01.04.08.

12.14.07 Call for Submissions: CAE Educational Facility Design Awards
The CAE Educational Facility Design Awards program is open to projects for pre-K, K-12, higher education, alternative, and unique learning environments. The program recognizes outstanding learning environment planning and design internationally. The awards recognize critical evaluation, thoughtful planning and design, and appropriate experimentation, not as an end in itself but in the context of clients’ needs.

12.21.07 Call for Papers: DMI International Education Conference
The Design Management Institute (DMI) will host the conference, “Design Thinking: New Challenges for Designers, Managers and Organizations,” which will take place 04.14-15.08 in Paris, France. DMI invites researchers and practitioners to submit paper proposals that contribute to theory building, provide examples of empirical research, or use case studies to illustrate how, when, and why designing turns into an organizational asset and a tool for managers. The program will comprise keynote presentations, panel discussions, full paper presentations, and poster sessions. For consideration, interested individuals may e-mail 1000-word abstract proposals.

12.27.07 Competition: Rotch Traveling Scholarships
The Boston Society of Architects announces a two-stage design competition where one young designer will receive a stipend of $35,000 to spend eight months traveling the world. Established in 1883 for the “advancement of education in architecture,” the Rotch Traveling Scholarship is the oldest program of its kind in the U.S. To be eligible for the scholarship, designers must be U.S. citizens under 35-years-old on January 1. They also must have either a degree from an accredited U.S. school of architecture and one year of full-time professional experience in a MA-based architecture firm or a degree from an accredited MA-based architecture school.

1.11.08 Call for Proposals: 2008 National Preservation Conference
The 2008 National Preservation Conference seeks proposals for education sessions or poster presentations. Areas of interest include green building, recent past and modernism, teardowns and McMansions in older and historic neighborhoods, urban revitalization and adaptive use, rural revitalization, historic house museums, and historic roads and scenic by-ways.

2.11.08 Call for Submissions: Young Architects Forum 2008: Resonance
Young architects and designers are invited to submit work under this year’s theme, Resonance, which posits that architecture is an ideas profession. Projects of all types, either theoretical or real and executed in any medium, are welcome. The jury will select work for presentation in public forums, an online installation, and an exhibition at the Architectural League of New York beginning in May 2008. Winners will receive a cash prize of $1,000. A poster of the winning entries will be published and distributed nationally, as will a catalogue of winning work published by the Architectural League and Princeton Architectural Press.