2009 Oculus Editorial Calendar
If you are an architect by training or see yourself as an astute observer of New York’s architectural and planning scene, note that OCULUS editors want to hear from you! Projects/topics may be anywhere, but architects must be New York-based. The themes:

Spring Issue: Elevating Architecture / Design Literacy for All. Closed.

Summer Issue: AIANY 2009 Design Awards and AIANY/BSA Biennial Design Type Awards. Closed.

Fall Issue: Carbon Neutral Now. The new green frontier, carbon neutrality, researched, explored, planned, and designed at all scales by New York architects.
06.01.09: Suggestion Deadline

Winter Issue: Health & Architecture. Architecture designed to promote fitness, health, and wellness will be profiled. Projects selected from within this growing field will demonstrate sensitivity to generational and demographic issues, sustainability, and technology.
08.01.09: Suggestion Deadline

If you have suggestions, please contact OCULUS editor-in-chief Kristen Richards.

03.18.09 Call for Entries: Project Earth Day Student Competition
The third annual Project Earth Day Student Competition will explore where fashion collides with architecture. Students are challenged to suspend their disbelief, play with scale and proportion, and design a garment inspired by a reevaluation of anything in their environment. On 04.23.09, the chosen looks will make their debut on the Project Earth Day runway and be judged by a panel of celebrities and top professionals in the design industry.

03.20.09 Call for Entries: Form Shift Vancouver
The Architectural Institute of British Columbia and the City of Vancouver are jointly-sponsoring an open ideas competition. The City of Vancouver has developed Climate Change Action Plans as well as the EcoDensity Charter. Vancouver was the first city in Canada to adopt The 2030 Challenge for green house gas reduction as part of their effort to become “the greenest city in the world”. FormShift Vancouver challenges entrants to give shape to these goals through ideas and design solutions that will help shape the future of the city.

03.31.09 Call for Submissions: FIGMENT City of Dreams Mini Golf Submissions
FIGMENT is looking for artists, architects, and sculptors to create one-of-a-kind mini-golf holes on Governors Island. This is not your typical golf course, but rather the City of Dreams Mini-Golf Course, designed to free mini-golf from the windmill and dinosaur set and allow artists to release their creativity in a forum usually more associated with tourist traps.

04.06.09 Call for Nominations: New York Designs 2009: Public
This juried lecture series provides a forum for the presentation of innovative and accomplished work built in New York City. This year’s theme, Public, asks how designers think about and define “public” today; and how designers imagine buildings, landscapes, and urban places that aspire to be for the public.

04.23.09 Call for Entries: National Award for Smart Growth Achievement
The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) is accepting applications from
public-sector or private sector applicants that have used the principles of smart growth to create better places. This year, applications will be accepted in five categories: Built Projects, Policies and Regulations, Smart Growth and Green Building, Smart Growth Streets, and Overall Excellence in Smart Growth. The public sector winners will receive support for further implementing smart growth strategies in their communities. In addition, public sector winners will receive one complementary registration to the New Partners for Smart Growth Conference in 2010.