CEPT Essay Prize 2019-2020

The selection of the winners will be made by taking the following points into account:

• The selection will be made on the basis of the abstract and the essay submitted by the applicant. The jury will be looking for clarity, using meaningful descriptive words, taking into account the context, assumptions, biases, perspectives, etc.
• The writing should be accessible to a wider readership beyond the architecture and planning audiences.
• The directness of communication or arguments presented is encouraged.

Note:

• The 800-word abstracts submitted for the first stage will be reviewed by the panel of four experts.
• For the second stage, 45 entrants will be shortlisted. These candidates will need to submit a 3000-word long-form essay which will be reviewed by a panel of three judges.

• Themes for the essay contest-
  • What are the imaginations of Dwelling? Dwelling as aspirations, dreams, mythologies, mysteries, struggles, and more.
  • What are the challenges of Dwelling – in the ways we understand land politics, economic shifts, cultural slides, nation and nationality, governance and mobility?
  • What are the opportunities of new imaginations of the contemporary through Dwelling – by nature of innovations and reinterpretations, neighbourhoods recalibrated, and the will to self-assertion?
• Only individual submissions will be accepted.
• Any candidate can apply to the CEPT Essay Prize for a maximum of two cycles; however, those who have been awarded the first or second position in any cycle are no longer eligible to apply for a subsequent cycle.

Find technical writing guidelines here.