19 février

• (en anglais) JOB OFFERS - PROGRAMME SPECIALIST - Section of the Diversity of Cultural Expressions, Division of Cultural Expressions and Creative Industries, Culture Sector, UNESCO. Deadline: 19 April 2010
  Under the authority of the Director of the Division of Cultural Expressions and Creative Industries and the direct supervision of the Chef of the Section of the Diversity of Cultural Expressions, the incumbent will be responsible for executing the operational programme of activities required to implement the Convention on the Protection and Promotion of the Diversity of Cultural Expressions (2005). He/she requires a comprehensive knowledge of the Convention as well as of cultural policy and other issues addressed therein. He/she will act as a focal point for the activities of the main Convention organs including their statutory meetings.
  Plus information en anglais : http://recrutweb.unesco.org/pdf/CLT936.PDF

18 février

• (en anglais) Samuel Kress Foundation - Grant Programs
  Through its Grant Programs, the Kress Foundation supports scholarly projects that promote the appreciation, interpretation, preservation, study and teaching of European art from antiquity to the early 19th century. These areas are also supported through our Fellowships. These competitive grants are awarded to institutions only.
  • History of Art
    This program area supports scholarly projects that will enhance the appreciation and understanding of European art and architecture.
  • Conservation
    The Conservation program supports the professional practice of art conservation.
  • Digital Resources
    This program supports the creation of important online resources in art history, including both textual and visual resources. Key interests include digitization of core art history photographic archives and primary textual sources. The program further supports efforts to integrate new technologies into the practice of art history, including classroom applications and online publishing.
  • Responsive Grants
    This program supports projects that advance the mission of the Foundation but fall outside our three main programmatic areas.

  Plus information en anglais : http://www.kressfoundation.org/grants/default.aspx?id=56

  (en anglais) AWARDS - Aga Khan Award for Architecture Announces Master Jury for 2010
  The members of the Master Jury of the Aga Khan Award for Architecture were announced today. The Jury, which selects the recipients of the Award, will convene in January to review the 401 nominated projects and select approximately 25 finalists, which will then be subject to on-site reviews by independent experts. The Jury will meet for a second time in June to select the Award recipients from the group of finalists. Recipients will be announced at a ceremony in autumn 2010. The nine members of the Master Jury for the 2010 Award cycle are:
  • Prof. Souleymane Bachir Diagne
    Professor, Department of Philosophy, Columbia University, USA
  • Mr. Omar Abdulaziz Hallaj
    Architect; Chief Executive Officer, Syria Trust for Development
  • Professor Salah Hassan
    Art historian and curator; director of Africana Studies and Research Center, Cornell University, USA
  • Ms. Faryar Javaherian
    Architect and curator; co-founder of Gamma Consultants, Iran
  • Mr. Anish Kapoor
    Artist, UK
  • Professor Kongjian Yu
    Landscape architect and urbanist; founder and dean of Graduate School of Landscape Architecture, Peking University, China
  • Mr. Jean Nouvel
    Architect; founding partner, Ateliers Jean Nouvel, France
  • Ms. Alice Rawsthorn
    Design critic, International Herald Tribune, UK
  • Mr. Basem Al Shihabi
    Architect; Managing Partner, Omrania & Associates, Saudi Arabia

  Plus information en anglais : http://www.cdnarchitect.com/issues/ISArticle.asp?aid=1000354854

17 février

• (en italien) Concorso di idee per la riqualificazione urbana della piazza di Paceco. Sicilia (Italia) Deadline: 19 March 2010
  Il comune di Paceco, in provincia di Trapani, ha lanciato un concorso di idee, finalizzato ad una raccolta di proposte progettuali per la riqualificazione urbana della piazza Vittorio Emanuele. Il concorso rientra all‘interno di una definizione generale di sviluppo urbanistico del centro di Paceco allo scopo di valorizzare l‘aspetto della ricerca di nuovi rapporti ed identità urbane, ad incentivo della prefigurazione e della verifica degli indirizzi culturali, storici e sociali emergenti dall‘area di intervento nel quadro complessivo esistente e previsto dalla pianificazione urbana.
  L‘obiettivo generale del progetto consiste nella valorizzazione della centralità e del valore di un luogo dalla forte valenza simbolica, per la centralità, la qualità e l‘importanza delle funzioni presenti (Sede Municipale, Chiesa Santa Caterina S.M.).
  Plus information : http://www.tafter.it/2010/02/01/19-03-10-concorso-di-idee-per-la-riqualificazione-urbana-della-piazza-di-paceco/

• (en italien) Concorso di idee “Ecohousing Art – Progetti per abitare gli spazi” Monza (Italia) 7 novembre 2009 - 31 luglio 2010. Il termine per l’iscrizione è fissato al 31 marzo 2010
  House Company promuove un Concorso di Ideecostruttive che richiami le energie mentali, le suggestioni dell’anima, le competenze specifiche di artisti o aspiranti tali e di futuri o attuali professionisti in Architettura, Ingegneria e Design, perché investano creatività e talento per la realizzazione di opere e progetti che irrompano nella realtà per ricreare l’equilibrio dell’Ecosistema Uomo-Casa-Ambiente.
  Protagonisti del Concorso di Ideecostruttive sono Junior e Senior Artisti, Designer, Architetti Ingegneri. Il concorso a carattere nazionale è suddiviso in 3 Sezioni: Arte, Design, Architettura Ingegneria. Gli Artisti sono chiamati a progettare realizzare – attraverso qualsiasi tecnica – opere che esprimano, celebrino, rendano omaggio, sublimino, estetizzino l’indissolubilità dei legami Uomo-Casa-Ambiente.
  Plus information : http://www.tafter.it/2009/09/16/31-03-10-concorso-di-idee-ecohousing-art-progetti-per-abitare-gli-spazi/

• (en italien) Concorso video del MiBAC “La cultura in un video” 5 aprile 2010 (Italia)
  Il Ministero per i beni e le attività culturali (MiBAC), nell’ambito della campagna promozionale “Scopri CulturaItalia” (http://www.culturaitalia.it), con il supporto dell’Osservatorio tecnologico per i beni e le attività culturali, organizza un concorso video a premi sul tema “La cultura in un video”. Il tema si articola in tre possibili declinazioni, fra cui i concorrenti potranno scegliere quella preferita:
  • Dai vita a un monumento.
    Costruisci un video intorno ad un monumento famoso per provare a dargli un’anima: sono ammesse riproduzioni plastiche e virtuali del monumento.
  • Racconta un evento culturale.
    Proponi un resoconto breve e vivace di un evento culturale a cui hai partecipato, utilizzando ironia e vivacità.
  • Riscrivi il capolavoro.
    Ricostruisci in forma plastica un’opera famosa, proponendo una rilettura legata all’attualità.

  Plus information : http://www.tafter.it/2009/12/15/28-02-10-concorso-video-del-mibac-la-cultura-in-un-video/

• (en italien) Concorso per la realizzazione del logo identificativo del Distretto Culturale dell’Habitat Rupestre. Potenza (Italia) Deadline: 6 March 2010
  La Fondazione Zétema indice un concorso di idee per la realizzazione del logo identificativo del Distretto Culturale dell’Habitat Rupestre. Esso ne costituirà il simbolo e sarà utilizzato nell’ambito di ogni attività istituzionale e promozionale, allo scopo di diffondere la conoscenza di tale territorio. Il logo dovrà garantire la riconoscibilità, la visibilità e l’unicità del Distretto Culturale dell’Habitat Rupestre di Basilicata, esaltandone i principi fondanti e le peculiarità.
  La partecipazione al concorso è gratuita e potrà essere individuale o di gruppo; potranno partecipare al concorso persone fisiche e/o giuridiche, artisti, creativi, esperti di marketing, comunicazione, design, ecc. aventi la residenza in un Paese dell’Unione Europea. Potranno, altresì, partecipare studi e agenzie che operano nel campo della promozione, comunicazione, grafica e design, classi e/o raggruppamenti di allievi di istituti d’arte e/o affini purché abbiano sede sul territorio europeo.
  Ciascun concorrente singolo o gruppo potrà partecipare una sola volta a titolo individuale, pena l’esclusione dal concorso. Ogni partecipante potrà presentare una sola proposta.
  Plus information : http://www.tafter.it/2010/02/12/06-03-10-concorso-per-la-realizzazione-del-logo-identificativo-del-distretto-culturale-dell%E2%80%99habitat-rupestre/

• (en anglais) AWARDS - I.M. Pei awarded with the RIBA Royal Gold Medal 2010
  The RIBA Royal Gold Medal for 2010 goes to an architect whose renown has been built over several decades of consistently producing a very particular kind of structure — often aspired to, rarely achieved. The characteristic buildings of I.M. Pei stand serene with the elemental dignity of high modernism, while at the same time expressing both the dynamism of muscular structural sculpture and some deep subtle touches of sensitivity to context. Given by the Royal Institute of British Architects (RIBA) in recognition of an entire body of work, the Royal Gold Medal is approved personally by the sitting British monarch and is given to a person or group who has had a significant influence “either directly or indirectly on the advancement of architecture.” In announcing the 2010 award for Pei, RIBA President Ruth Reed said, “The Royal Gold Medal has been called, often erroneously, a lifetime achievement award. Seldom has it been so true as it is in the case of I.M. Pei."
  Plus information en anglais : http://www.archdaily.com/49931/i-m-pei-awarded-with-the-riba-royal-gold-medal-2010/

15 février

• (en anglais) COMPEPTITIONS - 2010 Chicago Prize Competition: MINE THE GAP. Chicago (USA) Deadline: 3 May 2010
  The Chicago Architectural Club is pleased to announce the 2010 Chicago Prize Competition: MINE THE GAP, a single-stage international design ideas competition dedicated to examining one of the most visible scars left after the collapse of the real estate market in Chicago: the massive hole along the Lake Michigan shore that was to have been—and may yet be—the foundation for a singular 150-story condominium tower designed by an internationally-renowned Spanish architect, a tower which was to have become a new icon for the city and region. What to do with the gap? Whether or not the project is resuscitated, what else can we do with this strategic and highly-charged site? Once the motor of real-estate speculation has stalled, what can we use to propel ourselves, and the discipline, forward?
  Plus information en anglais : http://www.archdaily.com/49749/2010-chicago-prize-competition-mine-the-gap/

• (en anglais) COMPEPTITIONS - TownShift: Suburb into City Competition Shortlist
  The international ideas competition “TownShift: Suburb into City” recently announced the list of finalists. The competition seeks innovative ideas for five established town centers of Surrey, Canada: Guildford, Fleetwood, Cloverdale, Newton and Semiahmoo. The aim of the competition is to “Shift” thinking and opportunities for each of these “Town” hubs towards more intense, public-minded and productive urban futures.
  Plus information en anglais : http://www.archdaily.com/49728/townshift-suburb-into-city-competition-shortlist/

12 février

• (en anglais) FELLOWSHIPS - The Clothworkers' Foundation, Royaume-Uni Bourses. Deadline for Applications: 21 May 2010
  We will award one Fellowship a year to enable an experienced conservator (Senior Fellow) to be seconded within their organisation to a specialist research and/or conservation project. The post of the experienced conservator will be back-filled by a junior conservator (Junior Fellow) at the start of their career. The aim of the scheme is to:
  • Enable an experienced conservator to undertake research for a period of up to two years to develop their knowledge for the benefit of the wider profession.
  • Provide an opportunity for a recently qualified conservator to develop their skills and to gain experience through a structured internship.

  Our grant will be for up to £40,000 a year for a maximum of two years. It will pay for the salary and on-costs of the Junior Fellow, as well as for the cost of analytical tests, writing up and publicising results (associated with the work of the Senior Fellow). The Senior Fellow will continue to be paid by their employer. The grant may not be used to contribute to the overhead costs (or ‘budget relief’) of the nominating institution. The Senior Fellow must commit to return to their original role for at least one year on completion of the Fellowship.
  Plus information en anglais : http://www.clothworkers.co.uk/Grant-Making/Conservation-Programme.aspx

• (en anglais) FELLOWSHIPS - Harold White Fellowships now open (Australia) Applications close on 30 April 2010
  Applications for the 2011 Harold White Fellowships at the National Library of Australia are now open. Each year several Harold White Fellowships are awarded to allow established scholars and writers to undertake research at the National Library for periods of between three and six months. The Fellowships provide a return economy fare to Canberra, a living allowance, a fully equipped office and special access to Library collections and services. Honorary Fellowships are also awarded to scholars and writers who do not require financial assistance but would benefit from other privileges associated with the Fellowship. Research projects supported by Harold White Fellowships can be in any discipline or area in which the Library has strong collections. Past Harold White Fellows have undertaken research in fields including Asian studies, history of science, biography, media history, Australian history, musicology, religious history, anthropology, children’s literature, art history, politics, Indigenous history, Australian literature, Pacific studies, 18th century studies, geography, international relations and folklore. Past Fellows have included leading Australian writers Frank Moorhouse, Sara Dowse and David Foster. Fellowships have been awarded to researchers working across Australia, in the United States, Canada, the United Kingdom, New Zealand, Hong Kong, China, Germany and South Africa.
  Plus information en anglais : http://www.nla.gov.au/news/story.php?id=289

11 février

• BOURSES - Le Fonds Roberto Cimetta relance ses appels à soutien à la mobilité culturelle
  Ce Fonds est une association internationale pour les échanges artistiques et la mobilité des professionnels au sein de l’espace méditerranéen dans le domaine des arts vivants. Les artistes ou opérateurs venant de ou partant vers les villes et pays suivants sont concernés:
  • Algérie (Alger)
  • Arménie (Gumri)
  • Espagne (Région de Barcelone)
  • Israël (Haïfa)
  • Italie (Province de Gênes)
  • Maroc (Marrakech)
  • Palestine (Bethléem)
  • Tunisie (Tunis)

  N’hésitez pas à visiter le site régulièrement car ces priorités évolueront au cours de l’année.
  Plus information : http://www.adcei.org/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=447

9 février

• OFFRES D'EMPLOI - ICHARM recrute quatre experts. Date limite : 22 février 2010
  L'institut de recherche des travaux publics (PWRI) du Japon recrute actuellement un chercheur pour une durée déterminée et trois spécialistes de la recherche qui travailleront pour le Centre international sur les risques liés à l'eau et à leur gestion (ICHARM) sous l'égide de l'UNESCO. Pour plus de détails, lisez les informations sur les recrutements sur les sites Internet ci-dessous. La date limite d'inscription est le 22 février 2010 pour les deux types de poste.
  • Chercheur pour une durée déterminée: http://www.pwri.go.jp/eng/news/2010/0122/ninki_e.html
  • Spécialiste de recherche : http://www.icharm.pwri.go.jp/news/news_e/pdf/
    icharm_recruitment_information_20100122.pdf

  Plus information : http://www.unesco.org/water/news/newsletter/226_fr.shtml#vac_1

• (en anglais) FELLOWSHIPS - Call for Applications - Doctoral Scholarships at The International Graduate School of Heritage Studies at Cottbus University (Germany) Deadline: 15 March 2010
  The Brandenburg University of Technology Cottbus offers an interdisciplinary PhD programme in Heritage Studies that is aimed at national as well as international prospective students. The programme is a consequent further development of the highly successful Master’s degree in World Heritage Studies, implemented in 1999. This programme aims to develop, both qualitatively and quantitatively, international and interdisciplinary research on the protection and use of the heritage of mankind in all its representations. The graduate school collaborates closely with the network of UNESCO Chairs working on the issues of heritage.
  Plus information en anglais : http://www.tu-cottbus.de/btu/de/gradschool/heritage-studies.html

8 février

• BOURSES - Convocation de subventions pour des missions d'assistance technique en matière de culture et le développement. Date limite : 26 mars 2010
  Le délai de présentation des initiatives parmi lesquelles l'Organisation des États américains (OEA) sélectionnera les propositions qui seront financées en partie par le Fonds de Coopération pour les Missions d'assistance technique est désormais ouvert. Le Fonds vise à promouvoir la coopération bilatérale et multilatérale entre les ministères de la Culture et / ou d'autres institutions souhaitant encourager des stratégies fondées sur l'art et la culture afin de générer un développement économique, l'inclusion sociale et le renforcement des valeurs démocratiques.
  Plus information : http://portal.oas.org/Portal/Topic/SEDI/EducaciónyCultura/Cultura/tabid/250/language/es-CO/Default.aspx

• (en anglais) FELLOWSHIPS - Convocation de bourses, aides et subventions en gestion culturelle
  Le 23 janvier 2010, la convocation de bourses dénommées «Culturex » de formation pratique en gestion culturelle destinées aux jeunes espagnols à l'étranger, dans les institutions culturelles, les ambassades et les consulats espagnols, pour l'année 2010 a été publiée dans le Bulletin officiel de l’Etat, ordre CUL/59/2010 du 4 Janvier. La date limite de soumission des candidatures, pour les 23 bourses proposées, a été fixée au 8 février 2010. Les bases de la convocations ainsi que de plus amples renseignements sont disponibles sur le Centre d'information des citoyens.
  Plus information en anglais : http://www.mcu.es/becas/2010BecasCulturex.html

• CONCOURS - Concours européen d'architecture et de design en eco et agro-materiaux - You have ADREAM
  La Région Picardie et l’Etat Libre de Thuringe, régions productrices et transformatrices de matériaux renouvelables, organisent un concours européen à l’occasion de l’anniversaire des 15 ans de leur coopération bilatérale. Etudiants ou professionnels, vous êtes invités à soumettre des projets créatifs et innovants d’architecture et de design en éco et agro-matériaux. Les meilleurs projets seront récompensés par des prix financiers et des bourses au prototypage et permettront aux lauréats de nouer des contacts scientifiques et économiques. Pour participer, il est nécessaire de soumettre un projet réaliste réalisé avec des éco et agro-matériaux dans le champ de l'architecture (construction, ingénierie, intérieur, aménagement urbain, aménagement paysagiste, expositions temporaires ou stand) ou design (industriels, produit, ingéniérie, transport, intérieur, objets, mode, exposition et emballages). Les projets soumis doivent inclure les apsects techniques, culturels et sociaux du développement durable: cycle de vie étendus, valeur d'usage, confort, esthétique. La date limite de soumission pour la phase I est le 18 avril 2010.
  Plus information : http://adream-thueringen.picardie.fr/

• PRIX - Evénements culturels du Conseil de l’Europe. Date limite : 20 juin 2010
  Le label ''Evénement culturel du Conseil de l’Europe” (CECEL) identifie des projets culturels et artistiques exceptionnels et novateurs, qui véhiculent des messages sur la mission et les valeurs du Conseil de l’Europe et illustrent les problématiques clés de la société européenne. Ce label sera décerné chaque année à un petit nombre de projets. Le Conseil de l’Europe sélectionnera les initiatives pouvant utiliser le label CECEL en fonction de critères tels que la valeur artistique, l’adéquation avec les préoccupations des sociétés européennes, l’approche novatrice, la diversité des audiences et des moyens d'expression, le cadre géographique, et ainsi de suite. Les projets intéressés pour porter ce label peuvent présenter leurs propositions au Conseil de l’Europe jusqu'au 20 Juin 2010.
  Plus information : http://www.coe.int/t/dg4/cultureheritage/culture/events/default_FR.asp?