Do you have an outstanding colleague? Or are you a brilliant early career design professional? We want to recognise your potential but this year's entries have now closed
We are on the hunt for the movers and shakers of tomorrow. Thanks for all your help with that and some great entries. The competition is now closed, check back on ribaj.com for the shortlist on 2nd October and on 24th October for the winning cohort. Or look out for the competition launch in mid 2024.
RIBAJ, in association with Origin, is scouting for the built environment’s Rising Stars, those early career professionals making things happen.
Have you set up your practice with a splash? Have you danced your proposal into a great competition win? Have you sourced inspirational local materials? Have you tapped into the circular economy? Have you built up team confidence in contracts and fees? Have you made community consultation a pleasure? Or created a killer campaign?
The best early-career professionals have brought to their teams the agile thinking and resilience to push through rocky economic times and grasp new opportunities.
Whether your talents lie in design, management, clear sighted thinking or working with teams on site, in education or in forging your own collaboration network, we want to hear from you. Entry is free.
Deadline Wednesday 6 September 2023, 14.00 hrs
Winners will be profiled in the RIBA Journal and on ribaj.com and invited to an exclusive Class of 2023 round table.
COMPETITION CONDITIONS
1. Competition promoter
The competition is being run by the RIBA Journal.
2. Eligibility
To be eligible architecture graduates needed to have completed either RIBA Part II, or equivalent, within 10 years of Wednesday 6th September 2023. Other professions need to have completed their professional qualifications within 10 years of 6th September 2023.
No member or employee of the promoting body, the evaluation panel, or any partner, close associate or employee of them is eligible to compete or assist a competitor.
3. Competition format
The competition will follow the single-phase format.
A cohort of 8-12 Rising Stars will be selected. Details of shortlisted and longlisted entries will also be published.
4. Acceptance of competition regulations
By entering entrants agree to abide by the competition conditions and the decision of the evaluation panel as final.
Please note the details entered on the form will be used as the credits in all publication and promotional activity so please ensure this is reflected accurately.
5. Evaluation panel
The evaluation panel is expected to comprise of:
Lucy Clark, head of public space programme, Natural History Museum
Eva MacNamara, associate director, Expedition
Nick Hayhurst, founder, Hayhurst & Co
Berry Owoo, architectural designer, Be First London and Rising Star 2022
Eleanor Young, editor RIBA Journal (chair)
In the event of an evaluation panel member being unable to continue to act through illness or any other cause, the RIBA reserve the right to appoint an alternative panel member.
6. Competition timetable
The anticipated programme, which may be subject to variation, is as follows:
Competition launch |
Tuesday 30th May 2023 |
Submission deadline |
Wed 6th September 2023 by 14.00 hrs |
Evaluation of entries with panel and winners agreed |
Wed 20th September 2023 |
Shortlist announced |
Tuesday 2nd October 2023 |
Result announced in on ribaj.com, published in the RIBA Journal with email notification to entrants |
Wed 24th October 2023 |
7. Disqualification
Submissions shall be excluded from the competition:
- If received after the latest time stated under submission method;
- If, in the opinion of the Evaluation Panel, it does not fulfil the requirements of the competition brief;
- If any of the mandatory requirements of the competition brief and conditions are disregarded.
8. Submission requirements
Below are the elements to the submission:
- Written biography of entrant, 50 words maximum
- Personal statement from entrant, 400 words maximum
- Written referee statement maximum word count 100
- Two to five images and drawings of work referenced
- One portrait of entrant
- Answers to questions: maximum word count 100 each (for publication only)
9. Submission method
Each design submission should be uploaded before 14.00 hours on Wed 6th September 2023.
Please note that the total upload should not exceed 30MB.
Late entries will not be accepted and the digital entry system will not permit uploads after the deadline. You are strongly advised to familiarise yourself with the system and to allow adequate time for your submission material to successfully upload.
10. Evaluation criteria
Demonstration of:
- Agility, ability to adapt to changing circumstances
- Original thinking in problem solving through design or management or other means
- Leadership from above, below or alongside
- A collaborative approach
- Sheer graft
- Outcomes and impacts.
We welcome entries that focus on one particular achievement or initiative as well as those that detail a wider breadth of activities. Don’t forget to tell us how you personally contributed to the achievements you mention.
11. Notification of result / publication and publicity
The competition results will be published after all entrants have been notified.
Entrants should note that by entering the competition they are expected to honour the request for confidentiality to prevent information on individuals who have been longlisted, shortlisted or selected as winners being leaked to other press before any official announcement is made.
The RIBA reserves the right to publicise the competition, any materials submitted, and the result in any promotional activity, including on all social media channels, as it considers fit.
You and your collaborators also grant to the Royal Institute of British Architects (RIBA) permission to reproduce the material supplied in all formats, in all media and all platforms in perpetuity, in whole or in part – either separately, or together with other designs, with or without explanatory text - without payment.
Authors will credited and recognised in all associated media and publicity. This information will be taken from the file names of entered images so please ensure the details are accurate.
12. Enquiries
All enquiries relating to the competition should be directed to:
Members of the evaluation panel should not be contacted for information as this may lead to disqualification from the competition.
RIBA Rising Rising Stars is produced in association with Origin Doors and Windows