Nka Foundation
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Nka is an Igbo (African) word for artistry, its literary translation is “…of art”. It is also an Akan word that implies “may be” but in Akan, nká means “ancient”. We reckon the arts are the most ancient of human activities. Along these lines, Nka Foundation has a focus on human capital development through use of the arts, broadly defined to include visual arts, literary arts, performing arts, design, new media/film production, arts history, arts criticism, arts education, arts administration and curatorship, and emerging others.Jury
Adrià CLAPéS I NICOLAU
Adrian WELCH
Podjamas CHAISURAPHAWAT
Guido CIMANDOMO
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Architecture and Urban planning
2018 Design-Build Challenge in Gambia:
Nka Foundation is issuing a challenge to designers, architects and builders to use their creativity to come up with modern mud types for rural Gambia. This is a live project! We will select 10 project teams to realize their projects between January 2018 to December 2019.
Nka will partner with each team to organize an international building workshop to, onsite, design and build a unit of a vocational skills center.
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Architecture and Urban planning
5th Earth Architecture Competition :
Nka Foundation announces a call for entries for its 5th Earth Architecture Competition: Designing a Rural Arts Center for Senegal, an international architecture competition open to professionals and students of architecture, design, urban planning and others from around the world. Your challenge is to design a unit of a rural arts school for construction in a village in the Casamance region of Senegal.
$40 - $60 to register
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$2 100 + Realisation + Travel
Architecture and Urban planning, Architecture and Urban planning, Architecture and Urban planning, Art
2017 Land art competition:
Nka Foundation invites submissions from creative practitioners and institutions dedicated to community placemaking to participate in its 2017 Land Art Competition. The competition is open to landscape architects, artists, curators, designers, architects, urban planners, engineers, university students and others from around the world to submit their ideas for large-scale and site-specific public art installations based on site in rural Ghana.
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$2 198 + Other
Architecture and Urban planning
3rd earth architecture competition: designing for the arts:
The challenge is to design a house type of about 2400 sq feet that sleeps 8 to 10 persons to be built on a plot size of 80 x 100 feet. Total costs of constructing the design entry must not exceed $7,000 (USD) for materials and labor; land value is excluded from this price point. You should design the unit for construction by maximum use of earth and local labor in the Ashanti Region of Ghana.
$60 - $80 to register
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$3 000 + Other
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