Out Designing Terrorism

The United Kingdom’s war on terrorism has met the creative front with their latest design competition “Public spaces, safer places”: designing in counter terrorism. Created in collaboration with Home Office and NaCTSO (National Counter Terrorism Security Office), the RSA and the Royal Institute of British Architects (RIBA); the competition is open to students in architecture and design and aims to integrate security and counter-terrorism into the process of designing places visited and used by the public.

The Design Challenge:

Imagine that the national government and city authority now wish to re-develop the site of (an) attack. As the first stage in this process, they have organised a competition for architects and designers to respond with proposals for a new public space. The city is looking for a bold statement that demonstrates its resilience and optimism and the mayor of the city has stated “we want to see a phoenix rise from the ashes.

Check out the brief here.