The Designing Resilience International Open Competition (DRIA) is a think-tank competition hosted by the National University of Singapore (NUS), aimed at building the resilience of cities, in view of the effects of climate change.

The 2017 DRIA International Open Competition encourages participants to propose innovative Water Solutions at the urban planning, urban design, architecture, building technology or the industrial design scales to tackle the challenge of 'Droughts & Water Scarcity' in cities, neighborhoods and communities. There are no restrictions in regards to country, site, neighborhood, program, or size. Projects can focus on any city in the world, on a specific urban location or can be a general concept or design without a specific site. Submitted proposals should be original and cannot have been awarded or published previously. The speculative proposals will engage with design and technology that connect the physical and the social aspects of a community to promote its resiliency in response to droughts and water scarcity as the effects of climate change.

Submissions due: 17th July 2017

For more information and registration, visit the official website here.