To begin the process you will need to reg­is­ter and login and fill the appli­ca­tion form electronically.

There are three com­po­nents to the application:

1. Con­tact infor­ma­tion and a list of your col­lab­o­ra­tors
2. A series of essay ques­tions ask­ing you to explain your pro­posal
3. Pro­posal Visualizations, Ancillary Documentation

Part 1: Con­tact infor­ma­tion (required)

Please fill in every­thing and be very care­ful as this is the only part of your appli­ca­tion that includes any iden­ti­fy­ing information.

• first name
• last name
• firm/company/school
• street address
• city
• state
• postal code
• coun­try
• tele­phone
• e-mail
• URL
• names of collaborators
• companies/firms of collaborators
• tele­phone num­bers of collaborators
• e-mail addresses of collaborators

Part 2: Your Pro­posal (required)
You will be asked the fol­low­ing ques­tions. It is highly rec­om­mend that you proof­read and spell check your responses. Remem­ber that your pro­pos­als should be intended for a cer­tain place or a spe­cific group of peo­ple within the First World and should pro­vide solu­tions to one spe­cific prob­lem within the areas we propose.

What is the title of your pro­posal?
How is your project called.
50 words or less

How would you describe your pro­posal ?
We ask you this ques­tion to get an idea of what your project actu­ally is. What is it for? What does it do? What is it made out of? Etc. Keep answers short and sim­ple.
50 words or less

What does it fix and why? (what spe­cific prob­lem you are address­ing)
This is your oppor­tu­nity to tell us specif­i­cally how your project fits in to the com­pe­ti­tion.
100 words or less

What makes it impor­tant?
This is where you tell us why your idea is impor­tant, orig­i­nal and nec­es­sary.
500 words or less

How do the pho­tos or ren­der­ings illus­trate the con­cept?
You will be asked in the next sec­tion to include images to bol­ster your sub­mis­sion. If you have an image of the thing you’re fix­ing, please include as a “before” pic­ture. This ques­tion is a chance for you to explain why the images are impor­tant and how they relate to your project. You will have the addi­tional oppor­tu­nity to pro­vide cap­tions for your images in the next sec­tion.
500 words or less

Part 3: Pro­posal Visu­al­iza­tion (required)
Images are an impor­tant part of your sub­mis­sion. It is highly rec­om­mended that you include a few images but you are not required to sub­mit more than one. These may be pho­tographs, ren­der­ings, graphs, etc. You may sub­mit up to 10 images in JPEG, PNG or GIF for­mat. They will be judged on-screen, so it is impor­tant that they are sized appro­pri­ately for on-screen view­ing. Please do not include images that are larger than 1000 pix­els wide or 1000 pix­els high. These are the max­i­mum dimen­sions; it is OK for your images to be smaller. Please do not resize your images to be larger as this degrades the qual­ity of the image, a small image is bet­ter than a fuzzy one. The dpi (dots per inch) should be set at 72dpi. If your project is selected for pub­li­ca­tion you will be required to pro­vide high res­o­lu­tion publication-quality images and image cred­its at that time. We rec­om­mend that for each image you include a cap­tion up to 50 words long.

Audio/Video
Audio and/or video files may be sub­mit­ted as a MOV, MP3, MPG, or MP4 file. For video files, the phys­i­cal dimen­sions of each file should be no larger than 320 pix­els wide by 240 pix­els high.

Ancil­lary Doc­u­men­ta­tion (optional)
You have the chance to include any sup­ple­men­tal infor­ma­tion that is not cov­ered in the pre­vi­ous sec­tions. You might want to include the pub­li­ca­tion his­tory of your project, or exam­ples of past work. It is very impor­tant that mate­ri­als are clearly marked so judges under­stand what they are look­ing at.

Sub­mis­sion
Before you sub­mit your appli­ca­tion make sure you check the box ver­i­fy­ing that you have read and agree to the rules of the com­pe­ti­tion. Finally you need to e-mail us your com­plete appli­ca­tion. You will receive a con­fir­ma­tion num­ber via email.

Thank you for enter­ing the Design for the First World Competition.

Check­list:

____ I have read the appli­ca­tion instructions.

____ I have read the FAQ page.

____ I have read my typed answers to the essay ques­tions and proof­read and spell-checked them for accuracy.

____ I have com­piled JPEG, PNG, or GIF images to illus­trate my pro­posal that are no larger than 1000 pix­els wide by 1000 pix­els high.

____ I have writ­ten cap­tions for my images.

____ I have com­piled PDFs of sup­port­ing documents.

____ I have read the offi­cial rules of the com­pe­ti­tion and agree to the terms and conditions.

____ I agree to sign a hard copy of this appli­ca­tion if cho­sen as a win­ner or finalist.

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