In the twenty-first century, along with the rapid development of creative cultural industry and global creative economy, the strong promotion of the progress of the design industry has already became the new driving force of the economy. 

进入21世纪，随着全球创意经济和文化创意产业的迅猛发展，大力推动设计产业的发展已经成为新的经济动力引擎。

The Competition of Design represents one of the most important subject in TDW: while it aims at supporting the potential of the young architects of the last generation, at the same time assist in the promotion of new ideas and the discovery of new talent.

作为天津国际设计周重要内容之一的设计竞赛，旨在激发肩负新时代使命的年轻设计师的设计潜能，培养创新能力的同时，发觉新的才能

WORKS

The theme of  Memories and Dreams can be examined from different perspectives, the participants can present projects regarding architectural design and industrial design (except for fashion design projects).

作品

期待从建筑设计、工业设计（服装设计除外）两个领域的参加者参赛，以 “记忆与梦想”为主题从不同的视角进行表现。

REQUIREMENTS FOR ENROLLMENT

Those who, on 12/01/2014, have not yet reached 40 years old (within, therefore, the fortieth year age) are invited to join the competition. There are no restrictions on nationality and on social class. Also students can participate; you can sign up as a group or as individual participant (if you sign up as a group, each member must not have yet reached the forty years ).

报名资格

截止2015年2月1日年龄未满40周岁者（含40周岁）均可报名。国籍不限，社会人士及在校学生均可参加，参赛者可以个人身份或团队报名。（以团队进行报名的，成员年龄需均小于40周岁）。

OFFICIAL LANGUAGES

Only English and Chinese (simplified form) languages are allowed.

官方语言

     报名参赛时，仅限使用“英语”和“汉语（简体・繁体）”。

TERMS OF THE WORKS IN COMPETITION

1. The works made of panels (the panels should be displayed horizontally, in order to include all the contents), cannot be composed by more than two panels, concretely it’s required: jpg size for document in digital format ; layout contents can includes themes, images, layout diagrams, figures and captions (800-1000 characters); the use of diagrams, freehand drawings or computer drawings is not limited because in this way the creativity of the designers and the potential of the work can clearly be expressed; the layout specifications for design works are 1200x900 mm, with a resolution of 150dpi.
2. If the finalists wants to provide the original image in order to exhibit and publish it, then it’s possible to use 300dpi resolution. In the design drawings must be specified, as follows, the role of each participant, the name (in English or pinyin) or symbols and logo connected to the participants

参赛作品条件

1．作品设计成展板形式(展板限定为横向，包括所有内容)， 最多不超过2张展板，具体展板要求：  作品为jpg格式的电子文 件; 版面内容包含主题、 效果图、必要的结构图、基本外观尺寸图及说明文字（800-1000字符）等；其中效果图表现手法不限，手绘、计算机等任何方式，能清楚表现设计者的创意 和设计即可；设计作品版面规格为1200x900mm，分辨率为150dpi精度。作品如果入围必须提供300dpi的原始图片，以供将来展示及出版用 途。
2 .设计图纸不得出现以下内容：参赛者所在单位、姓名（包括英文或拼音缩写）或与参赛者身份有关的任何图标、图形等。

RIGHTS AND DUTIES

1. This competition is non-profit .
2. The organizing committee has the copyright on divulgation, exhibition, publication and on reproduction of works. The works used by the organizing committee will be signed by the author.
3. The Committee is not required to return to any competitor participant materials submitted for the competition; it’s not possible to request any kind of reimbursement to the sponsors and to organizers of competition.
4. The work must be original, there cannot exist similar works, it’s not possible violate the copyright of third parties or any other intellectual property right; if we find that the works that you declare do not meet the terms for participation in the competition, the relevant authority reserves the right to disqualify the participant, in any time of competition, and pick up awards already gained; all the expenses will be paid by the participant in question.
5. If other participants will raise a question on intellectual property rights, the legal responsibility will be assumed by the participants themselves.
6. For more directive on these rules please contact the organizing committee.

        权利和义务

 1、本次大赛不收取任何费用。
2、参赛作品的传播、展览、刊登、出版等的版权归组委会所有。组委会在使用参赛作品时，对其作者予以署名。
3、所有参赛者不得要求组委会退回所提交的参评资料，不向大赛主办单位、承办单位及组委会提出任何形式的索偿要求；
4、参赛作品必须原创，不得有与同类作品相似或相近，不得有侵犯任何第三方的著作权或其他任何知识产权或专有权利的情况,如发现参赛者申报作品有不符 合参赛条件情形，组委会有权在大赛任一阶段取消其参赛资格，收回其所获之奖项，由此造成举办方损失的，概由参赛者承担；
5、如其他方对参赛产品提出知识产权方面的争议，则由参赛者自行处理并承担一切法律责任；
6、本规则的解释权归主办单位。