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Urban Design Contest

We take great pleasure in announcing the Katha-EU Urban Design Award , an India country-level Search for excellence from amongst students of design and architecture in the following seven cities: Ahmedabad . Bangalore . Chennai . Delhi . Hyderabad . Mumbai . Kolkata.

The submission forms and guidelines are enclosed. The last date for submission of forms along with other required documents is  15 th November 2005.

This Urban Design Award is organised by Katha, one of India's leading edge nonprofit organisations working in the literacy to literature continuum, in association with the European Union and the India Habitat Centre. It is open to a maximum of three student teams from your institution/college.

There are exciting prizes worth a total of Rs 1,00,000 to be won. This includes One grand prize . Two II prizes . And notable mentions .

Seven selected teams will be invited to participate in the Katha Asia International Festival , to be held at the India Habitat Centre, New Delhi l 6-11 January 2006. We expect about 100 community and literary activists, academics and scholars from 16 Asian countries including India, as also from UK and USA. Five full days of intense dialogues and discussions as well as master classes and workshops are on the cards. The KathaAsia theme is: CITY STORIES l Writing the City . Transforming the City. The gala Awards Ceremony is scheduled at the Utsav.   Each participating team will be given generous space to showcase their innovative design.

May we request you to take part in this first-of-its-kind search for excellence in India? Could we also request you to please support  this venture by circulating the information to other like-minded organisations in your city or cities listed above

We look forward to your participation in the Katha Urban Design Contest , the search for creativity and excellence amongst future urban decision makers. We hope to see your students in Delhi at Katha Utsav time!

Geeta Dharmarajan

Executive Director

Katha