Emerge, an organisation founded by Zimbabwean architect and Rotarian Ruvimbo Moyo-Majapa, offers competitions to African design students. These competitions promote innovative concepts that re-think the current rural and urban conditions, offering new proposals that are a direct reflection of the continent’s transformative efforts and mobilizing young designers to make vital contributions to their communities and countries.
The Emerge Competition welcomes new sponsors. Please contact info@emergecompetition.com for more information.
COMPETITION GOALS AND VALUES
- Producing innovative and provocative architectural solutions through critical analysis of the context and challenging the current norm
- Aid students in building a strong portfolio
- Offering socially relevant, economically and environmentally sustainable ideas and solutions to the general public
- Influencing architecture students in Africa to foster long-term ideals of developing the continent
- Offer a scholarship base to support and encourage students studying architecture and the related fields