ELLE THOMPSON
COMPETITIONS
Alongside my studies and practice experience, I look to pursue competitions and challenges which offer a creative release, alone or with peers. Below are some of the selected entries to these creative opportunities.
Joint Project with Anu D'costa / RIBA / May 2020 / Commended Entry
Drawing Challenge / Archisource / June 2020
RIBA RETHINK 2025
Joint Project with Anu D'costa
RIBA Competition
May 2020
Commended Entry
An international ideas competition launched by the Royal Institute of British Architects (RIBA) which invited architects, students and designers to submit positive responses that reconsider a number of aspects of life, all which could be transform the way we live by the year 2025 following the lessons of the global pandemic.
Our entry - The Post Pandemic Exchange - explored the humanisation of the city, high-street and suburbs as the pandemic provokes a cultural exchange in our priorities and needs in the respective environments. The full entry can be viewed below along with the press coverage.
FEATURES
RIBA Journal August 2020 / Post Pandemic Exchange: Garden streets revitalise hollowed out cities and suburbia is enchanting / Eleanor Young
RIBA Journal (Online) July 2020 / Bold and thoughtful Rethink 2025 shortlist opens real possibilities / Eleanor Young
ARCHISOURCE: HOMETOWN ISOMETRIC
Drawing Challenge
Archisource
June 2020
A collective drawing challenge taking place during the lockdown period of 2020. The challenge aimed to create a giant tessellated isometric drawing from creatives around the world to provide a collaborative insight into the staying-home experience. My drawing - A drawing of my lockdown or a drawing of my brain ? -attempted to make the mundane routine I applied to my lockdown graphically interesting so that it could act as a memento of the strange time. The full collective drawing can be found at: https://archisource.org/hometown-live
