Urban Design Competitions in Asia and its Impact from Students Perspective

Abstract

This paper looked at three international urban design competitions for students in Asia by viewing the structure, strategy, and impacts of the selected case studies from Australia, the European Union, Designing Resilience of Asia (DRIA) and UNHabitat Initiatives. The researcher aims to find apparent differences in the organization's use of these types of competitions accordingly, ask the students' feedback through interviews and a survey in terms of how to improve the modality of which and turn it into actions or implementations. The outcome may indicate that some processes for programming, assessing, and organizing these kinds of competitions affect the perception and motivation of the students to advance an ‘idea-to-implementation’ that needs guidance and support from various stakeholders. Also, looking into the organizational factors that significantly affect, which includes sponsorship and conclusion, programming time, jury composition, and implementation resources.