get involved
Get involved in Shahneshin Foundation
The Shahneshin Foundation community includes everyone interested
in the creative exploration and artistic expression of new ideas. Strengthening
and extending the Future Thinking is one of our primary objectives, and we
do it by presenting work that evokes, inspired, impassioned dialogue. We
also collaborate with like-minded individuals, institutions, private partners
and public institutions and organisations, drawing on their respective talents
and capabilities to build cultural bridges that connect people to mind-broadening
experiences, new ways of seeing a better world is possible.
You can take part in Shahneshin Foundation in many ways around the world. It is not difficult. Just drop a line and tell what you can do, and/or how you want to partake. In the mean time, start from your house acting sustainably in using water, i.e. keep the water from washing vegetable to irrigate flower/plants in your garden, plan your daily-trip using less-time, minimising the consumption of your own body-energy, public energy (transportation, etc.), study the consequences of the GMO food in your spare time. Add to the list of how to do help to Build a Sustainable Future for yourself, and the generation to come.
If you would like further information, please contact the Administrative Officer at +41 (0)43 540 00 26 or email us.
Competitions
Every year the Shahneshin Foundation (SF) hosts a number of different competitions, including the Young Artists and Designers Forum YADF, Worldwide Designs, the grant for independent studies abroad, and the Shahneshin Foundation's newest program, In Process, highlighting projects currently in design or in the early stages of construction.
Youth Visions
The programmes organised by the SF's Educational Services offer
students of all levels stimulating and enriching activities designed to help
them gain an awareness of art, architecture and the urban environment. The
Shahneshin Foundation (SF) Youth Visions programme prepares children for
a creative and co-operative future so they can lead us into a safer and better
world. The SF works with public school faculty and students to integrate
design into school curricula and develops and implements scores of similar
outreach
programmes. The SF helps children design their dream playground, or middle
school students design their community, or the homes and interior design
ideas by with children or giving them opportunity to play the principal role
in determining what city could be, or their community. They solve problems
in mathematics, science, and technology as they create an urban environment.
Emerging Voices Forum
The Emerging Voices Forum is an annual competition and series of lectures and exhibitions organized by the Shahneshin Foundation (SF). The Forum is established to recognize specific works of high quality and to encourage the exchange of ideas among young people who might otherwise not have a forum.
A unique theme is developed each year, and young artists and designers are invited to submit work. Projects of all types, either theoretical or real, and executed in any medium, are welcome. The jury selects work for presentation in public forums, an online installation, and an exhibition at the Shahneshin Foundation each spring.
Shrinkage Award
For the detailed information see the SWA. Winners receive a cash prize. A poster of the winning entries is distributed internationally, and a catalogue of winning work shall be published each year by the Shahneshin Foundation and a co-host Publisher. The selected works will be exhibited in public places such as community centres, banks, museums, and institutions.
Exhibitions
Shahneshin Foundation (SF) exhibitions range from small shows investigating the development of a significant new works to major exhibitions that travel nationally and internationally.
2006 Emerging Voices
The Shahneshin Foundation's annual Emerging Voices lecture series is created to recognize and encourage artists and designers who are beginning to achieve prominence in the profession. The series focuses primarily on built work, at a variety of scales, and is structured to reflect the diversity of contemporary practice-geographically, stylistically, and ideologically.
