📋 Tender Overview
The Ministry of Transport, Mobility and Urban Agenda (Mitma) has published, according to today's Official State Gazette, a competition for projects with the intervention of a jury for the curatorship that allows the continuity of the digital strategy of La Casa de la Arquitectura.
The purpose of this project competition is the selection of the curatorial team responsible for the elaboration, development and implementation of the curatorial concept for the digital platform of La Casa de la Arquitectura promoted by Mitma, through the general secretariat of Urban Agenda, Housing and Architecture, through an original and creative proposal that is in tune with contemporary curatorial approaches.
To this end, a public competition is called that will allow, under the evaluation of a specialized jury, to choose the most appropriate proposal to increase the content and plan the continuity over time of the aforementioned digital platform, both from the point of view of the strengths of the curatorial concept and its contents, as well as the formal expression of the project.
This contract helps to promote the digital strategy of La Casa de la Arquitectura, seeking to make use of the great potential offered by current digital media, allowing knowledge of Spanish architecture and the consideration of the transcendence of its social, cultural, artistic and technical values to reach the greatest number of citizens. regardless of your location, whether in the national territory or outside our borders.
Likewise, at the end of October, the Ministry published another contract aimed at making La Casa de la Arquitectura a reality: the tender for the service of visitor service and cultural mediation of La Casa de la Arquitectura, whose deadline for submission ended on November 14 and whose amount is 50,000 euros without VAT.
Jury and content of the proposal
The jury for choosing the web curatorship will be made up of representatives of the General Secretariat of Urban Agenda, Housing and Architecture, the Arquia Foundation and the Higher Council of Architects' Associations of Spain; together with a group of renowned experts made up of a curator, an expert in digital communication, a creative director and an architect.
The proposal should be summarised in two panels and a dossier:
The first panel will clearly describe the concept and project of curating and the second will show its development and implementation in sufficient detail to allow a full understanding of the proposal.The dossier will include a report and a budget schedule.
The deadline is January 10, 2024 at 2:00 p.m.
A period of 15 days is established for the delivery of the curatorial project, counting from the day following the signing of the contract, with a duration of the service contract of twelve months, extendable for another twelve months.
Awards
The amount of this contract, excluding VAT, is 131,250 euros, which includes the payment of the planned prizes. There will be only one winner who will be awarded the First Prize of 15,000 euros. Likewise, a Second Prize of 5,000 euros, a Third Prize of 3,000 euros and two runners-up prizes of 1,000 euros each (amounts excluding VAT) will be awarded.
The contract for the elaboration, development and implementation of the curatorial concept for the website of the Casa de la Arquitectura will be awarded directly to the winner of the competition.
The House of Architecture
The Casa de la Arquitectura is an institution whose vocation is to become a reference in the dissemination of Architecture in Spain, for which the digital strategy is a fundamental tool to reach all citizens. In addition, it will have a main physical headquarters, which can be joined by other permanent or temporary headquarters anywhere in the national territory.
The main purpose of the House of Architecture is to disseminate the transformative potential of this discipline, understood as a multidisciplinary activity, the result of a collective and coordinated effort, as well as to raise awareness of its values in society as a whole as a tool for cultural diplomacy.
It is also the aim of this institution to promote and promote the principle of the quality of architecture, recognising its impact on the built environments of towns and cities and its ability to make them more sustainable and resilient, claiming that quality architecture thus results in the well-being and health of all people, without compromising the expectations of future generations.
It is also conceived as a tool for the promotion of research and the conservation of architecture as a cultural fact that reflects the circumstances of each society, addressing issues of identity with the values it represents, which have a direct impact on the individual and collective development of society.
As a contemporary museum, La Casa de la Arquitectura is established as a platform for meeting, exchange, communication and learning aimed at a transversal and intergenerational audience.
The House of Architecture was created with the aim of becoming, in the near future, a Museum belonging to the network of State Museums, in compliance with the mandate of article 7 of Law 9/2022, of 14 June, on the Quality of Architecture, containing, among its functions, the power to acquire, preserve, research, communicate and exhibit information, Documentation and useful content for the purposes of study, dissemination and contemplation, ensembles and collections of historical, artistic, technical and any other cultural value.
