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Competition: Dezeen has teamed up with publishers Taschen to give readers the chance to win one of five copies of a new Zaha Hadid monograph (+ slideshow).

Hadid. Complete Works 1979–2013 is a comprehensive catalogue of Zaha Hadid’s architecture and design projects spanning four decades.

The book contains early projects including the Vitra Fire Station as well as more recently completed buildings such as the Eli & Edythe Broad Art Museum in Michigan and the Serpentine Sackler Gallery extension in London.

Future projects like the new National Stadium of Japan, set to host the Tokyo 2020 Olympics Games, also feature.

Compiled by author Philip Jodidio, the hardback volume is available from the Taschen website.

To enter this competition email your name, age, gender, occupation, and delivery address and telephone number to competitions@dezeen.com with “Hadid. Complete Works” in the subject line. We won’t pass your information on to anyone else; we just want to know a little about our readers. Read our privacy policy here.

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Competition closes 29 November 2013. Five winners will be selected at random and notified by email. Winners’ names will be published in a future edition of our Dezeen Mail newsletter and at the top of this page. Dezeen competitions are international and entries are accepted from readers in any country.

Here’s some more information from the publishers:

Zaha Hadid is a wildly controversial architect whose work remained largely unbuilt for years, despite awards and critical acclaim. Yet in the past decade, Hadid has risen to fame and completed numerous structures like the Rosenthal Center for Contemporary Art in Cincinnati, the Glasgow Riverside Museum, and the Eli & Edythe Broad Art Museum in Michigan. With her audacious, futuristic designs, Hadid now ranks among the elite of world architecture.

Born in Baghdad and educated in London, where her practice is based, Hadid has designed radical architecture for over 30 years. This massive TASCHEN monograph, now available in a specially updated and more accessible edition, covers her complete works to date.

The New National Stadium of Japan—venue of the Tokyo 2020 Olympic Games, and the Serpentine Sackler Gallery in London are both published for the first time. This volume shows the evolution of Hadid’s career—comprising buildings and furniture and interior designs—with in-depth texts, spectacular photos, and her own drawings.

Following the original large monograph, this book is now available in a more accessible trade edition.

The author: Philip Jodidio (born 1954) studied art history and economics at Harvard, and edited Connaissance des Arts for over 20 years. His books include TASCHEN’s Architecture Now! series, and monographs on Tadao Ando, Norman Foster, Richard Meier, Jean Nouvel, and Zaha Hadid. He is internationally renowned as one of the most popular writers on the subject of architecture.

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Competition: as media partner for the Wearable Futures event taking place in London in December, Dezeen is giving away 50 tickets to attend the two-day exhibition and conference dedicated to technology for the body.

Wearable Futures will explore current and prospective technologies, making links between business, technology, design and fashion.

All forms of wearable technology will be discussed over the two days, with talks and seminars covering how wearables will impact sectors such as health, retail and the city.

Speakers will include designer Daan Roosegaarde, whose projects include clothing that changes opacity when heart rate increases, and technologist James Bridle, who also spoke at our Designed in Hackney Day.

Visitors will be able to try on and test some of the technologies, plus create their own wearable prototypes in a special lab.

The event will take place at London’s Ravensbourne College on 10 and 11 December. Find out more about the event here.

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Competition closes 11 November 2013. Fifty winners will be selected at random and notified by email. Winners’ names will be published in a future edition of our Dezeen Mail newsletter and at the top of this page. Dezeen competitions are international and entries are accepted from readers in any country.

More information from the organisers follows:

Wearable Futures 2013 brings together the worlds of design, technology and social science to uncover the future wearable landscape. Over 10-11 December Ravensbourne in London will play host to 50 thinkers and doers from around the world showcasing, debating, reflecting, and sharing their vision for the future of wearables, from smart materials to new technologies. Speakers include Daan Roosegaarde, Lauren Bowker, James Bridle and Clara Gaggero.

The event will explore wearables across all forms; from those that are embedded to those that surround us; from function and problem solving to enabling expression. The two days will include a wide ranging programme of talks, interactive and immersive installations, and the chance to get your hands dirty experimenting with new technologies and digital making for wearables, as well as designing your own wearable for the future.

Just some of the Wearable Futures speakers:

Lauren Bowker, founder of The Unseen who describes herself as a Materials Alchemist will be talking about the potential of integrating biological chemicals and electronic technology with fashion.

Clara Gaggero, director of Design and Research at Vitamins will be explaining the origins of wearables and their history right up to the current day, and exploring the role of wearables now and in the future.

Caroline Till from Textile Futures will discuss biological design and living technology, in relation to Future Wearables.

Jessi Baker, a Creative Technologist who has worked with clients such as LVMH, Galleries LaFayette and Mulberry, will talk about the role of open data in wearables and the future of retail.

Despina Papadopoulos from Studio 5050 NYC will discuss the ethics of wearables and explore the concept of the qualified self rather than the quantified self.

Leading international make up artist Alex Box will talk about how she continues to push and blur the boundaries between technology, make-up, the skin and the human body.

Simon Roberts, formerly senior design anthropologist at Intel, will describe a set of lenses that helps us understand the different speed at which social and cultural conventions and technology develop and what that means for how we respond to wearables.

Zoe Romano, founder of Makerfaire Rome, an associate at arduino, and founder of openwear.org will talk about Wearables, DIY and Empowerment.

Kuniharu Takei, one of MIT’s Top Innovators Under 35, will be talking about his innovations in nano-materials including current work on a smart bandage that will be able to sense and respond to glucose level, skin temperature and more.

Tomas Diez, the creator of Smart Citizen Kit will be talking about wearables in the city.

Wearable Futures will also be presenting The Futures 10, an exhibition of 2D and 3D responses to questions that we have set to leading thinkers and doers including Ben Hammersley (Wired) and Peter Gregson (the Electric Creative CoLab). Themes that will be explored include Wonder, Consciousness, Echo, Absorb, Hybrid and Memories.

www.wearablefutures.co

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Competition: Dezeen has teamed up with publishers nai010 to give readers the chance to win a copy of a book full of innovative projects designed in the Netherlands over the past year.

Dutch Design Yearbook 2013 is a compilation of exemplary projects designed by Dutch creatives or completed in the Netherlands. The volume is published annually to coincide with Dutch Design Week, taking place from 19 to 27 October this year.

Images of architecture, interiors, installations, products and fashion design are accompanied by text in both Dutch and English.

Featured projects include fashion designer Iris Van Herpen’s Voltage collection of 3D-printed garments and a suspended walkway in Delft.

The book is published by Dutch company nai010 and is available to purchase here.

To enter this competition email your name, age, gender, occupation, and delivery address and telephone number to competitions@dezeen.com with “Dutch Design Yearbook 2013” in the subject line. We won’t pass your information on to anyone else; we just want to know a little about our readers. Read our privacy policy here.

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Competition closes 14 November 2013. Five winners will be selected at random and notified by email. Winners’ names will be published in a future edition of our Dezeen Mail newsletter and at the top of this page. Dezeen competitions are international and entries are accepted from readers in any country.

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650 projects from 18 countries have been whittled down to a final shortlist. Twenty inventions are to be put to James Dyson who will choose the international winner on 711/07/2013 to which they will receive £30,000. Last year’s international winner Dan Watson, developed a SafetyNet, a device to encourage the sustainability of fishing. With the money and support from the James Dyson Award, Dan has now finished prototyping and his device will be taken for sea trials. Hit the jump for our shortlisted favorites!

Competition: James Dyson Award 2013, shortlisted entries

Those with hearing impairments understand speech by using a hearing aid and lip-reading. However in conversation involving a number of people those hard of hearing can get left behind. AWARING is a device which indicates the speaker’s location using a light and the volume of their voice in real time. – Designers: 佳裕 金子

Comb is a redesigned dumper truck. Using an autonomous GPS control system the digger uses improved design and technology to perform its tasks, resulting in a quicker and larger scale operation. Eliminating the need for a driver means the user is able to perform other tasks alongside the operation. – Designers: Rostyslav Akselrud and team from FH Joanneum Graz University of Applied Sciences

Traditional casts are heavy, clumsy, not waterproof, itchy and smelly. In addition they cannot be recycled. Cortex is a 3D printed cast system for fracture support. It is a lightweight, ergonomic, waterproof and ventilated support. After 3D scanning the limb a tight fitting cast is generated, with localised support in relation to the point of fracture. A strong recyclable plastic is used to reduce waste material. – Designer: Jake Evill

Dexterous prosthetic hands are expensive. Handie is an affordable prosthetic hand with inbuilt myoelectric sensors which can read brain signals. Costs have been reduced by using a smartphone to compute the electrical impulses on the skin’s surface. All components of the hand are easily modified and reproduced using a 3D printer. The hand relies on one motor that changes trajectory depending on the shape of an object. – Designer: Hiroshi Yamaura

On traditional stretchers, patients must be lifted and placed onto the canvas. Moving the patient can often cause secondary injury – sometimes worse than the initial injury. Lenify is divided into three pieces, allowing first responders to slide head, body and leg sections under the patient in turn, minimizing how much they have to adjust the patient. It is secured by a handle locking element. – Designer: Ta-Chin Lin

Revolights are a series of LED rings which are clipped onto a bike’s existing rims. The lights in the wheels are powered by hub-mounted lithium-ion battery packs. A fork-mounted magnet works with an integrated accelerometer, to determine when the lights should be illuminated. The result is that the front half of the front rim shines a brilliant white while the back half of the rear rim gives off a bright red glow. – Designer: Kent Frankovich

Sono is a device which can be fitted onto your window eliminating or cancelling certain sounds passing through. The tones are identified using concentric broadband antenna rings, it harvests the energy of electromagnetic noise and similar signals from the Wi-Fi. And in turn allows you to cancel or choose to hear specific tones through the window pane. – Designer: Rudolf Stefanich

Stack is a compact inkjet printer, which is placed on top of a paper pile. When printing, “Stack” slowly moves downwards and swallows the pile until no paper is left. The paper disappears under the printer and exits on top, where it creates a new pile. – Designer: Mugi Yamamoto

Titan arm is an upper-body exoskeleton that augments human strength. It augments the user’s arm strength to reduce fatigue, and braces the back to prevent poor lifting posture. Titan arm can also be used to help stroke and injury victims rebuild muscle and re-learn fine motor control as well as assist people who suffer from permanent injuries or disabilities. – Designers: Elizabeth Beattie, Nick McGill, Nick Parrotta, Niko Vladimirov

Xarius is a portable energy generator that allows the charging of electrical appliances using windpower – making it suitable for areas with limited access to mains electricity. It is composed of a foldable three-wing-system and an internal energy generator. – Designer: David Engelhorn

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Competition: to celebrate the Dezeen and MINI World Tour we’re giving readers the chance to win one of five leather weekend bags designed for MINI by sportswear brand Puma worth £110.

Puma designed the black holdall for MINI to fit travel essentials for a weekend away, with details such as a lime green zip and luggage label plus Internal compartments for credit cards.

The bag has short leather handles for carrying by hand and seatbelt-style straps for slinging it over a shoulder.

To enter this competition email your name, age, gender, occupation, and delivery address and telephone number to competitions@dezeen.com with “MINI Weekender” in the subject line. We won’t pass your information on to anyone else; we just want to know a little about our readers. Read our privacy policy here.

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