Benilde Open Design and Art 2024
In celebration of its 35th year, the De La Salle College of Saint Benilde launches the Benilde Open Design and Art 2024 (Benilde Open), an initiative that welcomes artists, architects, technologists, engineers, industrial designers, craftsmen, illustrators, textile designers, animators, playwrights, composers, poets, filmmakers, cinematographers, lighting designers, fashion designers, chefs and all creative practitioners – to heed the call to submit proposals to realize projects that have not seen the light of day.
Announcing the Benilde Open Call
The Benilde Open Call thematically explores the curious mindset. Proposals should revolve around curiosities on movement and its relationship to sustainability; the shuttling of thinking across craft and technology; and the culturing of the virtual with the real. The call further seeks design and art projects marked by an appetite for investigation and experimentation, for tinkering that fuels renovation and innovation.
Submissions of proposals begin December 1, 2023 and end January 31, 2024. They will announce all selected proposals by March 2024.
A noteworthy jury will review and select the entries. It will come from local and international advocates representing the creative industries. They will grant up to Php 300,000 net of taxes to each of the ten projects to assist in bringing them to fruition.
Get Ready for the Best of Benilde!
The Benilde Open Design and Art 2024 also features the Best of Benilde, a juried degree exhibition of student works. An open call for proposals is also extended to all students of De La Salle College of Saint Benilde: School of Environment & Design, School of Arts, Culture & Performance, School of New Media, School of Diplomacy & Governance, School of Hotel, Restaurant & Institution Management, School of Management & Information Technology, School of Multidisciplinary Studies, and the School of Deaf Education & Applied Deaf Studies.
Moreover, they encourage students to submit proposals for school projects that resonate with the idea of curiosities. It spans sustainability and movement, the intersection of craft and technology, and the exploration of digital or virtual domains.
The Best of Benilde delves into these queries: Is there such a world? Can such a world be more than imagined? Can we create foundational designs and proposals for such worlds to become more than just fanciful ideas?
Envisioning the Future of Design and Art
Dedicated to shaping art and design sensibilities, the Benilde Design and Art Open 2024 champions innovative and collaborative projects across diverse creative disciplines within and outside the school. Moreover, a working team of convenors, including faculty, associates, or consultants in service of the school—Ayi Magpayo, Rita Nazareno, Gabby Lichauco, Joselina Cruz, and Dindin Araneta—along with Benilde President, Br. Dodo Fernandez, a visual artist, facilitates the project.
The convenors share, “It’s the kind of creative democracy that should be encouraged, one that cuts across geography, social status, privilege, gender, power, disciplines, and even education. The inquisitiveness of a curious mind could well be the impetus in the articulation of a multiplicity of creativities. Creativity also manifests through the most surprising modes in a manner akin to the distinct nature of knowledge. As in the spirit of any Open we would like to affirm that it welcomes all proposals across disciplines and inspirations.”
For more information on the Benilde Design and Art Open 2024 and the call for proposals in two categories – Benilde Open and Best of Benilde, please visit the official website: open.benilde.edu.ph and follow the social media platforms: @benildeopen on IG and Tiktok and BenildeOpen on FB. For further inquiries, send an email to benildeopen@benilde.edu.ph.
