I found a refreshing breadth of style and subject matter in competition entries.
Details, details, details….Details matter in a competition like this! BirdPost was niche, but it was amazing execution.
Part of what matters in this competition is WikiLeaks's image: reckless, arrogant outlaws?
But I don't think age really matters in a competition like this".
In most professions, and even, for that matter, in the scientific community, competition insures that, over time, good ideas are diffused through the whole system: people who don't absorb and adapt fail.
For example, a competition for NASA, the Royal Astronomical Society, and the European Space Agency identified new ways to map dark matter in the universe, while another competition helped better determine the likelihood that the health of a HIV patient would improve or deteriorate.
As debates over the cognitive or substantive aspects of Jesus' participation in God became both intense and refined, the pursuit of essences became almost a matter of competition in the minds of the Apologists and the formulators of doctrines in the 3rd through the 6th centuries.
One wonders how much the architectural competition will matter in the long run.
Policy proposals about the content of the Ofsted framework, the battle of the middle tiers (commissioners versus local authorities versus independent directors), and (yawn) more competition only matter in relation to how they further these wider aims of good teaching, a broad curriculum and better support for children and their families.
In a matter of months navigation on the mobile platform has become a commodity, table stakes in competitions for a global audience of hyper-connected nomads.
