Are You "Ready to Rumble?"


Architects Without Borders
is an organization in Seattle that brings together volunteer architects and designers to collaborate with underserved communities. Together, the community and volunteers design and implement ecologically sensitive, culturally-appropriate and life-changing projects. Now, AWB is asking you for your expertise to create places of resiliency for when the “big one” hits:

Will you be ready when the next earthquake strikes Seattle? According to “The Really Big One” published in The New Yorker in July 2015, the Cascadia Subduction Zone, spanning from Northern California to Southern Canada, has a 1 in 3 chance of a big earthquake (8.6 magnitude) and a 1 in 10 chance of a very big earthquake (9.2 magnitude) in the next 50 years.

In an effort to help promote earthquake awareness and readiness, Architects Without Borders – Seattle is hosting an open design competition, called Ready to Rumble, to change the way we think about earthquake preparedness in the Puget Sound area. AWB-Seattle challenges you to propose life-saving tools, methods, systems, or products at any scale in order to get our neighbors and community members ready for the next “big one.”

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August 15, 2016

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September 1, 2016 at 12 PM

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September 10 – 11, 2016

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