Enter this // Not Just a Container -- A contest of design & community development

You’ve got a shipping container: 8’ wide by 20’ long by 9.5’ high. Now what? Urban Spaces is challenging you to create the most innovative use of a shipping container to be located at the brand-new Dekalb Market, a new community destination coming to Brooklyn’s Fulton Mall this spring.

Design a place for art, shelter, food, commerce, agriculture – whatever you can dream up. Click here for more information. A team of judges including Piers Fawkes (founder and Editor-in-Chief of PSFK), Josh Rubin (Editor-in-Chief of Cool Hunting), Rachel Wharton (Deputy Editor of Edible Manhattan and Edible Brooklyn, and our very own 3rd Ward Executive Director, Jason Goodman, will be judging entries on design, sustainability, community impact and entrepreneurship. 

The winner will receive a 6-month container at the Dekalb Market, a $3,000 budget, and a 3rd Ward Membership to give them the tools, space and networking opportunities to make their entrepreneurial dream a reality.

Click here for the chance to showcase your vision in one of the most hotly-anticipated urban projects this year! Entries are due by April 9, 2011 11:59 EST.