Open International Competition to Design Innovative Furniture for Street Vendors 2025-26

  • Your Winning Design 2025 – 04
  • Winner Design 2023 – 03
  • Winner Design 2018 – 01
  • Winner Design 2020 – 02

Ketham’s Atelier

International Competition 04

Innovative Furniture Design for Street Vendors

Winning Project will be
Built – Shared – Published

Call for Submissions
This is your chance to design with purpose creating innovative, sustainable solutions that empower small vendors and transform urban street life. Your creativity could make a real difference.

Design. Build. Share. Inspire.

Aim & Objective

This competition invites participants to design innovative furniture for street vendors in India, such as fruit sellers, flower sellers, toy vendors, vegetable vendors, and street food sellers.

The goal is to create furniture that is:

  • Ergonomically feasible and user-friendly
  • Low-cost and flexible
  • Portable, allowing vendors to carry it home or transport it easily by bicycle or scooter
  • Easy to assemble and dismantle, as vendors cannot leave their setups on the street

The design should cater to one vendor only, with a maximum area coverage of 2–3 sqm.

Materials may include wood combined with steel, bamboo, metal, or upcycled waste materials, promoting sustainability and circular design.

The jury’s decision will be final.

Recognition & Impact

  • The winning project will be built, shared, and published.
  • Shortlisted projects will be featured in a Special Book.
  • The built prototype will be handed over through Thinking Hand NGO, supporting a local vendor in need or someone starting their own business.

Competition Guidelines & Submission

  1. Submission Format
    • One A1-size portrait sheet in PDF format only.
  2. Registration & Identification
    • Registered participants will receive a unique competition ID.
    • The unique ID must be placed on the top-right corner of the A1 sheet.
    • Do not include author names, company names, or any identifying information on the A1 sheet.
  3. Originality
    • Projects must be the original work of the authors.
    • Copied or plagiarized ideas will result in disqualification.
  4. Team Composition
    • Maximum of two authors per team.
  5. Additional Documents
    • Submit a short bio and photograph of each author in a separate Word file.

Important Dates

  • Early Registration: 15 October 2025
  • Regular Registration: 15 December 2025
  • Late Registration: 10 February 2026
  • Results Announcement: 15 March 2026
  • Working Drawings: 30 March 2026
  • Build & Share: 15 May 2026

Jury:

International Jury

How to Participate

Please register and send your Registration receipt to get Unique Competition ID, Q&A and Submission to:
📩 innovationfurnituredesign@gmail.com

Regular – Innovative Furniture 04

€99.00

Late – Innovative Furniture 04

€199.00

Organised and Funded by: http://www.kethamsatelier.com
Supported by: http://www.thinkinghandngo.com

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