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Posterheroes.org, a poster competition about energy policy, Turin, Italy
Please see the original web site for more information and downloadable application forms.


Brief
Posterheroes PROPOSES A DEBATE ON FUTURE'S ENERGETIC POLICIES, AFTER THE DECISION TOOK BY THE ITALIAN GOVERNMENT TO OPEN A NEW NUCLEAR SEASON, INTERRUPTED BY THE 1987 REFERENDUM. THE ITALIAN ISSUE OPENED A DELIBERATION INVOLVING THE WHOLE INTERNATIONAL SOCIO-ECONOMIC AND ENVIRONMENTAL SITUATION. THE CONTEST REPRESENTS AN MEANS OF COMMUNICATION FOR YOUNG PEOPLE, WHO MAY EXPRESS THEIR ENERGETIC OPINIONS WHICH MAY THEN BE ADOPTED FOR A SUSTAINABLE FUTURE.

WHAT KIND OF ENERGETIC POLICIES SHOULD WE FOLLOW?
SHOULD WE FOCUS ON THE DEVELOPMENT AND THE DISTRIBUTION OF SUSTAINABLE RESOURCES TO PRODUCE ENERGY, OR SHOULD WE CARRY ON NON - SUSTAINABLE RESOURCES? COUNTRIES HAVE NOT GOT THE ECONOMIC RESOURCES TO UNDERTAKE BOTH DIRECTIONS AT THE SAME TIME. WOULD CONSUMERS PREFER PRODUCTIONS OF RENEWABLE ENERGIES SPREAD THROUGHOUT THEIR COUNTRIES, STRUCTURED IN A SYSTEM OF COMPETITORS, OR WOULD THEY RATHER PREFER NUCLEAR POWER STATIONS MANAGED BY PRIVATES CONTROLLING THE ENERGY COST, MOVING FROM OIL MULTINATIONAL COMPANIES TO ATOMICS ONES? IN WHAT WAY MAY CITIZENS COULD BE INVOLVED IN ENERGETIC CHOICES? IS ENVIRONMENT STILL WILLING TO ACCEPT PROJECTS FOCUSED ON AN OUTRIGHT EXPLOIT OF NATURAL RESOURCES?

TIME IS RUNNING OUT! ANSWER WITH A POSTER!
IMAGINE IN A POSTER-PROJECT (50X70) A POSSIBLE FUTURE OF ENERGY PRODUCTIONS BASED ON NON-SUSTAINABLE RESOURCES (COAL, OIL, NATURAL GAS, HYDROCARBON, URANIUM) OR BASED ON THE RENEWABLE ONES (SOLAR, HYDRAULICS, TIDAL ENERGY, GEOTHERMAL, FROM BIOMASSES, HYDROGEN, WIND POWER, OTHER). EXPRESS YOUR OPINION, SEND AWARENESS MESSAGES, SUGGEST NEW EXPLOITS, PROMOTE DIFFUSION, INCITE THE DEBATE, THE EXCHANGE, THE KNOWLEDGE, THE INVOLVEMENT.

Jury
The jury is composed by:
LUCÍA CASTRO TRIAY
CRISTINA CHIAPPINI
GUNTER PAULI
MASSIMO PITIS
PAOLO TASSINARI
PASQUALE VOLPE
OMAR VULPINARI

Awards
Posterheroes doesn't award any prize. Best works selected from the jury will be published on the final catalogue and they will become part of an itinerant exhibition and its related events. every partecipants will be published in a gallery of our website.
Posterheroes will publish, on the website, any other prize provided by sponsors.

Requirements
There are no age, sex, nationality and occupation restrictions, the contest is free-for-all except for posterheroes' organizers, Plug members and their relatives.

How to partecipate
Each individual person or group can participate to the contest (in the second case a referent will be demanded) MAXIMUM 2 WORKS. For every script , a 500 characters description may be attached. To send your work please follow the instruction on posterheroes' web site respecting the important feature:
Size 50 X 70 cm
Resolution MAX 150 dpi (2953 x 4134 px)
Weight MAX 5000 kb.

Deadline
Works have to be delivered by upload on Posterheroes web site from 15th November 2010 to 15th February 2011 (12 p.m).

Info
www.posterheroes.org
info@posterheroes.org




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