Image credit: The SHIFT Architecture ChallengeTheOntario Association of Architects(OAA) has announced that the call for entries to the SHIFT2025 Challenge is now open and has announced the jury for the competition.This program is an aspirational ideas competition that aims to highlight the architecture professions distinct contribution to addressing societal issues, with past themes having focused on health, resiliency, and infrastructure. The SHIFT Challenge is open to individuals or teams led by someone who holds an OAA status such as an architect, intern architect, student associate, retired member, or honorary member.This years theme, Reshaping Communities, asks the profession to explore how they can develop sustainable solutions. From urban revitalization and reconceptualization to adaptations responding to climate change and other emergencies, the competition is seeking conceptual, yet possible, architectural ideas for communities that enable all people to find stability, a sense of belonging, and hope.The deadline for submissions isFriday, January 17, 2025.All eligible entries will be reviewed by a jury consisting of: Dr. Elizabeth English, professor at the University of Waterloo School of Architecture and founder of the Buoyant Foundation Project,Erica Gomirato, intern architect at Perry + Perry Architects in Sudbury, Shane Laptiste, architect and founder of the Studio of Contemporary Architecture (SOCA) and 2023 Canadian Prix de Rome recipient, Jean Philippe Larocque, co-founder of Larocque Elder Architects and chair of the North Bay Society of Architects (NBSA); and Janet Rosenberg, founding principal of Janet Rosenberg & Studio, and a renowned landscape architect with more than 40 years of experience and award-winning public and private projects.These experts will be joined by a jury facilitator: architect Diarmuid Nash, partner at Moriyama Teshima Architects, professor, former OAA president, and recipient of the 2022 OAA award for Lifetime Design Achievement.The selected SHIFT2025 submissions will be collected in a special publication and shared online, as well as celebrated at next years Conference in Ottawa.To learn more, clickhere.The post OAA issues announces jury for SHIFT2025 Challenge appeared first on Canadian Architect.