Circular Economy Marketplace

Markets have always been the heart of communities—places of exchange, interaction, and livelihood. However, conventional marketplaces today generate enormous waste, consume high energy, and follow linear patterns of use and disposal. The Circular Economy Marketplace competition challenges participants to rethink the traditional market as a regenerative system—where resources circulate, waste becomes a resource, and architecture actively supports sustainable behavior.

This competition invites architects, designers, planners, and students to envision a marketplace that embodies circular economy principles through design, materiality, operations, and community engagement.