Lost Spaces 2015 Call for Ideas
Registration Deadline: Friday, Mar 20, 201511:59 PMEDT
Submission Deadline: Monday, Mar 30, 201511:59 PMEDT
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Lost Spaces 2015 Call for Ideas
Calgary, Canada
Design Talks Institute (d.talks), a design advocacy organization, in collaboration with WATERSHED+, a part of the City of Calgary’s Utilities & Environmental Protection Public Art program, aim to address a particular challenge of public space--what to do with seemingly remnant pieces of public property.
A ‘lost space’ is any space that remains underutilized within our urban environment. They might be leftover pieces, a ghost of the planning past. Lost spaces are part of the public realm, rarely designed to function with both social and environmental benefit to the city.
The Lost Spaces competition is a call for ideas to reframe how underused spaces in Calgary might be used. What opportunities do lost spaces afford?
You may consider a lost space as a passageway, a roundabout, space between two buildings, a highway shoulder, or remnants of the city’s history and memory. We’d like to ask you to dream, take risks and stretch what we think is possible.
January 5th, 2015 - Registration opens
March 20th, 2015 - Registration and questions deadline
March 30th, 2015 - Submission due (23:59 MDT)
April 29th, 2015 - Winners announced
produced by: d.talks
supported by: WATERSHED+ and The City of Calgary
more info: http://www.dtalks.org/call-for-ideas
to register: [email protected]
The Lost Spaces 2015 Design Competition is a call for ideas for re-envisioning remnant public space in Calgary. The ideas competition is open to anyone including architects, artists, designers, engineers and students. We’re looking for cross-disciplinary teams to collectively respond to the diverse challenges of design, social sustainability and low impact design improvements.
The jury includes: Susan Szenasy, Editor in Chief of Metropolis Magazine, Shane Coen, the founder of the landscape architecture firm Coen + Partners, Pierre Thibault of the architecture firm Atilier Pierre Thibault, Shauna Thompson, curator at The Esker Foundation, and independent curator Diana Sherlock.
A top prize of $7,500 CAD and up to five (5) field prizes of $3,000 CAD each will be awarded. A shortlist of up to twelve (12) will be exhibited in the spring of 2015. Those shortlisted and not awarded a prize will receive a shortlist renumeration fee of $1,000. An entry is not entitled to more than one prize. Only shortlisted projects will receive renumeration. Awards and renumeration will be granted only to projects considered by the jury to meet the formal regulations and the criteria.
The City of Calgary departments of Water Services, Roads and Transportation, Parks, Planning, and Public Art have collectively offered input into the criteria for the competition. Their aim is to both improve upon existing built form while setting a precedent for the design of future projects.
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