Do you have ideas on how to integrate green infrastructure in urban places?
Submit your solutions in this international ideas competition to develop London's spaces to create a new landscape for the city.
Aim:
To show how green infrastructure, the network of green spaces, rivers and lakes that intersperse and connect villages, towns and cities, can have a huge and exciting impact on the way in which we live in the capital.
Competition:
- Submissions are invited for an open ideas competition for a new London landscape. The competition, organised by the Landscape Institute, the Garden Museum and the Mayor of London will be judged by a panel of experts including the founders of New York’s High Line. Entrants are encouraged to put forward ideas for new green spaces and places in the city that could includeinnovations in transport or other services which could add to the capital’s green infrastructure.
- Submissions need not be constrained by any restrictions such as current planning law, land ownership, budgets or health and safety issues. Anyone may submit an entry. This is an opportunity for a new generation of ideas to be critiqued by the creators of New York’s High Line, Joshua David and Robert Hammond.
- Proposals should engage communities with green infrastructure in the spirit of the High Line; we are not seeking a replica of this project but one which responds to a specific London site.
- An expert panel will draw up a shortlist of no more than 20 submissions. The shortlisted entries will be on view at an exhibition at the Garden Museum throughout the Symposium and until midNovember. Shortlisted entries will also be included in the November 2012 issue of Landscape, the journal of the Landscape Institute. The winner will be announced by Boris Johnson, Mayor of London on Monday, 8 October 2012.
Submission Format:
- One A1 board (841x549mm)
- Included on the A1 board should be: A visual representation of your idea, this can be in any medium - painting, drawing, collage, photography, CAD drawing
- An indication of the location for your proposed project
- A statement of no more than 250 words which includes the title of your idea, description of the proposal and why and how your idea does what you want it to do
- Your name and/or organisation name
- Your registration number – this will be sent to you when you register online
- The board can be presented landscape or portrait
- 3D submissions can be accepted to occupy an area no larger than A1 cubed
Application Details:
- Entrants may base their proposal on any sites in London within the boundary of the Greater London Authority.
- Entrants should assume that there are no constraints such as land ownership, land prices, budgets or health and safety concerns. Although proposals should address a particular site, entrants may choose to propose methods, systems or elements which could be replicated throughout the city.
- Entries can range from a series of interventions to bold landmark statements, but they must provide the public with a unique outdoor experience which works with London’s green infrastructure and which demonstrates a keen sensitivity to the chosen site.
- Ideas which could be explored might include the following: (A) new ideas about the relationship between architecture and public and private green spaces; (B) green landmarks stimulating civic pride and drawing tourism and/or regeneration to an area; (C) landscape as living heritage and landscape as culture; (D) dramatic increase of trees and use of trees in the city how to embed green infrastructure design into existing hard landscape; (E) city-wide access to greened roof spaces reinterpretation of uses for derelict or underused spaces connecting green corridors or creating inventive transport links to green spaces solving problems of drainage through design addressing the impact of climate change with design creating edible landscapes and shared cultivation areas enhancing ecosystems and wildlife
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- All entries must be registered online at: www.landscapeinstitute.org/ideas. You will be provided with a registration number which must be incorporated into your submission.
- Submissions are to be sent to the following address by Friday 14 September at 2:00pm, to: The Garden Museum, Lambeth Palace Road, London SE1 7LB
