LA+ ICONOCLAST asks you to reimagine and redesign Central Park for the
21st century. LA+ ICONOCLAST is an international open design ideas competition.
No professional qualifications are required to enter.
LA+ ICONOCLAST asks you to redesign New York’s Central Park, which has
been fictionally devastated by eco-terrorists. Here’s the brief:
Central Park is arguably the canonical work of modern landscape architecture.
Its aesthetic and socio-political ideals of health, beauty and democracy
underpin the profession of landscape architecture, which Olmsted first named,
to this day. Writing of the park in 1973, the artist Robert Smithson claimed
that Olmsted “combined both art and reclamation in
Central Park in a way that
is truly in advance of his times.” But what would Olmsted do today? What will
you do?
This competition asks that you redesign Central Park, starting, as
Olmsted and Calvert Vaux did, from scratch. In doing so this competition seeks
to explore the following questions:
1) If in parks, no matter how faux or superficial, we manifest a
collective aesthetic expression of our relationship with the “natural” world,
then what, on the occasion of nature’s disappearance, is the aesthetic of that
relationship today?
2) What is the role of a large urban park today?
3) How might issues of aesthetics on the one hand and performance on
the other coalesce into what Olmsted described as “a single work of art”?
4) Given the extraordinary history of the Central Park site, the
competition asks how the new interprets the old, and how together, the new and
the old anticipate the future.
In short, the brief is to create the concept for a new, 21st century
Central Park. The brief asks for a plan, a short explanatory text, and
discretionary supporting imagery. The competition favors conceptual rigor and
imagination, and places a premium on engagement with the questions outlined
above. Basic issues of feasibility, materiality, circulation, and programming
will also be taken into consideration by the jury.
CALENDAR
Submission deadline: Wednesday October 10, 2018 at 11.59 EDT (New York,
USA time).
Winners announced: Tuesday, November 27, 2018.
Winners + select entries published: The LA+ ICONOCLAST issue will be
published in Fall 2019.
AWARDS
US $20,000 total prize money
5 winners to receive US$4,000, a certificate, and publication in LA+
Journal’s LA+ ICONOCLAST issue.
10 honorable mentions to receive a certificate and publication in LA+
Journal’s LA+ ICONOCLAST issue.
No comments:
Post a Comment