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Wildlife Pavilion Design Competition
Deadline 31st of January
Do you want to design a storytelling wildlife pavilion that can inspire new mythologies and folklore, in a way that moves us away from our current anthropocentric way of being in nature?
In the context of TerraViva’s Wildlife Pavilion competition, Fundacja Ziemniaki i has created an open call for proposals for folkloric storytelling pavilions. If your project is chosen then you will have the chance to work with an expert team of mentors to help you develop the idea before it's submitted for TerraViva’s competition.
We’re looking for ideas and designs for pavilions that propose other ways of lingering in a landscape that don’t prioritise the human experience. Our foundation believes that one of the ways we can protect our environment is by telling stories and singing about nature again. In an age where forests are only conceptualised as carbon sinks, we want to develop a more reverential relationship to nature. How can stories or a songs be co-authored by nature? And what would a space look like that could facilitate such an idea?
If this sound exciting to you then submit your idea now to: opencall[@]ziemniakii.eu
The expert mentors who’ll guide you are conceptual designer Noud Sleumer, landscape architect Natalia Budnik, storyteller and climate campaigner Adam Markuszewski and Ziemniaki i founder Josh Plough.
Please submit two A4 pages that visualise your proposal with a text explaining your idea and why you would benefit from the mentorship. Please also include a small bio explaining who you are, where you live and which design software you can use. The successful applicant should be able to demonstrate skills in design softwares like CAD and Adobe suite (or any similar alternatives). This is because we need to submit visualisations and renders of the proposal to Terraviva. You can submit a proposal as an individual and a group.
The successful applicant(s) will benefit from both group mentoring and one-on-one feedback sessions.
If your project is selected as one of the top three winners of Terraviva’s competition then you will keep the 80% of the prize money (1st: €3000, 2nd €2000, 3rd €1000). The remaining 20% will be assigned to the mentors Natalia Budnik, Noud Sleumer, Adam Markuszewski and Fundacja Ziemniaki i.
If your proposal is selected as a Gold Mention then you keep the entire prize money amount of €250.
The competition is open to anyone currently residing in/are from the region that is known as central and eastern Europe. Preference will be given to those at the early stages of their careers.
You will keep full authorship rights to your designs. But by submitting your work you give TerraViva and Fundacja Ziemniaki i the right to publish and share your project online and in exhibitions/magazines.