Paradisiacal, utopian, dystopian, heterotopian – islands hold an especially enigmatic and beguiling place in our geographical imagination. Existing in juxtaposition to what’s around them, islands are figures of otherness and difference. Differentiated from their contexts and as much myth as reality, islands have their own rules, their own stories, their own characters, their own ecologies, their own functions, and their own forms.

The LA+ IMAGINATION open international design ideas competition asks you to design a new island. You can locate it anywhere in the world, program it any way you want, and give it any form and purpose you can imagine.

CALENDAR
Submission deadline: Friday, June 2, 2017 at 11.59 EDT (New York, USA time) THE SUBMISSIONS PERIOD IS NOW CLOSED
Winners announced: Tuesday, August 1, 2017
Winners + select entries published: The LA+IMAGINATION issue will be launched in spring 2018
Q+A: Questions may be submitted to laplus@design.upenn.edu at any time before May 25, 2017. The Q+A page on this website may be updated regularly, and without notice.

AWARDS
USD $10,000 total prize money
• 5 winners to receive USD $2,000 and feature publication in LA+ Journal’s LA+ IMAGINATION issue
• 10 honorable mentions to receive publication in LA+ Journal’s LA+ IMAGINATION issue

Winning, shortlisted, and select other entries will be published in the LA+ IMAGINATION issue in Spring 2018, along with interviews with each jury member. Find out who won and why by subscribing to LA+ Journal – it’s just $29.90 a year (two issues).


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