WINNERS OF LA+ IMAGINATION DESIGN IDEAS COMPETITION
LA+ IMAGINATION received 180 island proposals from entrants located in 33 countries.
LA+ IMAGINATION received 180 island proposals from entrants located in 33 countries.
“The winning entries tell us something about what’s lurking in the unfettered imagination of contemporary design culture:
we have monstrous ecological machines, places of melancholy, emergent digital natures, and of course, those old curmudgeons, utopia and dystopia. It’s an amazing archipelago of ideas.”
- Jury Chair, Richard Weller
we have monstrous ecological machines, places of melancholy, emergent digital natures, and of course, those old curmudgeons, utopia and dystopia. It’s an amazing archipelago of ideas.”
- Jury Chair, Richard Weller
LA+ Journal's LA+ IMAGINATION design ideas competition asked landscape architects, architects, and artists to create a new island. There was really only one rule: the island could not be bigger than one square kilometer. Entrants were asked to provide a plan and section and supporting imagery, and explain their idea under 300 words. The competition received 180 entries from 33 countries.
LA+ IMAGINATION’s jury was comprised of James Corner (Field Operations), Marion Weiss (Weiss/Manfredi Architects), Javier Arpa (The Why Factory, Delft), Mathew Gandy (Professor of Geography, Cambridge University), Mark Kingwell (Professor of Philosophy, University of Toronto), and Richard Weller (Professor of Landscape Architecture, University of Pennsylvania). After several rounds of judging the jury awarded five winners who will each receive $2,000 in prizemoney plus feature publication in LA+ Journal’s forthcoming LA+ IMAGINATION issue (out early Spring 2018).
• “The Island of Lost Objects” by Jacky Bowring
• “Coastal Paradox” by Bradley Cantrell (University of Virginia), Fionn Byrne (University of British Columbia) + Emma Mendel (Nelson Byrd Woltz)
• “United Plastic Nation” by Noel Schardt + Bjoern Muendner (Freischaerler Architects)
• “The Dredge Islands” by Neeraj Bhatia, Cesar Lopez + Jeremy Jacinth (The Open Workshop)
• “Pla-Kappa: A Cautionary Tale of Accumulation” by Tei Carpenter, Arianna Deane + Ashely Kuo (Agency—Agency)
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The jury further awarded 10 honorable mentions that will also be published in the Spring 2018 issue of LA+ Journal, along with interviews with each of the jury members and a selection of entries making up the Salon des Refusés.
LA+ Journal thanks everyone who participated in the LA+ IMAGINATION design ideas competition. To stay informed of LA+ news including future competitions, stay connected by joining the LA+ Journal mailing list. Subscribe to LA+ Journal for just $29.90/yr (two issues) to see whether your entry appears in LA+ IMAGINATION.
Register for the LA+ Mailing List to be among the first to receive competition announcements and other news from LA+ Journal.
LA+ IMAGINATION’s jury was comprised of James Corner (Field Operations), Marion Weiss (Weiss/Manfredi Architects), Javier Arpa (The Why Factory, Delft), Mathew Gandy (Professor of Geography, Cambridge University), Mark Kingwell (Professor of Philosophy, University of Toronto), and Richard Weller (Professor of Landscape Architecture, University of Pennsylvania). After several rounds of judging the jury awarded five winners who will each receive $2,000 in prizemoney plus feature publication in LA+ Journal’s forthcoming LA+ IMAGINATION issue (out early Spring 2018).
• “The Island of Lost Objects” by Jacky Bowring
• “Coastal Paradox” by Bradley Cantrell (University of Virginia), Fionn Byrne (University of British Columbia) + Emma Mendel (Nelson Byrd Woltz)
• “United Plastic Nation” by Noel Schardt + Bjoern Muendner (Freischaerler Architects)
• “The Dredge Islands” by Neeraj Bhatia, Cesar Lopez + Jeremy Jacinth (The Open Workshop)
• “Pla-Kappa: A Cautionary Tale of Accumulation” by Tei Carpenter, Arianna Deane + Ashely Kuo (Agency—Agency)
VIEW WINNING ENTRIES
The jury further awarded 10 honorable mentions that will also be published in the Spring 2018 issue of LA+ Journal, along with interviews with each of the jury members and a selection of entries making up the Salon des Refusés.
LA+ Journal thanks everyone who participated in the LA+ IMAGINATION design ideas competition. To stay informed of LA+ news including future competitions, stay connected by joining the LA+ Journal mailing list. Subscribe to LA+ Journal for just $29.90/yr (two issues) to see whether your entry appears in LA+ IMAGINATION.
Register for the LA+ Mailing List to be among the first to receive competition announcements and other news from LA+ Journal.
