Deadline: 29-Nov-22
The International Garden Festival is launching a call for proposals to select designers to create the new temporary gardens for the Festival’s 24th edition.
Building on the success of the past summer (where 60,000 visitors safely toured twenty-five garden installations on the theme of Adaptation), the Festival is seeking projects that explore the valorization, transmission and reactualization of traditional knowledge and savoir-faire. Racines / Roots is the theme to which they are inviting designers to respond with their proposals to imagine a present and a future that is ecologically, economically and culturally responsible by drawing on the teachings of past generations.
The jury for the 2023 Festival will choose five projects from this call for proposals. Designers are invited to design a garden that can take place in one or other of the axes of the Festival. The artistic and technical committee of the Festival will identify, in collaboration with the designers, the site that will best showcase their project. Designers will be asked to imagine their garden for exhibition for at least two summers and to propose strategies for the repurposing or recycling of the garden or its materials after the end of its exhibition.
Funding Information
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The budget for the creation and construction of each garden is $25,000 (CAN). This budget is divided in the following fashion:
- $5,000 for the designers’ honorarium, which is paid to the designers in two installments;
- Up to $15,000 for the purchase of materials necessary for the realization of the project (including engineering or other fees if required). This budget is managed jointly by the Festival and the designer;
- A team of Festival staff build each garden. The budget for labour is $5,000. This sum is managed by the Festival.
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The Festival assumes for each garden, upon presentation of supporting invoices, the travel expenses up to:
- $ 1,000 (CAN) for Quebec designers;
- $ 2,000 (CAN) for designers from other Canadian provinces and territories;
- $ 3,000 (CAN) for designers coming from abroad.
Eligibility Criteria
- This call for proposals is open to all landscape architects, architects, visual artists and multidisciplinary teams from Canada and abroad. The Festival encourages participants to form multidisciplinary teams. Applicants are limited to one proposal, either as individuals or as a team. Participants can be from a single city or country or cross international boundaries.
- Designers whose work has been exhibited in one of the last three editions (2020, 2021 or 2022) of the Festival are not eligible for this call for proposals.
Selection Process
The gardens will be selected by a jury on the basis of:
- The creative response to the brief for the 2023 edition: Racines / Roots;
- The originality, coherence and clarity of the concept and the creative approach;
- The contribution of the proposed approach to the art of the garden and its renewal;
- The positioning or critical basis of the proposal with regard to the practice of garden design.
- All participants will receive the results of the competition by email. In addition to designers selected by this international call for proposals, the Festival may also select designers by invitation.
For more information, visit International Garden Festival.
For more information, visit https://www.affta.ab.ca/news/call-proposals-%E2%80%93-24th-international-garden-festival
