Land Art Generator Initiative partners with NYC Parks

The Land Art Gen­er­a­tor Ini­tia­tive (LAGI), a vision­ary project to pro­mote the design and instal­la­tion of energy-producing art­works around the world, has part­nered with the New York City Parks Depart­ment to host an energy design com­pe­ti­tion for the new 2200 acre Freshkills Park in Staten Island: New York City’s largest park. The com­pe­ti­tion dead­line is July 1; the prize is $20,000.

Design guide­line pdf.

The orga­niz­ers are also host­ing a par­al­lel com­pe­ti­tion for high school stu­dents who are inter­ested in sub­mit­ting ideas on how to power NYC with art. The prize at the high school level is $1000.

LAGI also pro­vides a rich, thor­ough online tuto­r­ial on energy and on renew­able gen­er­a­tion sys­tems, pro­vid­ing a ground­ing for design­ers that would like to con­sider gen­er­a­tion as an aspect of cre­ative projects. The initiative’s over­all goal:

“Through sim­ple acts, we can influ­ence pub­lic opin­ion and con­vince the world that sus­tain­abil­ity is not just about resources, but also about social har­mony. Let’s imag­ine and design a sus­tain­able future.”