Cool Gardens Competition | 2017 Call for Proposals

Excerpt from the competition brief :

“Deadline for submission:
The deadline to submit proposals for Cool Gardens 2017 competition is: January 15th, 2017 at 6PM CST.

* All Registration Forms + Registration Fees must be received by: December 21st, 2016 at 6PM CST.
For further information, please contact: info@coolgardens.ca

General:

Presented by StorefrontMB and The Forks, Cool Gardens celebrates the interface between nature, art, urbanism and design. The exhibition has run in Winnipeg for the past four years, with 2017 marking its fifth anniversary. Past presenters include BGL, SPMB, Scatliff+Miller+Murray, Ewa Tarsia, ATLRG, Micah Lexier and Claude Cormier [ providing a visiting garden from the Jardins de Métis ]. The event is highly accessible to a broad audience including children, tourists, shoppers, cyclists, and business people.

Mirroring Winnipeg’s internationally acclaimed Warming Huts Exhibition on Ice, Cool Gardens places design culture at the centre of summer activities in Winnipeg and Brandon, while offering pleasant relief from summer’s exasperations. In Winnipeg, installations will run from Main Street to Provencher Boulevard, highlighting this generally unrecognized pedestrian linkage that bridges the Anglophone and Francophone communities. Installations along this axis provide an engaging, creative, and active experience for downtown Winnipeg. A satellite site in Brandon includes the Riverbank Discovery Centre.

Cool Gardens will take place from July 2nd to September 24th, 2017. In addition to the 3 new gardens selected by competition, Cool Gardens 2017 will include an invited garden by Calgary based architect Marc Boutin, as well as the re-mounting of 4 previous gardens: 2° [ LADR Landscape Architects ], Cure de Ville [ Janelle Tougas ], Cool Dots [ Ewa Tarsia ], and Le Rendez Vouz [ LaTourelle + Witthöft ].

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Concept:

The Call for Entries 2017 seeks creative entries that prompt curiosity, play, and appreciation of urban spaces by highlighting the significance of nature, art, and design. Central to Cool Gardens is the idea that contemporary design can instigate participation in public spaces in interactive, critical, poetic, and meaningful ways. The intention of this emergent festival is to provoke questions about our public spaces and about the role of landscape architecture and design to give enhanced meaning and value to our urban culture. Cool Gardens thus animates our public spaces with a critical collection of experiences – expanding the idea of what a garden might be.

Cool Gardens expands the vocabulary of garden design and serves as a learning tool. As we go back to our boulevards and backyards we hope to spread the creativity of Cool Gardens to the everyday practice of gardening in our city and region, creating in the process a dialogue on contemporary design with our sister cities across Canada and the world.”

For more information…

To visit the Cool Gardens website…

To visit the StorefrontMB website…

To visit The Forks website…