SPROUTING MINDS

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ISOLA PEPE VERDE AND ISOLA ART CENTER INVITE ARTISTS AND ARCHITECTS TO SUBMIT A PROPOSAL FOR OUR OPEN CALL TITLED “SPROUTING MINDS” WITH THE OBJECTIVE TO REDESIGN ISOLA PEPE VERDE’S GARDEN IN MILAN.

It will be assessed by an internationally renowned jury and requires participants to realise, in a chronological sequence (3 lots in 3 sequential stages), a design proposal that rethinks the space of isola pepe verde while maintaining the functional needs and its collective and shared identity.

In particular, the competition calls for a project that could transform the entire site, but with a specific focus on the playground, the first area intended for renewal.

The project must serve as an alternative to the city’s urban or “global” public spaces which reflect a toneless international design: in this sense, the playground becomes a hologram to reimagine an urban transformation rooted in actions that are molecular, identitarian and creative based on small-scale spaces and their interaction.

The theme of the game and the invention of new rules thus becomes the concept of the competition. The game is interpreted in two ways: first, as space/time practice able to generate new imaginative principles in a child; secondly, as an alternative to the opposing norms of the adjacent city.

SCHEDULE

Deadline for applicants: BY NOVEMBER 1, 2018, 5:00 P.M. – Milan time;
Evaluation by the judging committee: BEFORE DECEMBER 1, 2018;
Communication of the winners: BY DECEMBER 7, 2018;
An exhibition, publication: BY MARCH 21, 2019.

AWARDS

Competition will award the following prizes and acknowledgements:

FRIST PRIZE: 3.000,00 €
FIVE SPECIAL MENTIONS BY THE JURY

Before completion, the projects will be published and exhibited at Isola Pepe

FEES

FREE

JURY

The Judging Committee will consist of internationally renowned experts and members of the committees and associations related to Isola Pepe Verde and Isola Art Center.

The Committee who was appointed on the basis of specific skills, also at internationallevel, considering the characteristics of the open call, consists of the following subjects:

MARIETTE SCHILTZ

president, representative of Isola Art Center, Milan

ELISA CRISTIANA CATTANEO

vice president, architect, Milan

AFRICA SUNICO

vice president, president of Isola Pepe Verde, Milan

LUIS CALLEJAS

artist and architect, LCLA Office, Oslo

LORENZO DEGLI ESPOSTI

architect, Tulpenmanie Gallery, Milan

YONA FRIEDMAN

architect, Paris

MATTEO GHIDONI

architect, Salottobuono, director San Rocco magazine, Milan

HOU HANRU

art director MAXXI, Rome

RICHARD INGERSOLL

architectural theoretician, Florence

UGO LA PIETRA

artist and architect, Milan

ENRICO LUNGHI

curator, Luxemburg

ANDREA MASU

artist, Alterazioni Video, Bologna

TOMÁS SARACENO

artist, Berlin

MARCO SCOTINI

curator, head of visual arts department NABA, Milan

SPROUTING MINDS Architecture Competition

SPROUTING MINDS

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