The International Living Building Institute Announces Living City Design Competition
The International Living Building Institute has launched a global design competition which will award $125,000 in prizes. Select an existing city anywhere in the world and conceptually transform it through photo-realistic three-dimensional modeling and renderings. Submittals due February 1, 2011.
Imagine a truly sustainable future.
Imagine a socially just, culturally rich and ecologically restorative civilization.
Imagine what tomorrow might hold for humanity if we rise to meet the challenges of today.
The International Living Building Institute, in partnership with the National Trust for Historic Preservation, invites the world’s most talented and daring designers, planners, artists and animators to create a new global vision: a breathtaking, compelling model for the future of civilization. Unleash the power of your imagination to envision a city capable of thriving through the centuries – one that will heal the land and prove that the human species can in fact live, in the words of E. O. Wilson, as ‘part and parcel with creation’.
We have inherited and reproduced a built environment based on the catastrophically flawed premise of unlimited resources and infinite room for expansion. Our infrastructure isolates us from the ecosystems we inhabit; what James Howard Kunstler has described as a “Geography of Nowhere” blinds us to the specificity of place.
If we are to respond effectively to the environmental crisis we now face, we must begin by radically reimagining our neighborhoods, towns, villages and cities.
Only when we have clearly envisioned the future we must create, will we have the courage to light “the Possible’s slow fuse”.
The International Living Building Institute has launched a global design competition which will award $125,000 in prizes. Select an existing city anywhere in the world and conceptually transform it through photo-realistic three-dimensional modeling and renderings. Please visit the Living City Design Competition's Web site for complete details and application instructions. Deadline: February 1, 2011.
