Sponsor: Water Sensitive Urban Design (WSUD) Conference
Type of competition: Open, international
Language: English Location: Melbourne, Australlia Eligibility: This is a student competition comprising teams of up to five students each. All team members must be enrolled in a certified undergraduate, graduate or post-graduate program of study from between July and December 2011. Registration Fee: None Timeline: 5 December 2011 – Registration and submission deadline Jury: WSUD Committee
Awards: $10,000 AUD

Design challenge: Students will partner with members of the design profession to submit urban design proposals that clearly articulate water sensitive initiatives within the Maribyrnong Defence Site. This competition seeks to explore how one can create water sensitive spaces with a sense of place. We will do this by learning, developing, and testing the informed, intuitive, and technical languages of design – worked though urban context, architectural typologies, scientific credibility, and experiential relationships.

For more information, go to: http://www.wsud2012.com/highlights.asp?TheCentreForWaterSensitiveCitiesDesignCompetition

This year the prize was awarded for a service package that supports plant breeders in propagating and marketing their novelties, emphasizing that innovation can not only originate from competition but also from a close cooperation of small and medium-sized companies.

Winner in the category „Cooperation/Business Organisation“ is the family-owned biotechnology enterprise Bock Bio Science from Bremen that offers its service package „Bock TC Services“ for the propagation of selected breedings, thus assisting to discover hidden treasures developed by European breeders. The main focus is the fast, cost-efficient, and environmentally friendly propagation of clones using tissue culture.

The highly competitive market for ornamental and crop plants is exposed to constant change and new varieties have to fulfil the demand for superior products at fair market prices.

The process of developing and marketing a new product is elaborate, time-consuming, and poses a multitude of challenges. Many small and medium-sized horticulture companies possess high-quality own breedings and selections that are available in the market only in small quantities as the mother plants can be reproduced slowly by division and the sowing does not produce a sufficient quantity of homogeneous offsprings. It is not uncommon that valuable small populations are destroyed by diseases or pests. Reproducing such plants by tissue culture in large quantities within short time offers those companies new marketing potential and ensures their survivability in an international market that constantly demands for novelties but is at the same time interested in marketable large quantities.

Apart from the specific development of cloning protocols and the exclusive production of young plants, Bock Bio Science offers other services such as the selection of healthy mother plants, phytopathogen diagnostics and elimination, rejuvenation of woody species, and the conservation of valuable varieties.

The company posses its own state-of-the-art laboratories, large growing rooms, a modern LED light system for the development of light protocols as well as well experienced and highly qualified scientific personnel.

The service package furthermore comprises the scientific and technical consulting and the support in the field of property rights (national and international plant breeders’ rights).

The well-respected award was presented to the managing partners of Bock Bio Science, Mr Stephan von Rundstedt and his wife, Mrs Friederike von Rundstedt on the occasion of the German Horticulture Day by the Central Association for Horticulture (ZVG) that took place at the Federal Horticultural Show BUGA 2011 in Koblenz on Friday, the 2^nd of September 2011.

For more informations:

BOCK BIO SCIENCE GMBH

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CALL FOR PROPOSALS 13th international GARDEN Festival Grand-Métis, Québec, Canada. September 13, 2011 – The International Garden Festival is issuing a call for proposals to select designers to create the new contemporary gardens for its 13th edition. The Festival will be held from June 22 to October 7, 2012 at the Reford Gardens, in Grand-Métis, Québec, Canada. This international call for proposals is open to all landscape architects, architects, designers and artists, from Canada and abroad, who are encouraged to form multidisciplinary and/or multinational teams. Deadline: FRIDAY NOVEMBER 11, 2011. For more information, click here.

]]> http://www.thedigitallandscaping.com/blog/?feed=rss2&p=1369 0 http://www.thedigitallandscaping.com/blog/?p=1375 http://www.thedigitallandscaping.com/blog/?p=1375#comments Fri, 30 Sep 2011 01:06:33 +0000 Digital Landscaping http://www.thedigitallandscaping.com/blog/?p=1375 Moving Planet was incredible.

180+ countries. 2000+ events. A single day to move beyond fossil fuels. Check out the video to get a sense for what happened on September 24, and if you’re not already getting 350.org emails, sign up below to get looped into this global movement.

Click here to view the embedded video.

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Proposals for the cloister garden.
Museo Provincial de Lugo – Spain (MPL).

Conditions
Convening of the contest of ideas for the landscape intervention in the convent’s cloister of San Francisco that is now part of the premises of the Museo Provincial de Lugo which belongs to the Diputación de Lugo.
Object of the contest
The Vice-President of the Diputación Provincial de Lugo and the Museum convene the first contest of ideas to restore the landscaping of the original San Francisco convent cloister located in the provincial capital’s urban area.

Background
This contest of ideas arises from the technical domain of MPL to reward those professional proposals that bring innovation to the enclosed space from different creative fields for gardening and landscaping. It is intended to meet a series of contents that were lost with the historical development.
Field of activity, proposal goals, and documentation available
The field of operation is confined to the garden areas of the cloister, divided into four quadrants by flagstone paths that draw a cross in the horizontal section with a well in the center. The cloister is enclosed by the convent’s architecture: open galleries with semicircle arcades supported by columns. The project area is approximately 400 square meters.
Object of the proposal
Proposals should consider the relationship between architecture and garden areas as a whole, contributing to the rehabilitation of an area using artistic ability.
Proposals must be respectful of the integrity of the architecture and artifacts deposited in the cloister.
There is documentation available to participants.

Contest rules
Annex 1
>>>Planimetry

>>>Photographic dossier

>>>Situation plan

Anexo 2
>>>Formulario de inscrición

Annex 2

Registration Form

Contest type
This convention was created as a contest of ideas, a preliminery plan with the intervention of a jury.
The winner, according to the specifications of the rules, will be bestowed with a certified diploma and a prize of 3,000 euros. The contest will also have a maximum of three honorable mentions.
The contest will be declared void if the jury considers that the proposals do not have sufficient quality or for any other reason. The winner as well as the honorable mentions, may be entrusted with the design and implemantation, according to the museological and museographic constraints, as well as the technical and economic feasibility.
Organizing and receiving the proposals
The functions of coordination, dissemination and communication will be manage by the respective departments of the Provincial Museum of Lugo. For more information, contact:
Dpto. de Belas Artes
Museo Provincial de Lugo
Praza de Soidade
27001 Lugo
Tel.             982 242 112      . Fax 982 240 240
belas.artes@museolugo.org
belas.artes1@museolugo.org
The registry office of the Diputaci’on de Lugo will receive all the documentation addressed to Ilmo. Sr. Presidente of the Deputación Provincial de Lugo.
Tel.982 260 000
R/ San Marcos 8 -27001 Lugo
Contestants

The contest is open to adults or teams of specialists in any creative professional field, technical or scientific, related to landscape or contemporary design. Every proposal has to have an appointed director, responsible for all intents and purposes, to act as the representative of the team to the organization of the competition.
Each participant can only be part of a single team, as proprietor or as a collaborator and may only present one proposal.
In order to participate, the contestants must accept the contest rules.
The following can not participate in the contest as owners or members of teams:
-Judges and employees of MPL.
-Members of the organization and competition monitors.
-Those who have a relationship in the first degree or second degree with the prior, be it consanguinity or affinity. Those who are associated or maintain service relationships or professional collaboration with members of the jury or the organizing and monitoring committees.
-Those who are involved in any of the prohibitions on hiring under Article 45 of Law 30/2007 and other regulatory legal proceedings.
May be subject to exclusion:
-The proposals, which the jury finds do not comply with the rules established in this contest or do not have the necessary documentation to complete its assessment and analysis.
-The breaking of, by any means, anonymity and/or publication of the proposals before the jury makes the decision public.
-proposals received after the deadline.
-noncompliance with any of the contest rules.
Deadlines
Registration (Annex 2)
Professionals or teams that want to compete for the contract must complete and
submit the registration form by the deadline, October 15th 2011.
The form is also available to those interested on the web site of the MPL
www.museolugo.org

Presentation of the work
Entries should be hand delivered or received by mail or courier service in the registry of the Diputación de Lugo, who will send them to the First Vice-president and/or MPL.

Documents and materials to present
Graphic and written documentation
Papers will be presented under a subject title, which should appear on all documents so that they will be kept anonymous until the prizes are awarded. The language to be used is Galician, however, entries may also be written in English or Spanish.
All documentation will be submitted in opaque sealed envelopes .
- Envelope A
Report on DIN A-4 that contains:
-Descriptive project logs,
-Estimated budget for the execution of the proposal, detailed in sections,
-Logs and budget must be included in a single document up to 20 pages in length. The proposal index on one page. The documents will be in Arial, font size 12 and 1.25 line spacing.
- Copy of all documents in A4 in envelope B.
- Envelope B
Three panels in format A1 mounted on foam board with the graphic material that is considered necessary to explain the project.
CD labeled with the chosen proposal title to contain the information in the documents of the envelopes A and B, to be used by the contest organizers, with the purpose of communication, dissemination, publication and teachings carried out by the museum. The documents should be in PDF and Word format.
-Envelope or package C (optional)
If deemed appropriate, contestants may provide an entire scaled model or a partial one. The measures of the model should not exceed 100 cm in all its dimensions no exceptions.
-Envelope D

Contestant data
Form filled out with personal data
Curriculum of contestant or all the team members.
In all documents associated with the envelope D the name of the author will appear with the corresponding proposal title to assure the identity of the owner without a doubt.
Custody and return of materials
The MPL assumes ownership of the materials and original documentation of the winner, therefore they will not be returned to the author.
The remaining materials and other submited documentation will not be available to the authors until the completion of the selection process and public exposure. Once the exposition is finished, the authors can personally collect the material and doucmentacion at MPL.
The MPL will obtain custody of the material and documentation that is not claimed by the authors within one month after the completion of public exposition, and may use it freely according to the needs and criteria of the same management.

The authors of the proposals and the owners of the materials submitted in the contest, will give authorization to the MPL and the Diputación de Lugo, to publish and reproduce these materials for the purposes of communication, publication and research.
Anonymity.
In the event that your proposal was not selected you may choose to remain anonymous, so much as the exhibition of the work or its possible publication. This should be specified, explicitly, on the outside of all the envelopes and in each of the documents delivered.
The Museo Provincial de Lugo will take the appropiate measures during the unpacking of the documentation to ensure the anonymity of the proposals.

Jury
Composition
The jury will consist of:
President:
-Vice-President of the Diputación de Lugo and/or Deputy Chief of Culture or a person who they may delegate to.
Committee:
-the Museum of Lugo management
-two technicians from MPL
-an architect
-an artist
-a landscaper
-art historian
-a qualified individual recognized as a prestiguious professional by his/her experience in organizing garden or landscape contests.
Secretary:
The one from the Diputación Provincial de Lugo or a selected delegate.

Resolution of the award and functions
In the second half of October the sealed envelopes will be opened and the jury will make his decision. At this time the date for the awards will be announced coinciding with the public exposition of the runner-ups .
The consession of the award, special mentions, and acredited diplomas of participation for each contestant will be held in a public act between the months of November and December 2011.
Functions of the Jury
The opening of the proposals.
Documentation analysis and admission of the proposals.
Provide reasons for exclusion if a proposal is not selected.
Assessment of the proposals with the option to request aditional advice as deemed necessary.
Strict compliance with the requirement of anonymity.
Procedures for the resolution of the contest.
The choice of the winning project will be done in several rounds of selection being eliminated in the first round projects that do not receive the support of any of the jury members, each of which may approve an unlimited number of projects.
In the second round, each member of the jury may select a maximum of three projects and exclude those who have not obtained the approval of any of its members.
In the third round of selection the project that has the highest number of votes will be declared the winner.
The jury’s decison is final.
The reasons for the decision will be reflected in the minutes of the contest, it could contemplate particular observations of the jury members if it deems appropriate.

Selection Criteria *
Integration, respect and preservation of the monument as Property of Cultural Interest (BIC).
Visual and functional interrelation of the various planned existing uses. Inclusión of functional new content compatible with the environment.
Quality and formal arrangement of the space.
Evaluation of evolutionary aspects of the garden over time.
Assessment of formal and conceptual formulation according to contemporary aesthetics.
Consideration of the constraints of the site, both for environmental or human use.
Evaluate the adequacy of the constructive and formal proposal with the conceptual premises exposed in each of the projects.
Evaluate the quality, clarity and originality of the proposals on the basis and premises of the organizer.
Evaluate the adequacy of the economic preposition of the ideas presented that optimize the relationship between quality/cost.
*The evaluation described in the minutes can be done globally in order to justify the results adequately.

Awards
-First-prize:
€ 3,000 and a Diploma
- Honorable mentions:
Diplomas (up to three according to the considerations of the jury).
The rest of the ideas that do not get a contest prize, runner-ups or special mentions, but were accepted in the competition will receive a certificate of participation.

Property Rights

The authors will have copyright of the materials, documents and papers submitted to the competition.
The authors participating in the contest will give their work to the Museo Provincial de Lugo and the Deputacion de Lugo with the purpose of communication, publication and advertisement of the competition and the cultural activity.
Acording to the property rights of the author, none of the projects can be modified or ceded to another party without prior consent from the author.
The organization of the contest will announce to the participants between which dates they can retrieve the projects that were not awarded.
Advertising
Once the contest is completed and a decision issued, the interested parties will be informed.
All the submitted papers may be published and divulged as part of the contest “The garden of ideas. ”
The projects will be published with the names of the authors unless otherwise stipulated.
Any point not commented on these rules will be solved by the jury.

___BOP_Lugo Web link: These bases were published in the BOP (Official Gazette of the Province of Lugo), No. 106, May 11, 2011>>

The 7VCT will be held at the Nova University of Lisbon on October 11th to 13th, 2011 and is co-hosted by e-Geo, the Centre for Geographical and Regional Planning Studies, Department of Geography and Regional Planning, Nova University of Lisbon, and by the Department of Civil Engineering of the University of Coimbra, with the participation of COST – European Cooperation in Science and Technology, and ACIV – Association for the Development of Civil Engineering.

Although the conference is trilingual, English will be the primary language. We kindly ask the authors to consider producing their presentations using the English language in order to allow every participant to properly understand the work presented, regardless of his/her origin.

For more information, please visit the Congress web:  http://www.7vct.dec.uc.pt/?lang=es ]]> http://www.thedigitallandscaping.com/blog/?feed=rss2&p=1348 0 http://www.thedigitallandscaping.com/blog/?p=1334 http://www.thedigitallandscaping.com/blog/?p=1334#comments Tue, 06 Sep 2011 03:59:46 +0000 Digital Landscaping http://www.thedigitallandscaping.com/blog/?p=1334

AIDS

In order be to eligible for the grants researchers must be from the European Union or Latin American countries, with demonstrable experience, such as doctoral professors, although it is not requisite to be attached to a university.
The monetary value of the grant is 12,000 Euros and the duration is one year.

The applications, accompanied by the required documents, can be submitted until 14:00 on October 3rd, 2011 in person or sent by post to the CDAN address.

• More information 2011 call. PDF
• More information 2011 call (English). PDF

2) The site is a hypothetical site approximately where the Sky Garden at SM North Edsa, Quezon City is located now.

3) The lot area is 5,000 square meters (half a hectare – 50 meter frontage by 100 meters depth).

4) The pavilion can be a free standing pavilion or complex of structures and landscape – using native construction materials on a structural framework of a choice of wood, bamboo, reinforced concrete, steel or any combination of these. There is no budget constraint.

5) The National Pavilion shall contain exhibits of Philippine culture, creativity and industry; as well as venues for performances. The pavilion shall reflect the values, aspirations and achievements of the Philippines and Filipinos, with the goal of inviting visitors and investors along the tag line of: “The Philippines: We Got It All For You!” as an inspiration.

6) The competition shall be open to the following categories:
a) Professional Visionary – UAP architects (must be a full-pledged member from time of participation)
b) Young Professional Visionary – Currently-enrolled students of Architecture, Interior Design or Landscape Architecture and other allied disciplines.
c) The General Public Visionary – No limits to age or nationality.

7) The submission requirements are:
Categories A and B (UAP Members and Students):
a. Two (2) boards showing written concept (minimum 200 but not more than 500 words);
b. Site Plan;
c. Architectural Plans, Elevations, Sections and Perspectives (any number).
The two boards shall be submitted in electronic form (jpeg format approximately 2mb in size) to avid2011@zoho.comCategory C (The General Public):

a. One (1) board or sheet or image with a written brief about the concept (minimum 200 but not more than 500 words attached). The submission shall be made electronically (jpeg format approximately 2mb in size) to avid2011@zoho.com

8- Two (2) winners from each Category will be chosen: a Grand Prize and an Honorable Mention. These will be determined by a panel of judges coming from SM, the Academe, industry profession, show-business industry and from BluPrint/Mega Publishing Group

9) All entries must be original designs. Plagiarized content from existing works shall be automatically disqualified, and participants shall be held responsible for any problems arising as to questions of ownership.

10) Completely filled-out entry forms along with all the requirements must be sent electronically via email to avid2011@zoho.com. Email subject heading must be as follows:
EMAIL SUBJECT: (Category) – (Name of Participant)

Ex: UAP – Juan Dela Cruz
Or: STUDENT – Juan Dela Cruz
Or: PUBLIC – Juan Dela Cruz

11) Deadline for submission of entries is on the 15th of October 2011 at 12:00 (noon). AViD organizers bear no responsibility for entries lost in electronic transmission. Participants must confirm their entries themselves.
12) Winners will be contacted via email and through mobile on the 30th of October. Awards will be held on November 11, 2011 at a venue to be announced.
13) Order of judging for the entries are as follows:
a. A Technical Screening Committee shall check on the conformity of entries to the technical guidelines of the competition before submission to the Judging Board. Entries not conforming to the prescribed guidelines shall be automatically disqualified.
b. The Board of Judges will select five (5) finalists per category, for a total of fifteen (15) finalists, based on the following criteria:
Creativity & Originality 50%
Practicability 30%
Sustainability 20%
TOTAL 100%
c. The finalist boards will be re-evaluated and discussed based on merits under the judging criteria to determine the final winners.
14) Fabulous prizes will be given to finalists and winners. There will also be prizes given to two special awards namely:
a. Juror’s Choice Award – a special entry chosen from all submissions by the panel or a sponsor
b. People’s Choice Award – a special entry chosen either through a social networking medium or through live voting on-site. The winner for the People’s Choice Awards will be taken from the fifteen (15) finalist entries.

15. MEGA Publishing Group reserves the right to withdraw any award and/or cash prize at any time should the participant go against any of the guidelines and mechanics of the competition within the event period.

16. By joining the competition, participants, finalists and winners agree to the inclusion of their names and/or likenesses in BluPrint magazine. All finalists and winners and their entries, may be used free of charge, in any MEGA Publishing Group or SM event, publication, website or announcement on print, broadcast, or any other medium.

17. Prizes not claimed within 60 days after the awards night shall be forfeited in favor of MEGA Publishing Group. All prizes are subject to change and substitution without prior notice, depending on availability.

18. All decisions made by MEGA Publishing Group and SM Inc. with the concurrence of the Board of Judges will be deemed final and irrevocable. No correspondence will be entertained.

19. The owners, management and employees of MEGA Publishing Group and SM Inc., their advertising agencies, spouses and relatives up to the 2nd degree of consanguinity or affinity are disqualified from joining this competition. ]]> http://www.thedigitallandscaping.com/blog/?feed=rss2&p=1321 0 http://www.thedigitallandscaping.com/blog/?p=1308 http://www.thedigitallandscaping.com/blog/?p=1308#comments Tue, 23 Aug 2011 03:33:44 +0000 Digital Landscaping http://www.thedigitallandscaping.com/blog/?p=1308

The World Water Week in Stockholm
August 21-27, 2001

World Water Week is hosted and organised by the Stockholm International Water Institute (SIWI) and takes place each year in Stockholm. The World Water Week has been the annual focal point for the globe’s water issues since 1991.

World Water Week niche and theme

Each year the World Water Week addresses a particular theme to enable a deeper examination of a specific water-related topic. While not all events during the week relate to the overall theme, the workshops driven by the Scientific Programme Committee and many seminars and side events do focus on various aspects of the theme. The themes change each year, but each fits within a broader “niche” that covers several years. The grouping of
themes within a niche is designed to develop a long-term perspective on a broad yet significant water and development issue. It also ensures that each year builds upon the previous years’ outcomes and findings.

The current niche for 2009-2012 is “Responding to Global Changes”, which looks at the potential and necessary responses in water policy, management and development to address pervasive and increasingly impacting global changes. The themes within the current niche are:

• 2009: Accessing Water for the Common Good
• 2010: The Water Quality Challenge
• 2011: Water in an Urbanising World
• 2012: Water and Global Food Security (tentative)

Browse the website: http://www.worldwaterweek.org/ to see the Thematic Scope for 2011 on Water in an Urbanising World, the workshops covering different aspects of the theme, and seminars and side events on many water-related issues. ]]> http://www.thedigitallandscaping.com/blog/?feed=rss2&p=1308 0