{"id":443077,"date":"2010-03-18T11:55:55","date_gmt":"2010-03-18T15:55:55","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/dirt.asla.org\/?p=4112"},"modified":"2010-03-18T11:55:55","modified_gmt":"2010-03-18T15:55:55","slug":"land-art-generator-initiative","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/443077","title":{"rendered":"Land Art Generator Initiative"},"content":{"rendered":"

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\nStudied Impact<\/a>, a design firm, has organized the\u00a0Land Art Generator Initiative (LAGI)<\/a>, an international design competition based in the United Arab Emirates (UAE). LAGI\u00a0seeks to\u00a0design and\u00a0build a set of\u00a0large scale public art installations\u00a0that\u00a0can also produce\u00a0clean energy.\u00a0The idea is each land art sculpture\u00a0should contribute enough energy to power thousands of homes back to the grid.\u00a0”The UAE Land Art Generator Initiative (LAGI) is a landmark initiative to bring together artists, architects, scientists, landscape architects, and engineers in a first of its kind collaboration. The goal of the Land Art Generator Initiative is to design and construct a series of land art installations across the UAE that uniquely combine aesthetics with clean energy generation.”<\/p>\n

While large-scale power generators will always be required, local, distributed energy production facilities\u00a0don’t have to look bad. In fact, they can be even be integrated in urban and communities through better design.\u00a0”As the days of the gas or coal fired power plant at the farthest outskirts of the city come to a close, we will find more and more integration of energy production within the fabric of our commercial and residential communities. The need for large scale exurban generation will always be there, but it will be augmented more and more by urban and rural micro-generation and mid-scale generation. We live in a world that puts a high emphasis on design. Micro installations should take care in their designs to integrate with the fabric of the urban community.”<\/p>\n

LAGI\u00a0says design issues will only become more critical as local, distributed energy production takes off.\u00a0\u00a0”What is needed in order to bridge the gap between the larger desire for a renewable future and the community-level negative reactions to the application of the systems required for it is an artistic movement that can set a course towards aesthetic considerations in sustainable infrastructure. Because, after all, sustainability in communities is not only about resources, but it is also about harmony.”<\/p>\n

The LAGI design competition seeks to highlight\u00a0artistic power generation ideas that can also be financially sustainable.\u00a0 The juror includes a mix of local UAE officials,\u00a0including many involved in the proposed Masdar “ecological city,”<\/a>\u00a0and international designer practitioners\u00a0such as Jennifer Leonard from IDEO<\/a> and Jeannette Ingberman from Exit Art<\/a>.\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n

The deadline for submissions is June 4, 2010. Learn more<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Image credit: Robert Ferry & Elizabeth Monoian<\/em><\/p>\n

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Studied Impact, a design firm, has organized the\u00a0Land Art Generator Initiative (LAGI), an international design competition based in the United Arab Emirates (UAE). LAGI\u00a0seeks to\u00a0design and\u00a0build a set of\u00a0large scale public art installations\u00a0that\u00a0can also produce\u00a0clean energy.\u00a0The idea is each land art sculpture\u00a0should contribute enough energy to power thousands of homes back to the grid.\u00a0”The UAE […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-443077","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/443077","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=443077"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/443077\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=443077"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=443077"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=443077"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}