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Homegrown National Park Design Challenge Competition brief Credit: Evan Holt Workshop Architecture and the David Suzuki and landscape architects. We will also pursue Foundation are excited to launch the Homegrown permissions and funding to build a selection of National Park Design Challenge. Architects, the ideas as demonstration projects within the landscape architects, designers, planners, artists Homegrown National Park for the 2014 season. and community members are invited to submit their ideas for low-cost, easy-to-implement About the Homegrown National Park landscape design solutions for front yards, Project backyards, balconies, schoolyards and laneways The David Suzuki Foundation launched the that help to increase biodiversity and conserve Homegrown National Park Project in spring, 2013. water and energy. The project’s purpose is to create a crowdsourced This open competition aims to gather a range of green corridor in the City of Toronto, along ideas that can provide inspiration and practical the former path of Garrison Creek. Key to the information for homeowners and property project’s success is the recruitment and training managers in the Homegrown National Park of Homegrown Park Rangers—volunteers that boundary and beyond and generate awareness live, work or play within the Homegrown National about the importance of making sustainable Park. Working with 14 partner groups, more improvements to our urban landscape—one than a dozen neighbourhood organizations and property at a time. hundreds of local residents, the 21 Homegrown Park Rangers began to enhance, restore and grow The best ideas will be exhibited at the Urbanspace more green space along the corridor, planting Gallery in July 2014 and during Homegrown more than 1,000 native flowers, shrubs and trees National Park project events from May to October in yards, alleys, balconies, schools, parks and 2014. The exhibition will include a series of invited institutions in 2013. In 2014, the project expanded submissions from prominent local architects to five city wards (Wards 17-21), including the
recruitment and training of an additional two • Reduce heat island effect dozen Homegrown Park Rangers. • Increase biodiversity and improve habitat for The Homegrown National Park Project connects bees, birds and butterflies residents to nature in their neighbourhoods and • Increase the amount and type of native plant injects much-needed colour into the city’s grey species and reduce invasive species palette. But it’s about more than just beautifying the city, or even making space for birds, bees and butterflies. It changes the way people connect with nature and the city. What is the Challenge? Competition objectives The Homegrown National Park Design Challenge will raise awareness about the importance of making improvements to our urban landscape, one property at a time, among Toronto homeowners and property managers. Recent severe storms and flooding, as well as droughts and other severe weather events, demonstrate that individuals need to conserve water and energy, and assist in increasing passive stormwater management in cities across Canada. Competition organizers Fostering biodiversity and increasing native Workshop Architecture Inc. plants will help people in cities connect to their natural surroundings and address the problem of Workshop Architecture has extensive declining bee, bird and butterfly populations. experience designing community buildings and public spaces and engages people This project is an opportunity for designers to with the design of architecture and public show homeowners and property managers space through creative installations, simple and effective solutions that can improve competitions, events and education the landscape along the Homegrown National programs. workshoparchitecture.ca Park corridor, and provide one or more of these benefits: David Suzuki Foundation The David Suzuki Foundation collaborates • Improve local air and water quality with Canadians to conserve our • Increase natural stormwater management environment and find solutions that will create a sustainable Canada through • Increase carbon absorption and storage science-based research, education and policy work. davidsuzuki.org • Reduce water and energy use
Competition guidelines We invite competitors to submit ideas for low-cost, easy-to-implement interventions or landscape design solutions that increase biodiversity and conserve water and energy within the Homegrown National Park (see map at http://ow.ly/tgIAO) in: • Residential front and backyards • Lanes and alleyways • Schoolyards and daycare play spaces • Apartment/condo balconies and landscaping We want competitors to create a design to fit a particular location, but that is easy to replicate in similar spaces. Entering with, or in consultation with, the site owners and/or stakeholders is encouraged. If you have a site in mind and need assistance contacting the owner/stakeholders, email info@workshoparchitecture.ca and we will let you know if we can help make the contact. By entering the Homegrown National Park Design Challenge you acknowledge having read and agreed to all the terms and conditions stated herein and you agree to indemnify and hold harmless the competition organizers, their sponsors, partners, officers, agents and employees from and against any and all claims. Selection criteria The jury will use these criteria to select winners: • Proposal design innovation in response to competition objectives and guidelines • Proposal responsiveness to site, context and stakeholders/users • Quality and clarity of presentation materials
out in these instructions. Failure to do so will lead Competition details to immediate elimination from the process. Awards Only one entry per individual or team member. The jury will award CAD $500 in prizes for the competition ($300 first prize, two runner-up prizes Ownership and copyright of $100 each). All materials submitted to the competition become the property of Workshop Architecture Schedule Inc. and will not be returned. Workshop Competition opens March 31, 2014 Architecture Inc. and the David Suzuki Foundation retain worldwide rights to publish and exhibit all Questions deadline April 24, 2014 entries (see “Exhibition and publication” below). Each competitor will retain full copyright of all Submissions due May 26, 2014 their materials unless otherwise assigned. Each Winners announced June 2014 team retains the right to publish and exhibit their own entry. Exhibition opens July 2014 Exhibition and publication Questions Workshop Architecture Inc. intends to exhibit Please forward all questions regarding the a selection of competition entries in a number competition to info@workshoparchitecture.ca by of venues which may include: online, in print, April 24, 2014. in a gallery and outdoors in the Homegrown National Park. In any exhibition, publication, or website, we will make every effort to properly Deadline credit the appropriate competitors. Since All submissions must be received by email by Workshop Architecture Inc. retains ownership 4:00 p.m. Eastern Standard Time on May 26, of all competition materials (see “Ownership 2014, or be disqualified. PLEASE NOTE: Workshop and copyright” above), we reserve the right to Architecture Inc. will not take responsibility for utilize them in any publication or promotional email problems or other technical issues. endeavour in perpetuity and without compensation to the entrants. Eligibility The competition is open to anyone, but the firms, Submission requirements partners, and professional associates of the jurors Please provide the following: and the competition organizers are enjoined from participating. If it is determined that a competitor 1. One 24” x 36” presentation board in landscape is in any material way related to a juror or to a format to describe your proposal. Please provide competition organizer, that competitor’s project this as one high-resolution PDF file, minimum 150 will be disqualified. dpi. Everyone involved with this competition must comply with the conditions and procedures laid
The boards can include any of the following: a) Conceptual statement under 200 words b) Plans, sections, elevations, sketches, 3D renderings and/or photographs c) No marks identifying the entrants shall appear on the presentation boards. PLEASE NOTE: We may print the boards to 11x17 for the jury session, so please ensure they are legible at this size. 2. Complete, print, sign and scan the registration form as a PDF document and send it in the same email with the competition submission, but as a separate file. Send entries to: info@workshoparchitecture.ca Any entries that are larger than 4MB, please send using Wetransfer.com PLEASE ENSURE THAT YOU HAVE FOLLOWED THE INSTRUCTIONS FOR SUBMISSION REQUIREMENTS ABOVE. SUBMISSIONS THAT DO NOT INCLUDE ALL MATERIALS REQUESTED AND IN THE FORMAT OUTLINED MAY BE DISQUALIFIED. Credit: Jode Roberts
HOMEGROWN NATIONAL PARK DESIGN CHALLENGE REGISTRATION FORM Please fill in the details on the form below. Sign the registration form and scan a copy to be submitted as a pdf file by email along with your competition entry before the competition deadline. Name of main contact: Name of company/organization(s) (if applicable): Email: Telephone: Address: City: Country: Team members (if applicable): Student (Y/N): In signing this registration form and submitting an entry to the Homegrown National Park Design Challenge you agree to all the terms and conditions as outlined in the Homegrown National Park Design Challenge competition brief at: www.davidsuzuki.org/homegrownchallenge MAIN CONTACT SIGNATURE: Date:
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