LAGI 2022 Mannheim - Land Art for BUGA 23

LAGI 2022 Mannheim is open! Submissions will be accepted through September 4, 2022.

The Land Art Generator Initiative (LAGI) and the German Federal Horticulture Show (BUGA 23) invite you to design a unique work of art that uses renewable energy technology to support sustainable human thriving, supplying clean megawatt-hours to the City of Mannheim.

To start, click on the Registration & Submission Portal link above. If you've entered a LAGI design challenge previously, your login information should still work. Otherwise, click on the "Register" link at the top of the page and set up a new account.

Registration is free and provides you with access to all of the documents you'll need to start designing including:

• site boundary drawings
• site photos
•  meteorological data
• and more

There you will also find a link to the page where you will upload your submission and a link to the Q+A document that will be updated as questions are answered. You can send your questions to lagi@landartgenerator.org.

Following the September 4, 2022 deadline, the selection process will take place from

September – December of 2022. LAGI 2022 winners will be notified in December of 2022.

Shortlisted design entries will be featured in an exhibition at BUGA 23, the German Bundesgartenschau that will open in Mannheim in April of 2023 with attendance in the millions.

The First Place submission will receive a cash award of $30,000 USD.

The Second Place submission will receive a cash award of $10,000 USD.

One representative of each winning team will be flown to Mannheim in April 2023 for the award ceremony.

About LAGI 2022 Mannheim

The LAGI 2022 Mannheim design challenge brings together a number of themes and ideas for inspiration.

Just as a garden is a productive landscape for nourishment that also brings us joy and pleasure, how can our productive landscapes for energy also bring joy and pleasure to our communities?

How can renewable energy be integrated in beautiful ways into the city so that it is not some cold and utilitarian technology, but is instead an indispensable accessory, a statement of creative expression that we all desire to experience?

At the same time, how can we make these new technologies accessible to everyone so that the benefits of energy democratization are equitably shared?

LAGI 2022 Mannheim will expand the realm of the possible using existing clean energy technologies to create beautiful, sculptural modules that can plug into the smart post-carbon city.

We are seeking proposals that can exist simultaneously across a variety of scales—variations for a residential context or for a civic space that use modular components or scalable solutions. The goal is to open a window onto a world beyond carbon where quality of life and social equity have been vastly improved as a consequence of the energy transition.