LAGI 2020 Fly Ranch Global Regenerative Design Challenge Announces Top Proposals
Burning Man Project and the Land Art Generator Initiative collaborated to create the LAGI 2020 Fly Ranch design challenge, inviting innovators and creatives to propose regenerative projects for Fly Ranch, an off-grid 3,800-acre ranch in the Great Basin. Teams were asked to integrate sustainable systems for energy, water, food, shelter, and waste management into works of art in the landscape. The objective is to build the foundational infrastructure for Fly Ranch, support Burning Man Project’s 2030 sustainability goals, engage a global audience to work together towards systemic transformation, and serve as an inspiration for the developing field of regenerative design.When selecting the top proposals, the design competition jury invited members of the local community for their feedback. The design competition shared, "leaders from local Indigenous communities and experts in the fields of art, science, sociology, architecture, landscape architecture, design, engineering, education, environmental conservation, and the circular economy."Selected design teams will receive honorarium grants to construct on-site prototype installations of functional use. In October, a hardcover publication documenting the project will be available along with Regenerate! Dream, Design, Deploy, a cooperative resource management board game designed specifically around the themes of LAGI 2020 Fly Ranch. LAGI's founding co-directors Elizabeth Monoian and Robert Ferry share, "As we implement climate solutions, we should recognize that technology does not live in a vacuum. It is born from human culture and it thrives when we care for it. There is an inherent beauty in natural systems that reflects the steady-state of their balance, where the life cycles of living things are in harmony with the energy and resources that naturally flow through them—where nothing is wasted and all that is required to thrive comes from the sun, the wind, and the weather. Could it be that when we are capable of designing such systems we will find inherent beauty emerging from them as well Fly Ranch provides the perfect context in which to begin to answer this question by experimenting with new systems for human thriving—to tackle the hard problem of net-zero sustainable infrastructure with circular design thinking." Below are the top design proposals voted by the jury. Read the full post on Bustler
Burning Man Project and the Land Art Generator Initiative collaborated to create the LAGI 2020 Fly Ranch design challenge, inviting innovators and creatives to propose regenerative projects for Fly Ranch, an off-grid 3,800-acre ranch in the Great Basin. Teams were asked to integrate sustainable systems for energy, water, food, shelter, and waste management into works of art in the landscape. The objective is to build the foundational infrastructure for Fly Ranch, support Burning Man Project’s 2030 sustainability goals, engage a global audience to work together towards systemic transformation, and serve as an inspiration for the developing field of regenerative design.
When selecting the top proposals, the design competition jury invited members of the local community for their feedback. The design competition shared, "leaders from local Indigenous communities and experts in the fields of art, science, sociology, architecture, landscape architecture, design, engineering, education, environmental conservation, and the circular economy."
Selected design teams will receive honorarium grants to construct on-site prototype installations of functional use. In October, a hardcover publication documenting the project will be available along with Regenerate! Dream, Design, Deploy, a cooperative resource management board game designed specifically around the themes of LAGI 2020 Fly Ranch.
LAGI's founding co-directors Elizabeth Monoian and Robert Ferry share, "As we implement climate solutions, we should recognize that technology does not live in a vacuum. It is born from human culture and it thrives when we care for it. There is an inherent beauty in natural systems that reflects the steady-state of their balance, where the life cycles of living things are in harmony with the energy and resources that naturally flow through them—where nothing is wasted and all that is required to thrive comes from the sun, the wind, and the weather. Could it be that when we are capable of designing such systems we will find inherent beauty emerging from them as well Fly Ranch provides the perfect context in which to begin to answer this question by experimenting with new systems for human thriving—to tackle the hard problem of net-zero sustainable infrastructure with circular design thinking."
Below are the top design proposals voted by the jury. Read the full post on Bustler
