BRACKET [on farming]

Result

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Overview

This is an annual publication documenting issues overlooked yet central to our cultural milieu that have evolved out of the new disciplinary territory at the intersection of architecture, landscape, urbanism and, now, the internet. The first edition is centered around the theme of farming.

Themes
- Farming & Aesthetics: What are the aesthetics of forms of collective effort? In what way are they represented differently to individual acts?
- Farming & Data: How does the collection of information affect our cities, regions and nations? What are methods of data collection? What information infrastructures capitalize on the logic of farming to operate and how do they do that?
- Farming & Energy: How are existing and new models of energy harvested? What new possibilities show promise? How do these models affect our environment and our cities?
- Farming & Lifestyle: How have forms of farming guided our behavior and how we socialize? How does this exchange between individual behaviors become modified by collective influence?
- Farming& Urbanism: How can the city address our impending resource crisis? How are forms of collectivity impacting the contemporary city?

Jury
Fritz Haeg (architecture & design practice Fritz Haeg Studio)
Heather Ring (a landscape architect)
Kate Orff (the founding principal of SCAPE)
Mason White (co-founder of Lateral Architecture)
Michael Speaks (Dean of the College of Design and Professor of Architecture at the University of Kentucky)
Nathalie de Vries (a principal architect and founder of MVRDV

Prize
Publication

Entry Fee
None

Entries
- 1000-2000 word text with images / drawings
- Design images (built or unbuilt) / drawings with 300-500 word description
- Video
- Audio

Timetable
Jury Review: February 2009
Notification and Editing: March 2009
Book release: October 2009

Organizer
[bracket]

Official Website
http://www.brkt.org/