DEADLINE EXTENDED! It’s now due Monday, October 31 at 5pm
The City of Boston invites landscape architects (and everyone!) to submit proposals to the 2022 Public Space Invitational.
from the project brief:
Experiments for a Green New Deal Neighborhood
Since 2014, the Mayor’s Office of New Urban Mechanics has crowdsourced ideas to make Boston’s public spaces more delightful, intuitive, and beautiful through the Public Space Invitational, our annual civic design competition. This year, we are seeking proposals that use any form of design to help us answer foundational questions on the implementation of the Green New Deal in Boston, namely questions focused on the expansion of green infrastructure, food justice, and climate resilience.
This Year's Challenge
In Mayor Michelle Wu’s Planning for a Boston Green New Deal and Just Recovery, she asks us to “imagine the City of Boston leading the way on climate justice.” Addressing climate change requires bold, systemic changes to City policies in decarbonization, clean energy financing, heat abatement, stormwater mitigation, sustainable transportation expansion, and a host of other areas.
Many components of the Green New Deal are long-term goals. Many of these goals fall under the umbrella of improving and expanding green infrastructure and harnessing nature as an infrastructure system. Before we reach those goals, there are a series of questions we must answer through experimentation.
Our central questions are the following:
How can we introduce Bostonians of all ages to green infrastructure in playful, tangible ways that spark curiosity?
How do we foster excitement about a green future instead of wallowing in dread about the consequences of climate change?
How can we creatively activate untapped spaces so that every inch of public space is contributing to climate resilience rather than squandering potential?