Imagine future cities full of gardens with flower carpets, full of playing children, humming bees and fluttering butterflies. Gardens that help to create a healthy environment, cool cities, collect rainwater and are adapted to the local climate. To make this come true, we invite students to design an exhibition garden for the EXPO 2016 in Antalya, Turkey. We challenge bachelor, master and doctoral students to come forward with innovative and holistic design proposals for gardens that:

• Make use of new flower design
•  Show how gardens and landscapes can be especially attractive, instructive and functional for
•  Show how gardens can contribute to a higher
•  Explain landscape design principles that contribute to greener cities;
•  Present innovative concepts of hard landscaping and planting design that are more sustainable in the Mediterranean

Participants are invited to interpret these themes and develop design solutions that integrate these themes and make them understandable and presentable to the public at large.
The competition is open to all students of landscape architecture, garden design, landscape planning, architecture, and land art. Levels of study may be Bachelor, Master or PhD.

Organisation and jury

The LE:NOTRE Institute organises this competition for the EXPO 2016 in Antalya in collaboration with the landscape architecture department of Akdeniz University.
The entries with the garden designs will be judged by an international jury:
Ir. Jeroen de Vries BNT, landscape architect, board member LE:NOTRE Institute, teacher landscape architecture VHL University of Applied Science, the Netherlands (president)
M. Beatrice Andreucci, Adjunct Professor, Sapienza Universitŕ di Roma, Faculty of Architecture and AIAPP-IFLA Europe Registered Landscape Architect, Italy
Dr. Ece Gökok, Director of Landscape and Gardening Works, representative of the EXPO 2016 organisation
Robert Holden, landscape architect, London
Prof. Dipl.-Ing. Karl H. C. Ludwig, landscape architecture professor, Hochschule für Wirtschaft und Umwelt Nürtingen-Geislingen, Germany
Prof. Dr. Veli Ortaçesme, Akdeniz University, Department of Landscape Architecture, Antalya, Turkey
Assist.Prof.Dr. Tahsin Yilmaz , Akdeniz University, Department of Landscape Architecture, Antalya, Turkey

Awards

There will be three prizes awarded:
– 1st prize: costs for travel and stay 3 days (5 star hotel) for the winner and his/her family (up to 4 persons) to Antalya to attend the prize winning ceremony,  2,000 prize money and construction of the garden in the EXPO, certificate.
– 2nd prize, costs for travel and stay 3 days (5 star hotel) for the prize winner and a friend / family-member (up to 2 persons) to Antalya to attend the prize winning ceremony,  1,000 prize money, and certificate.
– 3rd prize: costs for travel and stay 3 days (five star hotel) for the prize winner (one person) to Antalya to attend the prize winning ceremony,  500 prize money, and certificate.

Important dates

• 5th of November 2015, 6 pm (CET)
  Feedback colloquium for registered participants
• 15th of December 2015
  Latest registration date
• 8th of January 2016, at midnight CET
  Deadline for upload of entries
• January 11th – 12th  2016
  Sessions of the Jury for selection
• April 23rd 2016
  Opening of the EXPO 2016 in Antalya

Competition brief and registration

For more information on the participation in the student competition, please visit the websites: http://bit.ly/LNI-FlowerOfLife and www.le-notre.org
Registration link https://ilias.hfwu.de/goto.php?target=cat_11972&client_id=hfwu