New awards program for park design
The National Park Service has launched the Designing the Parks Annual Awards Program, aimed at honoring “the role and significance of public parks in community life and the importance of innovative, responsive, high quality planning and design.” Awards appear to be purely honorary but intended to boost awareness of and support for the NPS’s key principles of park design:
- Reverence for place
- Engagement of all people
- Expansion beyond traditional boundaries
- Advancement of sustainability
- Informed decision making
- An integrated research, planning, design, and review process
The call for submissions is open to built and publicly open parks throughout the world, administered by all levels of government. The guidelines also note that entries “must illustrate innovative and sensitive strategies applied toward resource preservation, energy conservation, sustainability, contextual design and mitigation of climate change.” The deadline for submissions is April 30th.
(via The Dirt)
