In anticipation of the fourth edition of the Radicepura Garden Festival, which will take place next semester from May to November 2023, now is the time for ideas. Landscape architects, agronomists, garden designers, botanists, nurserymen, urban planners, engineers, artists, students, curators and anyone with the skills to design and create a garden are invited to participate in the CALLforIDEAS!
The theme of the fourth edition of the Festival is The Garden of Plants, as identified by the artistic director of the Festival, Antonio Perazzi. Therefore, in the projects submitted, the gardens should be a celebration of biodiversity, the natural landscape and the Mediterranean man-made landscape. The gardens will have to be innovative, attractive, usable, able to capture the attention of visitors, and resistant to the climatic and environmental changes of the 6-month duration of the Festival, reducing maintenance requirements to a minimum. At the end of the edition, the garden that has evolved best over the six months of the event will receive the Gardenia Prize, a special award from the garden magazine.
The international competition is open to those under 36 - individual professionals or teams of emerging architects - to create 6 gardens that address the proposed theme. There is also 1 garden reserved for the category over 36. The gardens will be created at Radicepura, the botanical park in the province of Catania, in Giarre - between Mount Etna and the Ionian Sea - in close communication with other gardens designed by internationally renowned landscape designers and works of art. The garden designers will have the opportunity to express their creativity, making use of the most original plants cultivated in the Piante Faro nursery, which has more than 3000 different species of tropical, succulent, aromatic, Mediterranean and citrus plants.
Participation in the competition is free of charge and the 7 projects selected by the jury will have a budget of 10,000 euro between the supply of plants and materials.
To participate in the CALLforIDEAS you have until 14 November 2022.
The theme of the fourth edition of the Festival is The Garden of Plants, as identified by the artistic director of the Festival, Antonio Perazzi. Therefore, in the projects submitted, the gardens should be a celebration of biodiversity, the natural landscape and the Mediterranean man-made landscape. The gardens will have to be innovative, attractive, usable, able to capture the attention of visitors, and resistant to the climatic and environmental changes of the 6-month duration of the Festival, reducing maintenance requirements to a minimum. At the end of the edition, the garden that has evolved best over the six months of the event will receive the Gardenia Prize, a special award from the garden magazine.
The international competition is open to those under 36 - individual professionals or teams of emerging architects - to create 6 gardens that address the proposed theme. There is also 1 garden reserved for the category over 36. The gardens will be created at Radicepura, the botanical park in the province of Catania, in Giarre - between Mount Etna and the Ionian Sea - in close communication with other gardens designed by internationally renowned landscape designers and works of art. The garden designers will have the opportunity to express their creativity, making use of the most original plants cultivated in the Piante Faro nursery, which has more than 3000 different species of tropical, succulent, aromatic, Mediterranean and citrus plants.
Participation in the competition is free of charge and the 7 projects selected by the jury will have a budget of 10,000 euro between the supply of plants and materials.
To participate in the CALLforIDEAS you have until 14 November 2022.
