The idea competition “Possible futures of Linnahall” has began!
The short 7-day international vision competition invites everyone interested in urban space to participate and speculate on the future of Tallinn’s mythical amphibian, Linnahall.
The competition task and the base materials can be found on the online platform Tandeems.
The competition work consisting of 1-3 pictures and text must be submitted there by February 26.
The three winners will receive 3×1000€ prizes. Each submitted work is given written feedback by five experts in architecture and urban planning: Owen Hatherley, Karli Luik, Andres Ojari, Siiri Vallner and Kevin Villem.
The three best winning works are selected as a result of an online vote, in which the jury, young people participating in the side program and the audience participate.
The competition is motivated by the controversy about the Tallinn City Hall (Linnahall), which has revived in recent months, and its goal is to collect as many different ideas, future scenarios and potential uses as possible, which would help to expand the imagination of both the citizens and the decision-makers regarding the City Hall.
Delicate interventions, quick speculations and down-to-earth solutions are welcomed. But also constructive utopias that rethink conventional practices, but whose roots are in the present around us, not in an ideal world with unlimited resources.
Who are we expecting to attend?
We welcome both practicing and studying architects, urban planners and heritage conservationists, as well as art scholars, artists, writers and all other creators who care about the fate of Linnahall to participate!
The competition also includes a side program aimed at schoolchildren.
For inspiration: 5 mini-lectures
As an introduction, we asked five architecture practitioners and theorists to give a speech that would inspire others to take part in the idea competition: Multiple Views on Linnahall
They are talking about the spatial potential of Linnahall, architectural parallels, rare constructions, human scale and metaphysical dimension.
The competition is part of the ‘Flock of Ideas’ series of idea competitions. The competition is organised by VARES in cooperation with the Latvian idea competition platform TANDEEMS and the Tallinn Strategic Management Office.
Questions: info@vares.space
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