The future of Paljassaare Peninsula in Tallinn

The deadline for entries in the one-stage international competition is 25th of April 2017. Designs must balance the needs of development and conservation as well as wastewater treatment and protected ornithological areas. The participants are asked to propose design solutions with a clear interest in experimentation and engagement with emergent digital design or biotechnologies.

The the competition jury is composed by Rachel Armstrong (Newcastle University), Liam Young (SCI-Arc), Claudia Pasquero (Bartlett UCL / ecoLogicStudio), Veronika Valk (Estonian Academy of Arts) and Toomas Tammis (Estonian Academy of Arts).

“The provocation to re-articulate a third millennial relationship between human and non-human, landscape and building and the character of the natural environment, sets the scene for a biourbanism with the potential to reinvent the way we live and inhabit our world. Potentially we may even be able to imagine how metropolitan developments may augment the liveliness of our living spaces, rather than depleting them,” said Rachel Armstrong from Newcastle University, Vision Competition Jury member.

" Proposals should be in the form of short videos or simulation frames where spatial articulation is a clear function of time. All kinds of simulation methods are welcome from the most abstract digital computation to analogue material experiments. A specific set of data is provided upon registration and participants are invited to engage with this information as starting point for their simulations," said Claudia Pasquero, head curator of TAB 2017 and member of the Vision Competition jury.

The winners will be announced by the end of May 2017 and will be invited to take part in the Curator Exhibition and will as well as to the Symposium in September 2017. All submitted projects will be exhibited as part of TAB 2017 Bio-Tallinn. The first prize is EUR 4,000, the second is EUR 2,000 and the third EUR 1,000. There will also be five honorable mentions.