The “Ulrich Wolf” student competition organized by the DGGL and the IGA Berlin 2017 is running this year under the motto “Starter garden – rethinking the allotment garden”.
Gardening together in the city: students and young landscape architects can rethink an urban allotment garden as part of an ideas competition. The joint organizers of the 21st “Ulrich Wolf” competition are the German Society for Garden Art and Landscape Culture (DGGL e.V.) and the International Garden Exhibition Berlin 2017 (IGA Berlin 2017); the ideas competition is sponsored by the Lorenz von Ehren tree nursery. Further cooperation partners are the Landesverband Berlin der Gartenfreunde e.V. and WEKA Holzbau GmbH.
The competition starts on November 2, 2015, and the deadline for entries is March 1, 2016.
The competition is called “Starter garden – rethinking the allotment garden”. We are looking for creative ideas for a 600 square meter allotment garden on the “Am Kienberg” allotment garden site, directly adjacent to the IGA Berlin 2017 site. The aim is to create an innovative design as a garden for several families or users with options for keeping small animals as well as suggestions for a qualified use of plants. The competition is sponsored by the von Ehren Nursery, Hamburg, which is offering a special prize for a creative use of woody plants.
The competition is aimed at students of landscape planning, landscape conservation, landscape architecture or open space planning, as well as professionals in these and similar disciplines who are not older than 35 years.
Three prizes are awarded with prize money totaling 3,500 euros as well as the special prize from the Lorenz von Ehren tree nursery. The award ceremony will take place in spring 2016 as part of an event at the IGA in Berlin-Marzahn, where the submitted works will be exhibited. The winning design is expected to be built as an exhibition contribution until the IGA Berlin 2017 and will then be preserved.
Further information and the document requirements will follow from November 2.
