Lausanne Jardins 24

Competition
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Competition

Invitation

We are pleased to invite you to the Opening of the exhibition of the 2024 edition of Lausanne Jardins, from 2pm at the Greenhouses of the City of Lausanne. The Awards ceremony for the international competition will be attended by Lausanne's City officials and the winners, and will be followed by a cocktail.

On this occasion, the projects of the internal competition of the Service des parcs et domaines as well as the work of the students of the Landscape Architecture Department of the Geneva University of Landscape, Engineering and Architecture (HEPIA) and of the Institute of Architecture of the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology (EPFL) will be exhibited.

Exhibition from Monday 3 to Saturday 15 April

Av. du Chablais 46, 1007 Lausanne
(follow the signs to the greenhouses)

Opening hours

Mon-Fri
9h-19h
Sat
10h-17h

Sunday, Good Friday and Easter Monday closed.

Call for entries (closed)

As for the previous events, the creation of the works for Lausanne Jardins 2024 is subject to an international competition in order to maintain the level of excellence of the festival and the prestige acquired in the fields of landscape architecture and urban development. The call for applications will be launched on Monday, 3 October 2022. The programme and the description of the competition sites can be downloaded here.

Objectives

Type of competition

The competition is organised in two phases:
A. The pre-selection of candidate teams.
B. The development of the projects by the selected teams. At the end of the competition, the jury will determine which projects will be carried out for Lausanne Jardins.

How to participate?

The competition is open to landscape architects, gardeners, designers, architects, planners and artists from all over the world. The formation of interdisciplinary groups is strongly encouraged. The application, maximum three A4 pages, must include:

Schedule

Phase A
Submission of applications 11 November 2022
Selection of the winning teams 25 November 2022
Phase B
Deadline for questions 6 December 2022
Answers to questions 20 December 2022
Submission of projects 24 February 2023 at 4pm

Mailing addresses

Phase A of the competition (by e-mail)
info@lausannejardins.ch

Phase B of the competition (by post)
Association Jardin Urbain p/a
Service des parcs et domaines
Avenue du Chablais 46
Case postale 80,
CH-1000 Lausanne 23

Concept

In the current context of changes in the urban landscape, Lausanne Jardins 2024 (LJ24) aims to raise public awareness of the issues related to climate change, the collapse of biodiversity and the finiteness of resources, in order to offer innovative solutions.

The event, which is based on a series of contemporary garden art installations, some of which are ephemeral, others of which are intended to be permanent, thus takes on the character of an urban laboratory. The installations on show allow for life-size testing of methods aimed at improving the uses, aesthetics and sustainability of the urban landscape.

By addressing gardens as a strategic and flexible transformation tool, Lausanne Jardins seeks to strengthen the city’s resilience and its capacity to adapt – faculties that are crucial for the future quality of life in an urban environment.
Aerial view of the 2024 location
The 2024 festival will be held for the first time along the banks of Lake Geneva in Lausanne. The course stretches over six kilometres between the two rivers that border the city, from the Vuachère in the east to the Chamberonne in the west.

Over the last few centuries, as a result of natural processes and human activity, the shoreline has progressively encroached upon the lake. Although the shoreline constitutes a landscape and bioclimatic continuum, it nevertheless offers multiple faces depending on its appropriation. Sixty years after Expo 64, this site also represents an opportunity to reflect on the future challenges of a large urban park.

The four sequences that mark out this large urban park raise various issues: ecosystems and ecological infrastructures; the practice of inclusive outdoor sports; the art of live performances accessible to wide audiences; the influence and cohabitation of different types of means of transport in the public space.

With the theme “Between the Water and Us,” LJ24 aims to change the perception of water in the city and bring it back into our everyday view. Water shapes our cities. It is an essential element of urban quality and provides much added value.

By illustrating and changing our relationship with water in the city, LJ24 hopes to highlight this resource hidden under our feet and the many services it provides: not only drinking water but also water as a means of transport, a place of recreation and refreshment, a biotope rich in biodiversity, a source of energy, etc.

The “sponge city” approach illustrates how water can play a key role in the face of climate change, while improving the living environment, urban biodiversity and the wellbeing of inhabitants. This concept also questions the link between the city, its urban rivers and its lake.

About

Lausanne Jardins is a cultural event that combines landscape architecture with reflection on the city. For one summer, the event offers a series of ephemeral gardens scattered over Lausanne, some of which are intended to prefigure the urban and landscape transformations of the city. Some twenty contemporary gardens, the result of an international competition, follow one another along a unique walk, encouraging people to stroll and to (re)discover unusual places. Dedicated to a wide public, the event is free and accessible 24 hours a day for four months, from mid-June to mid-October.

With its ephemeral installations, resulting in particular from an international competition, the work of the universities and the city’s services, Lausanne Jardins is an ideal urban laboratory, which helps test, in real life, projects that seek to improve the quality of use and the aesthetics of the chosen sites. The aim is to address the garden as a tool to transform, enliven and develop the city.

Since the first Lausanne Jardins, the Municipality of Lausanne and Association Jardin Urbain (AJU) have co-organised the festival. By renewing the legacy of the six previous events, in 1997, 2000, 2004, 2009, 2014 and 2019, Lausanne Jardins helps enhance Lausanne’s image, giving it an international reputation in the field of garden art.

The Lausanne Jardins 2024 team

Executive Board

Monique Keller
Curator, architect and journalist
Antoine Vialle
Urban architect, PhD
Julie Imholz
Landscape architect, Paysagestion

Visual identity, cartography, video and website

Notter+Vigne
Graphic designers
Philipp Urech
PhD architect, cartography
Michael Hartwell
Architect and video maker
LundiMardi
Interaction designer, web dev

The SPADOM team
(Department of Parks and Gardens of the City of Lausanne)

Etienne Balestra
Head of Department
Yves Lachavanne
Head of the Public Spaces Design Office (BEEP)
Rémy Poisot
Landscape architect, project manager

Technical office for the implementation phase TBD

The association

Association Jardin Urbain (AJU) was established in 1996 with a view to launching the first Lausanne Jardins in 1997. Its aims are to promote the art of gardening, to develop interest in urban gardens and, in general, in the relationship between built and planted spaces, and to encourage events on the theme of the garden in the city of Lausanne. Since then, AJU has worked towards and supported all editions of Lausanne Jardins.

Become member

Being a member of AJU means supporting the association with an annual fee of CHF 50, but also having the possibility to participate in the general assemblies that accompany the work of the committee and the steering team of Lausanne Jardins.

To become a member of AJU: Just write to us with your name and surname at info@lausannejardins.ch Bank details: IBAN CH39 0900 0000 8746 1488 2, Association Jardin Urbain, Lausanne

E-mail registration
Download the statutes (PDF)

Members of the Committee

Agathe Caviale
President
Landscape architect, Interval agency
Natacha Litzistorf
Vice-president
Director LEA, City of Lausanne
Etienne Balestra
Head of the Department of Parks and Gardens, City of Lausanne Nicole Christe
Head of the Architecture Department, City of Lausanne
Alexis Georgacopoulos
Director of ECAL
Jean-Yves Le Baron
Landscape architect, L’Atelier du Paysage
Martial Messeiller
Member of the TL Management
Nathalie Noverraz
General Secretary Prométerre
Steeve Pasche
Director Lausanne Tourisme
Olivier Rambert
Head of Development French-speaking Switzerland, Mobimo
Christiane von Roten
Architect, PONT12
Christina Zoumboulakis
Architect, farra zoumboulakis & associés

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