{"id":78592,"date":"2025-07-06T13:00:49","date_gmt":"2025-07-06T17:00:49","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/landartgenerator.org\/blagi\/?p=78592"},"modified":"2026-03-10T21:53:58","modified_gmt":"2026-03-11T01:53:58","slug":"lagi-2025-fiji-is-open-for-submissions-through-may-5-2025-200000-in-awards","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/landartgenerator.org\/blagi\/archives\/78592","title":{"rendered":"LAGI 2025 Fiji is Open for Submissions Through May 5, 2025. $200,000 in Awards."},"content":{"rendered":"

\"LAGI<\/a><\/p>\n

The Challenge<\/h4>\n

The residents of Marou Village and the Land Art Generator Initiative (LAGI) invite creative minds worldwide to shape the future of clean energy and water for island coastal communities. LAGI 2025 Fiji<\/a> merges art, sustainability, and community empowerment, offering $200,000 in awards.<\/p>\n

Participants are invited to design a permanent landmark piece of art in the landscape that not only captivates but also provides clean energy and reliable drinking water to Marou Village. Situated on the southeast coast of Naviti Island in the Yasawa Group, the village is home to 67 households. The project aims to ensure a sustainable energy future for this coastal community while supporting tourism and showcasing harmonious coexistence with nature.<\/p>\n

The detailed design brief is live and submissions are due by May 5, 2025. LAGI 2025 Fiji is free to enter and open to all.<\/p>\n

Visit lagi2025fiji.org<\/a> to Learn More and Download the Design Guidelines<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Awards<\/h4>\n

Two winning teams will each be provided with $100,000 USD to advance their design proposal and build a functioning prototype of their idea in Fiji. <\/p>\n

A book published by Hirmer Verlag, exhibitions held in partnership with the Fiji Arts Council, and a program of community engagement events will communicate the innovative outcomes throughout Fiji and around the world, inspiring the public about the beauty and wealth of possibilities of a world beyond carbon while demonstrating creative adaptations to a rapidly shifting climate.<\/p>\n

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Map of Fiji showing the location of Marou Village in the Yasawa archipelago.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

The Urgency<\/h4>\n

Having contributed insignificantly to global greenhouse gas emissions, island nations such as Fiji nevertheless find themselves today on the front lines of climate change. While access to the sun\u2019s energy in Fiji is strong, the implementation of solar power generation presents significant challenges, including aesthetics and land use.<\/p>\n

For a nation where land is a precious (and vanishing) resource, practical design solutions for renewable energy installations that share land with other uses such as cultural destinations, farms, public spaces, and habitats can be designed to increase the potential for a 100% renewable island economy. These new energy system designs can also consider how their aesthetic manifestation can support and enhance the beautiful landscapes that bring millions of people to visit each year from around the world.<\/p>\n

While electricity is a pressing need in Marou Village, also of critical importance is ensuring reliable access to freshwater. As global temperatures rise there is increasing variability and volatility in precipitation patterns. Rainy seasons bring severe flooding while dry seasons are even drier. LAGI 2025 Fiji is therefore seeking innovative solutions that can integrate regenerative energy and water systems.<\/p>\n

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The LAGI 2025 Fiji global design competition site plan, showing the Energy Design site Boundary, Marou Village, the Yasawa School, and surrounding context.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Design Site and Supplementary Materials<\/h4>\n

In collaboration with our project partners—The University of Fiji, Arizona State University, and the Fiji Arts Council—we have provided a suite of supplementary materials that are intended to provide you with everything you will need to arrive at the most creative and practical design solution to meet the needs of the village and Fiji\u2019s national 21st century development goals.<\/p>\n

We have put together a new Field Guide to Regenerative Water Technologies<\/a>, a companion to our Field Guide to Renewable Energy Technologies<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Selection Process<\/h4>\n

The LAGI 2025 Fiji jury is an expert panel from the Pacific Islands, Fiji, and Marou Village, along with global leaders, whose disciplines encompass community energy, policy, art, culture, climate science, adaptation, storytelling, architecture, landscape architecture, and planning. The LAGI 2025 Fiji selection process is entirely anonymous. Winners will be selected on merit through a process that begins with technical review by a team of solar mini-grid experts and concludes with the recommendation of the jury.<\/p>\n