The Land Art Generator engages the public in the co-design of our clean energy future, bringing together the disciplines of public art, urban planning, creative placemaking, and renewable energy.
We provide context-specific and culturally-relevant design solutions for distributed clean energy that reflect the needs of local communities through design competitions, direct commissions, calls for proposals, Solar Mural artworks, and participatory co-design projects for people of all ages.
Learn more about our current open call global design competition — LAGI 2025 Fiji.
Plane of Water by Zsuzsa Péter incorporates organic photovoltaic (OPV) solar to generate 40 MWh each year. The artwork provides additional social co-benefits including shaded public space, water harvesting, and urban gardens. A shortlisted entry to the Land Art Generator Initiative 2022 (LAGI 2022) design competition for Mannheim in partnership with BUGA 23.
WindNest
WindNest by Trevor Lee incorporates compact acceleration wind turbines and thin film solar to generate an annual capacity of 30 MWh. The submission to the Land Art Generator Initiative 2010 design competition for Abu Dhabi (LAGI 2010) was re-imagined and constructed full-scale for SEE MONSTER, a part of the UNBOXED UK Festival in 2022.
MEAnder by Ryan Henel and Craig Sponholtz is the chosen design from the LAGI-MEA invited design competition for the Modern Elder Academy’s regenerative ranch, Saddleback, south of Santa Fe, New Mexico. Images courtesy of the artist team (rendering by Ryan Bromberg). MEAnder is in development.
Partners and supporters have included Fiji Arts Council, Burning Man Project, Royal Commission for AlUla, City of New York, NYC Department of Parks and Recreation, City of Copenhagen, 24th World Energy Congress, European Union Commission on Climate Action, Zayed University, City of Santa Monica, J.M. Kaplan Fund, Masdar Abu Dhabi, National Endowment for the Arts, Capital Region of Denmark, Danish Design Centre, the City of Glasgow, the State of Victoria (Australia), Carbon Arts, Creative Carbon Scotland, Climarte, Arizona State University, the Village of Marou Fiji, the German Federal Garden Show, and many more. The LAGI archives are collected by the Nevada Museum of Art, Center for Art + Environment.