One Prize

With an enormous amount of space dedicated to lawn areas that consume 7 billion gallons of water a day, rising transportation costs detracting from food budgets, and only 2% of food grown locally, this competition urges a transition “from Mowing to Growing”.

The One Prize is a design competition for “creating productive green space in cities”.

It calls all future-forward architects, urban designers, planners, engineers, scientists, artists, students and individuals of all backgrounds to respond with solutions to these questions and reinvent the American garden:

• How can we break the American love-affair with the suburban lawn?

• Can green houses be incorporated in skyscrapers?

• What are the urban design strategies for food production in cities?

• Can food grow on rooftops, parking lots, building facades?

• What is required to remove foreclosure signs on lawns and convert them to gardens?

CEOs for Cities' own Carol Coletta is one of the experts that will act as jury for this competition.

More on the competition here.

  

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