What are wicking beds?
Wicking beds are self watering garden beds and are critical to propagation of edible streets and suburbs. Check out the Permaculture Research Institute page on DIY Wicking Beds for more detail on how wicking beds work.
About the Design Competition
Global Food Relief (GFR) invites landscape architects and urban designers to design wicking beds that make use of recyclable waste materials and blends creative flair with clever functionality.
The goal of the competition is to demonstrate that efficient watering of garden plants using wicking beds can be very effective, sustainable, contemporary, and attractive within public domain settings such as street verges & pocket parks.
Criteria include: innovativeness, sustainability, creativeness, functionality, attractiveness, and effectiveness.
Winners will be selected in 3 categories:
1) Best student designer (for Students)
2) Innovative Urban Designer Firm (for Landscape Architects & Urban Design Firms)
3) Most promising young urban designer (Designers below 30 years of age)
To enter the competition,
1) Register your interest in submitting your design for the competition by 1st of September using this form
2) Email your design submissions by 13th Sept 2014 to [email protected]
The goal of the competition is to demonstrate that efficient watering of garden plants using wicking beds can be very effective, sustainable, contemporary, and attractive within public domain settings such as street verges & pocket parks.
Criteria include: innovativeness, sustainability, creativeness, functionality, attractiveness, and effectiveness.
Winners will be selected in 3 categories:
1) Best student designer (for Students)
2) Innovative Urban Designer Firm (for Landscape Architects & Urban Design Firms)
3) Most promising young urban designer (Designers below 30 years of age)
To enter the competition,
1) Register your interest in submitting your design for the competition by 1st of September using this form
2) Email your design submissions by 13th Sept 2014 to [email protected]
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