Artworks and projects to live spaces in ecological living integration.
The new ecosystem in its Human-House-Environment equilibrium: promote the living culture’s declination

The Ecohousing Art Manifesto
Indissoluble balances which elevate environmental sustainability and integration between nature and built up environments, a psycho-physical wellbeing and an increase in positive values: man is at home in the world and the world finds its home in mankind.
Space is both individual and social: it is the balance of mankind. Living spaces in ecological living integration means “being at home”.
Space is vital: it goes beyond the physical man-made place. It is a fundamental dimension of human beings in their individuality and social integrations.
Space is the world:natural energetic, integrated, unambiguous, universal
Space is man: a breathing organism which consumes and regenerates
Space is the eighth skin: it is a transpiring membrane which covers, protects, represents, limits and gathers
Space is a bundle of feelings: creatures and objects live together in order to reach a balance which is both physical and spiritual
Space is beauty: we need to fight for beauty because one cannot live without beauty
Space is an ensemble of structural elements which are functional, intellectual, and creative and which are intertwined with one another. When one of these elements changes, there is a change in the relationship between the elements and therefore there is an alteration in the system as a whole
Living means questioning ourselves with regards to our existence and to our actions inside the material structures which constitute the world of mankind.

The “visions” of the protagonists of Ecohousing Art
Artists: they are called upon to design and create by means of any technique and material. These artworks must express something; they must sublime the values of the Ecohousing Art manifesto. The artist goes beyond the denouncing the status quo: the artist is a scientist, a cultural and philosophical operator. He creates artworks by means of openness, contaminations and exchanges for public or private spaces and environments.



Designers: they are called upon to design and create by means of any technique and material. Designers must design internal or external environments or instruments which express and sublimate the values of the Ecohousing manifesto. A designer is a scientist, a cultural and philosophical operator. He creates works by means of openness, contaminations and exchanges for public or private spaces and environments.

Architects and Engineers: they are called upon to design and create* housing structures, buildings, neighborhoods, urban aggregates, green areas, infrastructures which express and sublimate the values of the EcoHousing manifesto. Architect and Engineers are scientists, cultural and philosophical operators. They create works by means of openness, contaminations and exchanges for public or private spaces and environments.
(*) From the creation of a model which is applicable to homogeneous morphologies to the analysis of a specific territorial reality, to the requalification of an existing structure (residential, commercial, industrial or public)


PARTICIPANTS
SECTIONS - ECOHOUSING ART CONTEST

Junior Category:
Art: Art school students who have celebrated their 18th birthday before October 31st 2009. Artists between 18 and 30 years of age (celebrated before October 31st 2009)
Design: students enrolled in the following university level courses: Architecture, Art Academies, applied art institutes. Designers between 18 and 30 years of age (celebrated before October 31st 2009)
Design: students enrolled in the following university level courses: Architecture, Art Academies, applied art institutes. Designers between 18 and 30 years of age (celebrated before October 31st 2009)
Architecture, Engineering: students enrolled in university level courses in architecture or engineering. Newly graduated architects and engineers who aren’t registered in the Engineer Register or in the Architect Register. Students enrolled in technical and art institutes who have celebrated their 18th birthday before October 31st 2009 or holders of simple high school diplomas with no age limitation.

Senior category:
Art:Artists
Design: Architects or professional Designers, companies and Studios.


Architecture – engineering: architects who are registered with the Italian Architect Register or Engineers who are registered with the Italian Engineer register; companies and studios whose legal representative is registered with the Italian architect or engineer register.

 In case of participation in groups or by means of a company or studio, the registration must be made by the legal representative or by a group leader and it must contain the names and the contact information of each person who will contribute to the creation of the project or work.


Warnings for the contest participants
Enrollment and membership in one of the above mentioned entities must be declared in the registration form. Non-fulfillment of these requisites and false declarations will result in the exclusion of the participant from the contest as soon as House Company proves their existence, regardless of which phase of the contest has been reached.


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