Join us this Saturday as we switch on the lights of the newly opened Forest Lawn Lift Station.

Saturday, Sept. 26th, 2015
Forest Lawn Lift Station (1999 26 St. S.E.)
7 – 8:30 p.m.

The Forest Lawn lift station is a Watershed+ initiative integrating artists in the design team for a new lift station from the beginning.

Clad in perforated metal, the modest exterior of the station features a map of LED bar lights, an exact representation to scale of the community’s pipes connected to the station. Responding to live data, the lights change colour revealing the wastewater flow variations as it makes its way to the Bonnybrook Wastewater Treatment Plant.

Photo Angus MacKenzie

This innovative collaboration between artists, architects and engineers resulted in a lift station that not only features state-of-the-art technology, which provides increased sanitary capacity to northeast Calgary, but also integrates creativity in the rethinking of how infrastructure can become integral and thoughtfully designed elements of our urban realm, drawing attention to the role and complexity of our hidden underground systems.

Artists: Sans façon
Engineers: Associated Engineering
Architect: Marshall Tittemore Architects
Lighting consultant: Nemalux LED lighting

More information here

“Calgary’s concerned citizens, artists, designers, and public officials collaborate to invite humane and environmentally sound ideas to fix the city’s Lost Spaces.”

After the success of the Lost Spaces competition, we are delighted to share that it has been written about in the July-August edition of Metropolis Magazine. To read the article click here.

To read more about the competition please go to d.talks website.

“Design Talks Institute, in partnership with WATERSHED+ and the City of Calgary, developed the Lost Spaces Ideas Competition.

The inaugural Lost Spaces Ideas Competition saw 290 submissions from 40 countries imagine the potential for Calgary’s lost spaces. Creating an inspiring, healthy and green city is often grown out of small actions and a multidisciplinary collaborative approach.”

An article on Broken City Lab’s project was recently published in the Calgary Herald’s Swerve.

To read the article click here

“VARYING PROXIMITIES” was a result of the WATERSHED+ Artist Residency Program, you can still call the Bow River hotline and see the signs along the river pathway.

For more information about VARYING PROXIMITIES please see www.asktheriver.info

A ‘lost space’ is any space that remains underutilized within our urban environment. They might be leftover pieces, a ghost of the planning past. Lost spaces are part of the public realm, rarely designed to function with both social and environmental benefit to the city.

Dates:
January 5th, 2015 – Registration opens
March 20th, 2015 – Registration and questions deadline
March 30th, 2015 – Submission due (23:59 MDT)
April 29th, 2015 – Winners announced

The Jury
Susan Szenasy, Editor in Chief, Metropolis Magazine
Shane Coen, Principal, Coen + Partners Landscape Architecture
Pierre Thibault, Principal, Atelier Pierre Thibault Architecture
Shauna Thompson, Curator, The Esker Foundation
Diana Sherlock, Independent Curator

more info: http://www.dtalks.org/call-for-ideas
to register: hello@dtalks.org

Karin Olafson has written a nice article in Avenue Magazine about WATERSHED+ Artist in Residence, Broken City Lab and their work VARYING PROXIMITIES.

To read the article click here

For more information about VARYING PROXIMITIES please see www.asktheriver.info