
Winners of the National Exhibition of Migrating Landscapes have been announced! This nation-wide, open ideas competition is the main process for creating Canada’s official entry to the 2012 Venice Biennale in Architecture, entitled Migrating Landscapes. Themed around migration and cultural identity, entrants comprised of young Canadian architects and designers, ages 45 and under, where invited to reflect on their migration experiences and cultural memories, and design dwellings onto a new landscape that would be showcased through a series of seven regional exhibitions across the country. Together with the Winnipeg-based Migrating Landscapes Organizer (MLO), the jury has selected 18 winners out of 26 finalists to represent ‘Team Canada”. Continue after the break to review the winning competitors.
184 / BC / D’Arcy Jones, Amanda Kemeny, Daan Murray, Melani Pigat
Project Description: A childhood migration from an established neighborhood to a new house in an unsettled subdivision exposed the author to the frontier of an unfinished basement. Embracing the banal, this entry celebrates commonplace construction methods that typify the Canadian building culture. Everyday materials become the ingredients of fantastic new spaces that re-think how a typical suburban plot of land might be used. Construction itself becomes synonymous with settlement and habitation: digging, cutting, layering, pouring, trenching and joining. Critical of the relentless pursuit of the new and the complete, this entry celebrates settling as a work-in-progress that is never finished.
