As part of Volume 37 of Site Magazine and in conjunction with the 2017 celebration of Canada’s sesquicentennial, the editors invite submissions to a juried competition that projects the theme of 'Future Legacy' into Canada’s next 150 years. We are looking for design responses that take a position on the future history of a national project and offer perspectives on the role of legacy as a driving force in the creation of the nation.. What parts of the past drive us into the future? What scales of time influence our view of the passage of history? What do we pick up and what do we leave behind?
The competition asks for a re-evaluation of the Canadian national project across multiple lines. Entries may consider various scales of site and time—addressing patterns of use and place from the scale of the human to the geological scale. Canada has many readings—entrants are encouraged to identify and articulate specific legacies for investigation, considering elements including history, memory, events, marks of passage, physical and ephemeral traces of the past in both the landscape and built environments, recurring themes, heritage, identifying terms, definitions of belonging, and sites of conflict and contestation. Entries may celebrate, critique, challenge, and reinvent those legacies through a design proposition for Canada’s future legacy.
