OPEN INTERNATIONAL COMPETITION OF URBAN LANDSCAPE DESIGN "FLOWER JAM"
04.03.2019
The "Flower Jam" – 2019 International Landscape Conference has concluded its work
The "Flower Jam" International Landscape Conference is over. Those were the three incredible days that flew by in one breath. It’s been three days of heated discussions, amazingly interesting speeches and meetings with the most outstanding professionals from Russia, Sweden, Great Britain, Italy and the Netherlands.
02.03.2019
Long awaited results of the Expert council work: here is the list of the finalists of the "Flower Jam" competition 2019
02.03.2019
Already on the first day of the conference it became clear that the event had aroused great interest and got a live feedback from the professional community. In order to take part in the event, visitors came from St. Petersburg and Kazan, Nizhny Novgorod and Samara, Obninsk, London, Stockholm, Nice.
01.03.2019
On March 1, the Expert Council will hold an in-person meeting to finalize the selection of projects for subsequent implementation. The projects had inspired our experts so much that they could not come to a consensus during their internet sessions and they asked for extra time to finish the work with selection. Well, the competition is becoming more and more intriguing.
16.02.2019
Òåìàìè êîíôåðåíöèè ñòàíóò âîïðîñû ñîâðåìåííîãî ãîðîäñêîãî ëàíäøàôòíîãî äèçàéíà è ãëàâíûé ìèðîâîé òðåíä ñàäîâîãî èñêóññòâà – ñàäû è ïàðêè â ïðèðîäíîì ñòèëå: èõ ñîçäàíèå, îñîáåííîñòè ñóùåñòâîâàíèÿ è çíà÷åíèå â óñëîâèÿõ ìåãàïîëèñà.
16.01.2019
The International Landscape Conference "Flower Jam" will be held in Moscow
The International Landscape Conference "Flower Jam" will be held on March 1-3, 2019 in Moscow University Botanical garden. The key speakers of the conference are the world's leading landscape and garden designers, members of the Expert Council of Flower Jam and members of the International Jury of the competition, plant nursery owners, urban planners. Participation is free, but pre-registration is required.
17.12.2018
Due to the large number of people willing to participate in the competition, the Organizing Committee decided to extend the deadline for applications until December 31, 2018, and the deadline for accepting exhibition garden projects is January 20, 2019.
30.11.2018
Three projects of the Open International Competition and Festival of Urban Landscape Design “Flower Jam” -2018 have won the 9th Russian National Award for Landscape Architecture.
16.11.2018
“Flower Jam” - 2019. Moscow Summer Gardens.
More and more applications for participation in the Open International Competition of Urban Landscape Design "Flower Jam – 2019” are being accepted every day. Next summer the competition will be held in Moscow for the third time already.
29.10.2018
The deadline established for submitting applications for the "Flower Jam" – 2019 Competition
We’ll start accepting your applications for participation in professional nominations already in a few days, on November 1. By this date, also the Theme of the next year’s Competition will be announced.
27.09.2018
RESULTS OF THE INTERNATIONAL LANDSCAPE FORUM
On September 2, the International Landscape Forum was held in Zaryadye Park involving the world's leading experts.
09.09.2018
On Tverskaya Square, the Ceremony of awarding the winners of the "Flower Jam" Competition was held in professional and student nominations.
08.09.2018
Awards ceremony for the competition winners
September 8, the winners of the professional and student nominations of the Competition will be officially announced
05.09.2018
The finalists' gardens in the nominations "Small Exhibition Garden" and "Urban Place for Rest"
We have collected for you all the addresses of the finalists in these two categories. Quickly go watch!
The "Flower Jam" Open International Competition of Urban Landscape Design will be held in Moscow In the summer of 2019 for the third time.
This year, the lifespan of the “Flower Jam “exhibition gardens will be extended: they will stay functional not for several weeks only, as in previous years, but for several months, from June to September.
«Permanently Blooming Gardens» is the Concept of the Urban Landscape Design Competition and Festival (which in 2019 will be held traditionally in late August and early September) and the theme for the competition task is “Summer Gardens of Moscow”.
Participants are invited to design competitive gardens based on the fourth dimension - time. Summer Gardens of Moscow will bloom, change colors, volume and appearance, while maintaining decorativeness throughout the summer and creating points of attraction for Moscow inhabitants and tourists.
Accepting applications for the professional competition is already open and will last until December 15, 2018. Deadline for reception of projects is January 15. At the end of February, the Expert Council will meet for discussion of the projects submitted to the competition.
The finals of the Competition and the summing of results will traditionally take place in late August and early September as part of the “Flower Jam” Festival. Also during the Festival all special projects will be implemented and special events will be held: the Amateur Flower Gardening Contest on district venues, events dedicated to the Moscow City Day and others.
Stage 1 - application and selection of finalists
Participants submit applications, which include information about the participant, a portfolio of relevant projects and a sketch of the project’s idea.
The Expert Council selects the finalists of the Competition.
The Organizing Committee of the Competition together with the Expert Council assign locations for the finalists’ projects.
Stage 2 - development of the exhibition gardens implementation documents
The finalists and expert mentors elaborate the projects according to specific location conditions.
Finalists of the competition develop documentation for the subsequent implementation of the projects submitted at the 1st stage.
Stage 3 - implementation of exhibition gardens and selection of the best projects
The public spaces in all the districts of Moscow will be decorated with implemented competition works: gardens, landscape compositions and flower beds which will form places of attraction and rest, green oases for citizens.
The jury evaluates the implemented projects and determines the best by voting. The jury members examine the projects up to three times from June to August and evaluate the decorativeness of each garden at different points of time. The results of the competition and the names of the winners will be announced during the "Flower Jam" Urban Landscape Design Festival in early September.
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Submission of applications for participation in the Competition in professional and student nominations
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Announcement of finalists selected for the Competition (projects implementation)
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Distribution of the finalists’ projects by locations
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Finalization of the finalists' projects along with expert mentors
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Preparations for the projects implementation
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Implementation of the projects
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Special projects implementation
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Jury’s fieldwork and meetings, evaluation of projects and selection of winners
- Festival opening
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International Forum
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Amateur Contests
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Announcement of the Competition results in professional and amateur nominations
Nomination 1 - Professional
«Large Exhibition Garden (200-400 square meters)»
Gardens are implemented in public spaces of Moscow: in the streets, squares, pedestrian areas, boulevards and parks.
Projects create points of attraction for citizens, becoming places of rest.
In addition to the aesthetic function, the projects will also perform an ecological task: they will attract insects to the city center, as it happened during the previous years’ competitions, which helped a lot to maintain ecological balance.
THE PRIZE REWARD
2, 000, 000 RUBLES
Nomination 2 - Professional
«MEDIUM EXHIBITION GARDEN (70-100 SQUARE METERS)»
Gardens are implemented in public spaces of Moscow: in the streets, squares, pedestrian areas, boulevards and parks.
Projects create points of attraction for citizens, becoming places of rest.
In addition to the aesthetic function, the projects will also perform an ecological task: they will attract insects to the city center, as it happened during the previous years’ competitions, which helped a lot to maintain ecological balance.
THE PRIZE REWARD
1, 000, 000 RUBLES
Nomination 3 - Professional
«Small Exhibition Garden (30-50 square meters)»
Gardens are implemented in public spaces of Moscow: in the streets, squares, pedestrian areas, boulevards and parks.
Projects create points of attraction for citizens, becoming places of rest.
In addition to the aesthetic function, the projects will also perform an ecological task: they will attract insects to the city center, as it happened during the previous years’ competitions, which helped a lot to maintain ecological balance.
THE PRIZE REWARD
500, 000 RUBLES
Nomination 4 - Professional
«LANDSCAPE DESIGN FOR SOCIAL AREAS (50-100 SQUARE METERS)»
Projects are not only a place of rest and are not limited to aesthetic and ecological functions, they should be additionally fully functional corresponding to the location (“therapeutic”, sensory gardens, creative playground spaces, etc.).
THE PRIZE REWARD
1, 000, 000 RUBLES
Nomination 5 - Student
«THE COMPETITION OF STUDENT PROJECT (50-100 SQUARE METERS)»
This nomination was established in order to attract creative young people to discussions of new visions of Moscow as well as urgent issues of modern urban landscape design.
THE PRIZE REWARD
300, 000 RUBLES
James Basson
Founder of a very successful garden design practice (France-United Kingdom), multiple winner of RHS exhibitions, Best in Show (Chelsea 2017), winner of the first prize of the Association of Landscape Architects of Russia -2018, chairman of the Expert Council of the Flower Jam Competition - 2019.
France - United Kingdom
Peter Fink
Is an artist, landscape architect, urban planner, winner of numerous international awards, founder of Studio Fink, author of books on the subject “Public Art and Architecture”.
United Kingdom
Matthew Childs
Landscape designer, founder of Matthew Childs Design studio. Multiple winner of prestigious garden exhibitions in UK, Russia, Turkey including highest awards of the RHS (Royal Horticultural Society) exhibitions. Judge and the head of the jury of international garden festivals.
United Kingdom
James Hitchmough
Professor, Leading Specialist in the Field of Ecological Gardening in the UK, Head of the Department of Landscape Architecture at the University of Sheffield. Included in the top ten landscape designers in the UK. He is also the author of the best-selling book "Dynamic Landscape: Design, Ecology, and Management of Natural Plantings in an Urban Environment". Landscape Design Consultant for London Olympic Park.
United Kingdom
Peter Korn
A nursery owner, gardener and designer at Klinta Trädgård and Peter Korns Trädgård. Peter has designed a large number of landscape projects in Sweden, including the Botanical Garden in Gothenburg, numerous perennial flower beds, roof gardens, green walls, rain gardens.
Sweden
Natalya Borisova
Master of Landscape Architecture, founder of "NB-GARDEN", multiple award winner of many show gardens competitions. Member of the jury of Russian and international garden competitions.
Russia
Gleb Kalyuzhnyuk
Landscape Architect, Civil Engineer, Head of Landscape Company GeoGraffiti LLC, HSE Teacher. Winner of various landscape contests.
Russia
Marina Ponomareva
Landscape designer, project manager in the ART-Project DEREVCE. Hear of the Landscape Design department of the HSE Design School.
Russia
Artem Parshin
Chief Landscape Architect of the Botanical Garden of Moscow State University "Aptekarsky Garden", winner of the Russian National Award for Landscape Architecture, Head of the jury of the Garden Competition "Imperial Gardens of Russia of the State Russian Museum-2016", jury member of Flower Jam 2018.
Russia
Igor Safiullin
Landscape Architect and civil engineer. Lecturer of the course "Landscape design of urban areas of the boulevard and courtyard" of the Department of Landscape Architecture of the Moscow State Technical University. Head of the department of landscape design of the park "Zariadie" in 2016-2017.
Russia
Lyudmila Belykh
Landscape designer, head of Belstudio garden design, multiple winner of garden competitions, member of the jury of landscape competitions, one of the organizers and lecturer of the School of Modern Landscape.
Russia
Oksana Khleborodova
Ïðîôåññèîíàëüíûé ëàíäøàôòíûé äèçàéíåð è àðõèòåêòîð. Îñíîâàòåëü ñîáñòâåííîé Øêîëû ëàíäøàôòíîãî äèçàéíà è âëàäåëåö ïèòîìíèêà «Ìàëàõèò». Àâòîð áîëåå 60 ñòàòåé. Ïîñòîÿííûé ó÷àñòíèê òåëåâèçèîííûõ ïðîãðàìì ïî ëàíäøàôòíîìó äèçàéíó. Òðèæäû çîëîòîé ïðèçåð ìåæäóíàðîäíîãî ôåñòèâàëÿ «Moscow Flower Show» è îáëàäàòåëü Ãðàí-ïðè 2017 ãîäà. Ëàóðåàò ìåæäóíàðîäíûõ ôåñòèâàëåé è êîíêóðñîâ. Îáëàäàòåëü ìåäàëåé «Ðîññèéñêîé íàöèîíàëüíîé ïðåìèè ïî ëàíäøàôòíîé àðõèòåêòóðå».
Russia
This was confirmed at the VIII Russian National Award for Landscape Architecture, where the festival "Moscow Summer. Flower Jam." became the winner in the category Event of the Year ".
Temporary projects of the contest participants of the competition and special projects of curators and the professional jury members decorated the squares, streets and boulevards of the capital, becoming a part of the city landscape. This was unique experience in the world practice of landscape design competitions which proved to be very successful.
During the festival these projects were seen by 7.2 million Moscovites and visitors of the capital. The gardens became so popular among citizens that some of them remained in the city until October.
A total of 260 flower gardens, 9 exhibition gardens and 4 special projects were constructed. It took more than 60 000 flowers and plants to create them.