OPEN INTERNATIONAL COMPETITION OF URBAN LANDSCAPE DESIGN "FLOWER JAM"
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!
30.08.2018
The final of the Open International Competition of Urban Landscape Design "Flower Jam" started in Moscow! Find out where the competitive gardens are located, and make your route!
29.08.2018
On August 30 - the opening day of the festival "Flower Jam" - on Tverskaya Square will be a full-time meeting of the jury of The international competition of urban landscape design.
28.08.2018
Открыта регистрация на Международный форум ландшафтного дизайна
Открыта регистрация на Международный форум ландшафтного дизайна, который состоится в парке «Зарядье» уже в это воскресенье 2 сентября.
24.08.2018
MOSCOW INTERNATIONAL FORUM OF LANDSCAPE DESIGN WILL BE HELD IN ZARYADYE PARK
On September 2, the Moscow International Forum of Urban Landscape Design will be held in Zaryadye Park as part of the “Flower Jam” Open International Competition of Urban Landscape Design
10.07.2018
Peter Fink, a famous British architect, artist and urbanist together with Matthew Childs, one of the best landscape designers of Great Britain, who is a new winner and gold medalist of the recent RHS Hampton Court Palace Flower Show - 2018, the most prestigious flower exhibition in the world, they prepared a special project "Не торопись!" (or “Don’t Rush!”, “Take your Time!” in English) for the Moscow "Flower Jam" 2018 contest.
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
Ландшафтный дизайнер и архитектор. Полный аккредитованный член Общества садовых дизайнеров (SGD) в Великобритании и Федерации ландшафтных дизайнеров Франции Fédération Française du Paysage (FFP). Многократный призер выставок RHS, победитель Челси-2017.
France - United Kingdom
Peter Fink
Ландшафтный архитектор, урбанист, лауреат многочисленных международных премий, основатель Studio Fink, автор книг по теме «Публичное искусство и архитектура».
United Kingdom
Matthew Childs
Ландшафтный дизайнер, основатель «Matthew Childs Design studio». Многократный победитель престижных садовых выставок. Обладатель трех золотых медалей RHS (Королевского общества садоводов). Судья и председатель жюри международных садовых фестивалей, с 2018 года - квалифицированный судья RHS (Королевского общества садоводов).
United Kingdom
James Hitchmo
Профессор, ведущий специалист в области экологического садоводства в Великобритании, заведующий кафедрой ландшафтной архитектуры в Университете Шеффилда. Входит в десятку лучших ландшафтных дизайнеров Великобритании. Автор книги-бестселлера «Динамический ландшафт: дизайн, экология и управление природными посадками в городской среде». Консультант по ландшафтному дизайну Олимпийского парка в Лондоне.
United Kingdom
Peter Korn
Специалист по декоративным растениям, владелец питомника, садовник и дизайнер в Klinta Trädgård и Peter Korns Trädgård. Создатель большого количества ландшафтных проектов в Швеции, в том числе в Ботаническом саду в Гетеборге, многочисленных цветников из многолетников, садов на крышах, зеленых стен, дождевых садов.
Sweden
Natalia Borisova
Магистр ландшафтной архитектуры, руководитель ландшафтной мастерской «NB-GARDEN». Успешный практикующий ландшафтный архитектор, автор многих ландшафтных проектов, которые получили высокие награды на престижных конкурсах и выставках. Член жюри российских и международных фестивалей садового искусства, автор статей в профильных журналах и на интернет-порталах.
Russia
Gleb Kalyuzhnyuk
Руководитель ландшафтной компании ООО GeoGraffiti, архитектор, инженер-строитель. Преподаватель ВШЭ, ведущий авторского курса инженерной подготовки территорий. Призер и лауреат различных ландшафтных конкурсов.
Russia
Marina Ponomareva
Ландшафтный дизайнер, руководитель проектов в «ART-Проект DEREVCE». Куратор и преподаватель профиля «Ландшафтный дизайн» Школы дизайна НИУ ВШЭ. Участник, организатор, эксперт и член жюри конкурсных проектов для ландшафтных дизайнеров, студентов и выпускников ландшафтных учебных заведений. Лектор и автор статей по ландшафтному дизайну, созданию цветников, садовым многолетникам в периодических изданиях.
Russia
Artem Parshin
Главный ландшафтный архитектор Ботанического сада МГУ «Аптекарский огород», лауреат Российской национальной премии по ландшафтной архитектуре в номинации «Ландшафтный архитектор года-2012». Председатель жюри конкурса садов Фестиваля Императорские сада России Государственного русского Музея 2016 году в Санкт-Петербурге.
Russia
Igor Safiullin
Преподаватель курса «Ландшафтное проектирование городских территорий бульвара и двора» в филиале МГТУ им. Баумана на кафедре ландшафтной архитектуры. Автор многочисленных статей в научно-популярных журналах профессиональной направленности. Руководитель отдела по садово-парковой и природоохранной работе парка «Зарядье» в 2016–2017.
Russia
Lyudmila Belykh
Ландшафтный дизайнер, руководитель компании «Belstudio», художник, преподаватель, мастер садовой колористики. Автор многочисленных публикаций и лекционных курсов. Победитель выставок, член жюри ландшафтных конкурсов, один из организаторов Школы современного ландшафта.
Russia
Oksana Khleborodova
Профессиональный ландшафтный дизайнер и архитектор. Основатель собственной Школы ландшафтного дизайна и владелец питомника «Малахит». Автор более 60 статей. Постоянный участник телевизионных программ по ландшафтному дизайну. Трижды золотой призер международного фестиваля «Moscow Flower Show» и обладатель Гран-при 2017 года. Лауреат международных фестивалей и конкурсов. Обладатель медалей «Российской национальной премии по ландшафтной архитектуре».
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.