A team of Daniels students were selected as finalists in the professional
category for the ONE Prize Mowing to Growing: Reinventing the American Lawn,
A Design Competition for Creating Productive Green Space in Cities, an
international competition organized by Terreform ONE. A second team was
also selected as semifinalists.

FINALISTS: Drew Adams (March 4), Fadi
Masoud (MLA'10), Karen May (MLA 3), Denise
Pinto (MLA 3), and Jameson Skaife (MLA 3)

Feed Toronto: Growing the Hydro Fields
Their entry countered that
rather than pursuing the transformation of a privatized lawn landscape to create
productive greenspace, urban agriculture should be pursued first on public lands
for the greatest and most immediate impact. It posited that growing the
sprawling network of hydro corridors, a staple of the North American urban
landscape, would both circumvent the need for the buy-in of countless individual
land owners while embracing the site's significance as a place of energy
production—this time through food. Ultimately, a new agency, FeedToronto, akin
to BuildToronto and InvestToronto was proposed and charged with the re-imagining
of over 6,000 acres of mowed lawn as an abundant urban green generating
affordable, nutritious, local food and changing the public perception of
productive green space in cities. 

http://www.oneprize.org/winners.html

SEMIFINALISTS: Cleo Buster (MArch 4) and Theresa
Mader (MArch 4)

360° | 365 Harvester: North America as a Patchwork of
Production
The 360° | 365 Harvester is an integrated system that
transforms the conventional understanding of surface from that of a static,
single-purpose element to one of production and multiuse. It is a dynamic and
adaptive system that is productive three hundred and sixty-five days of the
year, be it employed vertically, horizontally or somewhere in between. The
structure act both as a passive garden, designed to harvest wind, solar energy
and rainwater, and as an active garden, in which flowers, vegetables and herbs
can be grown. The 360° | 365 Harvester bridges all scale boundaries, ranging
from tall buildings without lawns, where the exterior cladding is turned into a
productive skin, to suburban houses with large lawns, as well as open spaces or
parks.

http://www.oneprize.org/semifinalists.html

The finalists will be featured on www.Oneprize.org and www.Terreform.org. They will be also
exhibited at the Award Ceremony on July 29, 2010. 

Mowing to Growing: Reinventing the American Lawn, A Design Competition
for Creating Productive Green Space in Cities called for technical,
urbanistic, and architectural strategies not simply for the food production
required to feed the cities and suburbs, but the possibilities of diet,
agriculture, and retrofitted facilities that could achieve that level within the
constraints of the local climate and conditions. The entries ranged from
vertical farms, neighborhood farms, farming on vacant lots and buildings,
abandoned infrastructure, front lawns, strip malls, roof tops, river barges and
inside trailers.  The competition drew 202 teams and 850 team members from more
than 20 countries and five continents.