LAGI Glasgow
Pidgin Perfect are excited to be shortlisted as part of a design team which includes Stallan-Brand and Glasgow Science Festival, for the Land Art Generation Initiative in Glasgow.
The aim of LAGI Glasgow is to demonstrate the potential for artists, designers and architects to contribute to renewable energy infrastructure and integrated it in to a place-making approach. The project will undertake research and development integrating art and interdisciplinary creative processes into the conception of site-specific, solution-based public art interventions which also function as innovative renewable energy power plants. The project has arisen out of a shared interest amongst the collaborators—BIGG, Glasgow City Council, Glasgow Life/Velocity, Land Art Generator Initiative, Scottish Canals as well as Creative Carbon Scotland and ecoartscotland—in the potential for creative practice to address renewable energy as a social and cultural as well as built environment issue and energy policy issue.
The brief that the team will address will highlight the Canal Partnership’s ambitions for the Dundas Hill site to be a landmark development, raising ‘place awareness’. The Dundas Hill is currently brownfield site (a former distillery) and BIGG Regeneration aims to deliver a creative, low energy, custom build and mixed use development. The LAGI Project perfectly augment this change to the area and become a city-wide landmark for this new type of place, linking sustainability and social justice aspects related to district energy.
The LAGI Glasgow project also meets wider city ambitions for a more sustainable future reflecting the transformation from an industrial city to a sustainable leader – ‘Steam to Green story’. The project speaks to the ambitions for Glasgow to engage in a new green industrial economy; develop a strong growth in green jobs including the creative, science and engineering sectors, apprenticeships and employment; and develop public engagement and participation with renewables.
Each of the invited LAGI Glasgow teams includes an interdisciplinary venture of Glasgow-based practices paired with one past LAGI competition team.
Local knowledge and outside perspective will come together in the three paired teams, including ours, who will each present their proposal that benefits both conceptually and technically from this variety of professional backgrounds.
More about the LAGI Project can be found on their website here
