RMIT LA Exhibition Image Design Competition - open now!
Welcoming submissions from current RMIT LA students until Friday April 26
Detailed competition brief below
Enter competition here
Competition Brief
RMIT LA discipline
Landscape architecture is a design-led practice which responds to the challenges of a complex and rapidly changing world through the innovative design with a focus on issues and ideas that respond to urban and regional landscapes at a range of scales.
The RMIT Landscape Architecture discipline offers a suite of design programs, and is one of the longest running in Australia. It explores landscape as a medium that exists at all scales, from micro to macro, from garden to city, from political to infrastructural, from social to economic; and as a medium specific to site, time, and process.
Using critical, design-led enquiry and technical knowledge, internationally recognised faculty, industry partners and a diverse cohort of students engage with real-world projects to investigate and propose ethical and responsible ways of living and practicing in the 21st century.
RMIT LA Exhibition
The RMIT Landscape Architecture exhibition is an end-of-semester showcase of work from across all the programs in our discipline. It aims to bring together the rich and diverse work being done by you, our students, proudly exhibiting it as a body of work representing the ambitions of the landscape discipline at RMIT. It offers an opportunity for us to make visible the depth and specificity of landscape architectural knowledge developed in individual courses and studios, and to celebrate and reflect on the generative relationships and tensions between them as a coherent whole. The exhibition acts as a site for capturing and sharing the landscape knowledge we produce as a teaching and learning community, actively nurturing and contributing to the lineages, practices and discourses our work exists within and builds upon with each new semester.
RMIT LA Exhibition Image – conceptual prompts
The image used to promote the exhibition should exemplify the unique characteristics, concerns and capabilities of our discipline, as one that is distinct from other design disciplines, and from landscape architectural disciplines at other institutions. As such, we encourage you to consider the following conceptual prompts in the way you develop the image to be read at the micro and macro scale (zoomed in and zoomed out)
contingent / contingency
emergent / emergency
dynamic / dynamism
The Exhibition Image - specifications
Each semester an exhibition image is generated as the basis for curatorial and promotional material associated with the exhibition. This image usually draws from exemplary student work from the previous semester while engaging visually with current conceptual ideas relevant to RMIT LA.
The image should aim to be legible at a range of scales, and will be stronger if there is visual appeal when zoomed in and/or zoomed out. This can be achieved by considering finer grain visual detail and relationships within the image, while also composing the image to be read as a whole. What the image communicates at different scales of legibility does not need to be identical, and this is something that you can play with in response to the theme/current conceptual ideas relevant to RMIT LA.
Importantly, the exhibition image for this semester should be based on and developed from one or more original student image/s from the most recent exhibition. In an effort to maintain visual references to the lineage of student projects from within the RMIT landscape architecture programs we expect this to be a recognisable element in the winning exhibition image. The name of the student/s who created this foundational image should be credited in your submission. A folder of shortlisted images for you to select from as a base image can be found here. You are permitted to alter this image in any way you see fit, in accordance with your image design concept, which should be described in the 150 statement tat accompanies your submission.
Considerations when composing the image:
1. The image must be square aspect ratio (1:1)
2. The image should be a minimum of 3800 X 3800 pixels
3. The image should incorporate one or more of the following colours:
a. RMIT LA Green (#00400c)
b. RMIT LA Red (#c5351c)
c. RMIT LA Blue (#8ed8f8)
d. RMIT LA Beige (#d1c5b5)
e. RMIT LA Gray (#e6e7e8)
f. Black (#231f20)
g. White (#ffffff)
4. The image will be cropped to both landscape and portrait orientations, at different aspect ratios for different digital and print formats. Please consider this in the way it is composed.
5. The RMIT LA Exhibition team will prepare exhibition promotional and curatorial material using this image, which will often include overlaid text.
Competition entry submission requirements*
3 X Variations on a single image (jpeg, RGB colour profile, min 3800 X 3800px)
1 X Original working file (photoshop or illustrator only)
150 word statement on the ideas behind the submitted image, including your name and student email address
Profile picture of the entrant/s,
*All of the above should be collected in a single .zip file and submitted via the competition entry form
NOTE: By entering this competition, you agree to have the submitted images and your name shared via social media, the RMIT website, email correspondence, and at the RMIT LA exhibition event.
Submission deadline
All competition entries should be submitted by 5pm, Friday April 26.
Competition judging process
The submitted images will be judged by a panel of permanent RMIT LA staff, with the winner notified by email no later than 5pm, Friday May 3.
Competition prizes
The winning entry will receive a collection of publications relevant to the landscape architectural discipline, selected by the jury.
