Request for Proposals – 2015 iLANDing Laboratories Initiative
Dear iLAND Community Members,
Following the successful inaugural year of the iLANDing Laboratory Initiative, we are pleased to announce that the program will continue for a second year. The 2015 iLANDing Laboratories will continue in an experimental format as a series of workshops/laboratories designed by members of the iLAND community as well as those with a strong interest in proposing a Laboratory that aligns with iLAND’s mission and the values of iLANDing (for more information please see appendix below). The Laboratories will serve as focused forums and platforms for a reflective, advanced discourse around urban ecology, kinesthetic experience, and new approaches to interdisciplinary creative processes and draw on the history of iLAND programming which has been cultivated over the past eight years through the iLAB Residency program, iLAND Symposia, and the development of the iLANDing Method.
This Request for Proposals is open to all past iLANDing Laboratory participants, iLAB Residents, iLAB applicants, Symposium participants and others with a strong interest in proposing a workshop that aligns with the values of iLAND. New combinations of collaborators are welcomed and encouraged. Past iLANDing Laboratory residents are welcome to reapply for continued support in order to deepen into the process of a previously presented workshop. Laboratories should take on the structure (forum, workshop, walk, charette, tour, discussion, performance, potluck, experiment) and duration (two hours, two days, a month of Sundays), which will best support the proposed investigation. Laboratories will take place between March-July 2015.
An honorarium of $250 will be awarded to accepted proposals to assist in covering workshop expenses. iLAND will assist with online and print promotion for the Laboratories and provide planning support and mentorship in designing the laboratories
Proposals must be submitted to info@ilandart.org by October 20, 2014. Please limit your proposal to a two pages and send as a PDF attachment. If you have questions, please contact Jennifer Monson at 917-860-8239 or jennifer@ilandart.org. Final decisions will be announced on November 20, 2014.
We hope these workshops will provide an opportunity to share your current work and interests as well as to revisit and expand upon ideas that might have been initially explored during previous iLANDing Laboratories, iLAB Residencies, and/or iLAND Symposia.
Yours,
iLAND Board & Staff
APPENDIX: iLANDING CORE VALUES
iLANDing is a collaborative methodology that is constantly evolving as it is practiced.
iLANDing Core Values: The exchange of knowledge through collaborative process; engagement with landscape/system or site as an active collaborator; the re-orientation of knowledge production through embodied, kinetic experience; fostering innovative connections across disciplines in order to gain new perspectives and understandings of complex systems; integration with public discourse as a means to craft and activate ethical, indeterminate practices that value the reciprocal nature of human actions and natural systems.
iLANDing is a platform to:
- explore, revise, and re-imagine and expand individuals’ understanding of their own disciplinary methods, practices and processes
- develop new interdisciplinary / hybrid methods and practices from the experiences of sharing process, language, and on-site experience
- engage the site/ecosystem as collaborator and in the long term shape an informed and in depth understanding of the relationship between the site and human action
- create meaningful public engagements that activate kinetic, as well as scientific approaches to understanding urban ecologies
In over ten years of iLANDing we have found that there are six components to every process that all interdisciplinary teams had to address in the process of working together.
Focus: Using a well-defined research topic to facilitate and inspire collaborative research
Research Methods: Exploring, using and re-crafting research methods from different disciplines as well as developing hybrid research practices in the process of working together
Common Language: Facilitating communication within the group when words have different meanings for people of different backgrounds
Component of Site: Working on (and with) a particular site and treating the site itself as a collaborator in the process; negotiating the relationship between working on site versus working remotely (such as studio)
Individual versus Collective: Finding a balance between individual space and working collectively
Documentation: How you document the process and capture moments of insight or inspiration when something new begins to emerge
For more information about the 2014 iLANDing Laboratory Program visit the program page HERE
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