A free-to-enter contest is being held to design coastal infrastructures in Fiji that double as landscape artworks (Deadline: 5 May)The Land Art Generator Initiative (LAGI) 2025 competition invites multidisciplinary teams to submit beautiful and creatively engaging proposals for a new landscape-based artwork that could provide reliable energy and drinking water to the coastal villages 67 households.The free-to-enter contest aims to identify a new sustainable energy infrastructure solution for the settlement on the Yasawa archipelago which is threatened by extreme weather from the climate crisis including rising sea levels, stronger cyclones and flood events. Concepts must also support tourism and promote sustainability for future generations.Yasawa archipelagoCredit:Image by Christoph de Erisch licensed as Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlikeAccording to the brief: LAGI 2025 Fiji focuses our collective creative energies on one of the worlds most pressing challengeshow can island communities preserve and enhance their ways of life in the face of a changing climate?Rising sea levels, rapidly warming waters, prolonged droughts, and storms of increasing severity are the result of atmospheric greenhouse gas pollution to which island coastal communities have hardly contributed and yet from which they now face the most extreme consequences.While access to solar energy in Fiji is very good, the implementation of solar power generation presents some interesting challenges, including aesthetics and land use.Marou is a small coastal community in Fiji which is at increased risk of extreme weather events as a result of the climate crisis and is facing new challenges in securing fresh drinking water due to lengthening dry seasons.US-based LAGI was launched in 2008 as a platform for designing and constructing new large-scale public art installations that generate clean energy. Previous contests have focused on sites in Dubai and Abu Dhabi, New York, Copenhagen, Melbourne, and Santa Monica.Full details of the LAGI 2025 contest brief will be announced in early January. Project supporters include University of Fiji, Arizona State University and the Fiji Arts Council.LAGI 2025Key aims include delivering prototypes which can later be used in coordination with local authorities and funding partners to deliver a full-scale pilot project that could transform access to renewable energy and fresh water for small island communities around the world.Judges will include Ilisari Naqau Nasau, Sau Turaga or chief maker of the Village of Marou; Deb Guenther, landscape architect and partner at Mithun; Fenton Lutunatabua, storyteller and climate activist; and Setoki Tuiteci, architect at Ethos Edge Design Studio in Fiji.Two winning teams will each receive a $100,000 USD stipend to advance their design proposal and build a functioning small-scale prototype in Fiji.How to applyDeadline: 5 MayCompetition funding source: a philanthropic donor who wishes to remain anonymousProject funding source: a philanthropic donor who wishes to remain anonymousOwner of site(s): Marou Village, an iTaukei community on the southeast coast of Naviti Island in the Yasawa Group archipelago in the Western Ba Region of Fiji.Ilisari Naqau Nasau, the Sauturaga and Acting Chief of Marou Village, invited LAGI to bring the global design competition to Naviti Island and oversaw the coordination of the co-design process of the design briefContact details: lagi@landartgenerator.orgVisit the competition website for more information