The Visual Language Project
The City of Calgary Public Art Program, in conjunction with the Utilities and Environmental Protection Department (UEP), is seeking Expressions of Interest from experienced artist-led interdisciplinary teams to create a unified, iconographic or symbolic language that will map and identify infrastructure.
This interdisciplinary team will be asked to create a visual strategy that encourages citizens to think of their relationship to water resources in an expanded manner.
Through the creative use of literal and cognitive mapping, the team will create a graphic (two-dimensional) and sculptural (three-dimensional) language that will promote user recognition and awareness of the natural and man-made watersheds.
The Visual Language project is the cornerstone of the UEP Public Art Plan, in that it should provide a cohesive and elegant visual language for identifying, mapping and codifying the watershed systems.
Through close collaboration with UEP staff and other stakeholders, the Visual Language Project team will provide a conceptual framework for UEP infrastructure, education, and all public art projects to follow.
Total budget for the public art project is $200,000.00CDN.
This will include the creation of a visual language, an action plan for implementation, and a prototype design with proposed budget for a site-specific public art work (the Outfall Project).
Submissions must be received no later than 4:30 p.m. on Friday, August 10, 2007.
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