Award 2021
Welcome to the Social Art Award 2021 – Online Gallery!
We are grateful for the many inspiring contributions from artists around the world. The selected works reflect a broad spectrum of contemporary social art practices and explore new relationships between humans, nature, and technology. They address themes such as ecological regeneration, climate justice, sustainable futures, social resilience, and more-than-human perspectives.
Below you will find the submissions from the Social Art Award 2021 – New Greening edition that passed the initial jury round. The Online Gallery offers public visibility to these works and encourages dialogue around their ideas and approaches; it does not replace the final jury decision.
Thank you to all artists for sharing your visionary and committed work. We invite you to explore the gallery and engage with the perspectives shaping New Greening.
Reclaim back the streets! - Reuse parking spaces
Elena Huning
A long time city planning was all about cars. We build cities for cars with big streets and a lot of space for parking. The climate crisis and the corona pandemic has shown that the places where we live have to become more liveable, greener and more flexible. We designed 10 modules with different requirements that have the size of a standard parking lot. They will function as an extension of the side walks and give the neighbourhood more space for the people who live there. A resilient city must be able to react to crises. To counteract climate change cars have to leave the cities and give back the space to the people. Aditionally greenery and water in the modules can cool down the neighbourhood and refresh the people.
A long time city planning was all about cars. We build cities for cars with big streets and a lot of space for parking. The climate crisis and the corona pandemic has shown that the places where we live have to become more liveable, greener and more flexible. We designed 10 modules with different requirements that have the size of a standard parking lot. They will function as an extension of the side walks and give the neighbourhood more space for the people who live there. A resilient city must be able to react to crises. To counteract climate change cars have to leave the cities and give back the space to the people. Aditionally greenery and water in the modules can cool down the neighbourhood and refresh the people.