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.
Pocket Park
Milan Rai
I urged the city planners to rethink public spaces and provided alternatives solutions. My advocacy led me to the issues of land encroachment and urbanization that have shrunk open spaces both in spatial and democratic terms. My eco-social art practice embodies landscape architecture, socio-ecological processes, and urban design with a critical eye toward green remediation. This previously encroached land is not turned into a pocket park. It breathes hope in between the dense concretes offering a placid transition to the passers-by.
I urged the city planners to rethink public spaces and provided alternatives solutions. My advocacy led me to the issues of land encroachment and urbanization that have shrunk open spaces both in spatial and democratic terms. My eco-social art practice embodies landscape architecture, socio-ecological processes, and urban design with a critical eye toward green remediation. This previously encroached land is not turned into a pocket park. It breathes hope in between the dense concretes offering a placid transition to the passers-by.