Award Winners

2018 MOVEMENT Call for Ideas

Seeking for ideas to improve human connection with mobility, and in the context of the new Green Line Light Rail Transit (LRT) in Calgary, d.talks and The City of Calgary launched the MOVEMENT call for ideas last summer. The search for new, provocative ideas, was completed in January, when the jury selected the winning entries.

The members of the jury: Giovanna Borasi (Canadian Centre for Architecture), Amanda Hurley (City Lab), Brigitte Shim (Shim-Sutcliffe Architects), Don Mulligan (Transportation Planner), Nabeel Ramji (Bricolage Calgary), Cowboy Smithx (Iiniistsi Treaty Arts Society) and Marianna Vaidman Stone (Gehl Institute), selected one overall winner and seven category winners.

the winning Ideas will be on display in calgary from May 23 through June 14, 2019.

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overall winner

“Metabolic Movements: Recovering Riparia through Slow Flows” by Tawab Hlimi

Metabolic Movements: Recovering Riparia through Slow Flows by Tawab Hlimi is an idea about slow infrastructure that juxtaposes two layers of movement: that of complete streets optimized for pedestrian and bicycle safety, along with a layer of stormwater flows that considers daylighting the Confederation Creek. Linked through the common flows of people and water, road and riparian corridors are visualized as a hybrid metabolic network, integrating geographic notions of ‘place’ with infrastructural imperative of ‘performance’.

The Seven Categories

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Provocative

Back to the Future Wild West by Sergio Bianchi, Simone Fracasso and Chiara Pellegrin. This idea addresses the simultaneous conditions of an expanding urban footprint and concern for endangered Mother Earth. Their proposal looks 200 years ahead and imagines how to use the light rail as a backbone for a new city… a land where the buffalo might again roam.

Tactical

Landprints: Designing for Ephemeral by Juliana Morar and Celia Lee, proposes a solution to rethink the dedicated parking lot with a system of various shared, adaptable spaces for public use.

Climate Sustainability

9 Minute Villages by Mark Cooper, Terry Klassen, Gregory Hart and Michael Taylor. This idea considers a zoning of a nine-minute cycling radius from an LRT station and explores future land use opportunities.

Resilience

Alyth-Bonnybrook-Manchester on track(s) by Bram van Der Heijden, considers the potential for social and economic change in an industrial neighbourhood by adapting a disused rail network and incorporating active transportation

Memory

Threaded Identities by Kaitlyn Pelletier and Scott Bell identifies unique character traits of seven areas along the proposed Green Line that reveal the history, ecology and culture along the route.

Technology

Destination: station by Jason Johnson, Josh Taron, Hayden Pattullo, Immanuel Arole, Kristen Forward, Charlene Karl, Danielle Kim, Craig MacDonald, Sumaya Nsair, Peter Tomanek. This idea considers autonomous vehicles in looking for ways to develop a transit station as a destination.

Public is Everyone

Route X by Sarah Danahy, uses crowdsourcing as a way to capture the experiential knowledge of streets and paths.