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<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:justify"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family:"Aptos",sans-serif">Dear Chicago Community Gardeners Association,
</span><span lang="EN-US" style="mso-fareast-language:IT"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:justify"><span lang="EN-US"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:justify"><span lang="EN-US">I contact you regarding the Call for Ideas for the
<b>V edition of the Radicepura Garden Festival </b>(Sicily – Italy) </span><a href="http://www.radicepurafestival.com"><span lang="EN-US">www.radicepurafestival.com</span></a><span lang="EN-US"> first international biennial dedicated to the Mediterranean landscape,
which since 2017 has been promoting a call for young landscape designers, agronomists etc. and great masters of the landscape.
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:justify"><span lang="EN-US"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:justify"><span lang="EN-US">The topic of the fifth edition is
<b>Chaos (and) order in the Garden</b>. <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:justify"><span lang="EN-US"> <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:justify"><span lang="EN-US">I would like to insert our call, expiring on the
<b>15th of September 2024</b>, in your renowned portal.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:justify"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family:"Aptos",sans-serif">We thinks is an important opportunity for your associates. <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-top-alt:auto;margin-bottom:12.0pt"><span lang="EN-US">Partecipation is free and is aimed to young people under 36. University and colleges students can participate with a professor as mentor. </span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family:"Aptos",sans-serif"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p style="background:white"><b><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:11.0pt;color:black;mso-fareast-language:EN-US">The international call is open to students, landscape architects, agronomists, garden designers, botanists, nursery gardeners, urban planners,
engineers, artists, curators and all those who have the skills to design and create a garden.</span></b><b><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:11.0pt;mso-fareast-language:EN-US"><o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<p style="background:white"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:11.0pt;color:black;mso-fareast-language:EN-US">For the next edition of the Festival will be realized 7 gardens reserved for under 36 years old - teams or individuals.</span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:11.0pt;mso-fareast-language:EN-US"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p style="background:white"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:11.0pt;color:black;mso-fareast-language:EN-US">Participation is free.</span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:11.0pt;mso-fareast-language:EN-US"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p style="background:white"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:11.0pt;color:black;mso-fareast-language:EN-US">Gardens should be a celebration of biodiversity, the natural landscape, and the Mediterranean man-made landscape. Gardens should be innovative, attractive,
usable, capture the attention of visitors, and clearly illustrate their design idea and message. The Festival encourages interaction with the public, an innovative approach with new ideas that support and develop a positive relationship between people, their
culture and the natural environment where they live. The diversity of climate zones in the Mediterranean and the complex cultural vicissitudes of the area offer a wide range of creative ideas.
</span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:11.0pt;mso-fareast-language:EN-US"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p style="background:white"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:11.0pt;color:black;mso-fareast-language:EN-US">The deadline to send the applications is the 15th of September 2024.
</span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:11.0pt;mso-fareast-language:EN-US"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p style="background:white"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:11.0pt;color:black;mso-fareast-language:EN-US">To apply the competition visit the website
<a href="http://www.radicepurafestival.com">www.radicepurafestival.com</a> </span>
<span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:11.0pt;mso-fareast-language:EN-US"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p style="background:white"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:11.0pt;color:black;mso-fareast-language:EN-US"><a href="mailto:application@radicepurafestival.com">application@radicepurafestival.com</a></span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:11.0pt;mso-fareast-language:EN-US"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p style="background:white"><b><span lang="EN-US" style="color:black;mso-fareast-language:EN-US">or to download the call for ideas
<a href="https://www.radicepurafestival.com/en/call-for-ideas-2024/">https://www.radicepurafestival.com/en/call-for-ideas-2024/</a></span></b><b><span lang="EN-US" style="mso-fareast-language:EN-US"><o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<p style="background:white"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:11.0pt;color:black;mso-fareast-language:EN-US">“Climate change and conflicts have determined a new approach to the environment, which in turn calls for a new perspective in landscape design, keeping
abreast with our day and age: lines, paths, volumes, functions and gardeners are no longer enough to turn a place into a garden. Gardens have always required planning, although they need not be educational but leave room to our imagination. As certainty of
formal spaces is wavering, a change of style is blossoming no longer fearing to identify key values in small things. In the new gardens the wonderment of doing and making is not juxtaposed 1 to leisure as it feeds on our greater awareness and respect for the
environment, preferring slow time as the time of Nature. Plants are the matter and the subject of all gardens in as much as they represent harmony and beauty: left unto themselves they initially require time find this balance, they change the shapes and sizes
in a garden, they even need opposing forces to be controlled. Yet, a well designed project will enable plants to reach maturity, synchronizing with our expectations, completing the garden with virtuous variations able to fulfill even the most ambitious dreams.
We are aware of a biological network that draws energy from biodiversity: it means the boundaries between personal and collective spheres dissolve giving way to a more encompassing notion of Nature, an idea we are attracted to and which helps us recognize
landscapes as a common good. As we have changed, so have our ideas of Nature: garden designing will have to seek new forms based on a evolved concept of wilderness culture. New apparently chaotic gardens spring up, as an artistic expression to fulfill dreams,
as a natural choice to create the most beautiful of gardens, where both the biological forces and the creative intuitions of the design blend into a balance. Nature lovers know that chaos is a transient state that does not pertain to us, but garden lovers
know that nature accepts no imposition, unless care and constant presence are offered.”</span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:11.0pt;mso-fareast-language:EN-US"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p style="background:white"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:11.0pt;color:black;mso-fareast-language:EN-US">We are addressing designers from all walks of life who have good knowledge of Nature, artistic skills and humbleness, to identify style strategies
and practices able to lightly balance order and disorder, to indulge Nature without domesticating it.</span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:11.0pt;mso-fareast-language:EN-US"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p style="background:white"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;color:black;mso-fareast-language:EN-US">Antonio Perazzi, artistic director Radicepura Garden Festival</span><span style="font-size:11.0pt;mso-fareast-language:EN-US"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-top-alt:auto;margin-bottom:12.0pt"><span lang="EN-US">Attached is the text of the call for ideas and the images to publish them on your social and non-social channels.</span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family:"Aptos",sans-serif"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family:"Aptos",sans-serif">You can tag us at
<a id="OWAAM9B3F3B44C9D8471394F8424E7E2B6040" href="mailto:RadicepuraGardenFestival@radicepurafestival.com">
<span style="font-family:"Aptos",sans-serif;text-decoration:none">@Radicepura Garden Festival</span></a><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p style="margin:0cm;background:white"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;color:black;mso-fareast-language:EN-US">Kind regards,
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<p style="margin:0cm;background:white"><span style="font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:black"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
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