Tag Archives: imagination competition

Submission: June 02, 2017
Registration: June 02, 2017
Language: English
Location: Concept
Prizes: $10,000 + publication / Details Below
Type: Open

 

Paradisiacal, utopian, dystopian, heterotopian – islands hold an especially enigmatic and beguiling place in our geographical imagination. Existing in juxtaposition to what’s around them, islands are figures of otherness and difference. Differentiated from their contexts and as much myth as reality, islands have their own rules, their own stories, their own characters, their own ecologies, their own functions, and their own forms. Continue reading

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Submission: 01 April 2017
Registration: 01 April 2017
Language: English
Location: Concept
Prizes: N/A
Type: Open

 

Time is ticking. That’s what it does. Or at least that’s how we represent what we don’t understand. For physics, time is a byproduct of so called space-time, elastic goo created at the very moment that something came from nothing; the moment eternity stopped and the universe began. For geology, time is 4.5 billion years of compression and catastrophe. For biology time is 3.5 billion years of diversification and now the urgency of the sixth extinction. For anthropology time is 150 thousand years since mitochondrial Eve walked out of the rift valley in Ethiopia. Continue reading

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