The result should be an exhibition that is bound to be entertaining, of course, but will also provide food for thought and may bring us to reflect on the fact that creativeness is everywhere, in things big and small, noble and banal, durable and ephemeral, and that this is in fact an essential condition of the quality of our environment.
This competition on the theme of the garden shed addresses a number of questions:
What role do garden sheds play today in our daily environment? Do they improve or interfere with their surroundings, personalize or trivialize them?
Can garden sheds add artistic value to the landscape and make it something extraordinary?
Can garden sheds be the detail that makes a place more attractive?
Whom do garden sheds belong to? What are they for? What do they represent?
The competition is intended as a multidisciplinary exploration of the architecture of garden sheds, but also of their significance, utility and use in people's lives and in relation to their environment.
This is more than an exercise in style, it is also an effort to grasp the meaning of the relationship of garden sheds with their landscape, their symbolism, their creators' imaginations, their connection with the garden, their form, material and uses. After all, a shed may be a gardener's (or smoker's) refuge, a storage place for tools, a secret storehouse, a children's hiding place, an artist's studio, an observatory and much more.