Land Art Generator Initiative (LAGI), founded by Elizabeth Monoian and Robert Ferry, is an organization dedicated to devising

alternative energy Renewable energy (also called green energy) is energy made from renewable resource, renewable natural resources that are replenished on a human lifetime, human timescale. The most widely used renewable energy types are solar energy, wind pow ...

solutions through sustainable design and

public art Public art is art in any Media (arts), media whose form, function and meaning are created for the general public through a public process. It is a specific art genre with its own professional and critical discourse. Public art is visually and phy ...

by providing platforms for scientists and engineers to collaborate with artists, architects and other creatives on public art projects that generate

sustainable energy Energy system, Energy is sustainability, sustainable if it "meets the needs of the present without compromising the ability of future generations to meet their own needs." Definitions of sustainable energy usually look at its effects on the e ...

infrastructures. Since 2010, LAGI has hosted biannual international competitions stimulating artists to design public art that produces renewable energy. Sites for these contests have included Abu Dhabi, United Arab Emirates, Copenhagen, Denmark, New York City and Santa Monica, California. Land Art Generator Initiative also led efforts that have resulted in the world's first Solar Mural artworks.

LAGI International Design Competitions

Every two years since 2010, Land Art Generator Initiative has conducted international competitions leading design teams from over forty countries to create for art-based solutions to renewable energy challenges. 2010 - Adu Dhabi, United Arab Emirates 2012 -

Freshkills Park Freshkills Park is a public park being built atop a former landfill on Staten Island. At about , it will be the largest park developed in New York City since the 19th century. Its construction began in October 2008 and is slated to continue in ...

, New York 2014 -

Copenhagen Copenhagen ( ) is the capital and most populous city of Denmark, with a population of 1.4 million in the Urban area of Copenhagen, urban area. The city is situated on the islands of Zealand and Amager, separated from Malmö, Sweden, by the ...

Denmark Denmark is a Nordic countries, Nordic country in Northern Europe. It is the metropole and most populous constituent of the Kingdom of Denmark,, . also known as the Danish Realm, a constitutionally unitary state that includes the Autonomous a ...

2016 - Santa Monica, California 2018 - Melbourne, Australia 2019 - Abu Dubai, United Arab Emirates 2020 - Fly Ranch,

Nevada Nevada ( ; ) is a landlocked state in the Western United States. It borders Oregon to the northwest, Idaho to the northeast, California to the west, Arizona to the southeast, and Utah to the east. Nevada is the seventh-most extensive, th ...

2022 - Mannheim, Germany

Solar Mural Artworks

The world's first Solar Mural artworks, developed through leadership from the Land Art Generator Initiative, are located in San Antonio, Texas. These artworks are the result of an advanced photovoltaic film technology that allows light to filter through an image-printed film adhered to solar panels. The first is a stand-alone work called ''La Monarca.'' The world's first wall-mounted Solar Mural artwork is on the facade of Brackenridge Elementary School.

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