Landscapes of the Imagination Submissions
Inspire: Airdrie’s Multi-Use and Library Facility
Deadline for story collections: December 31, 2024
Landscapes of the Imagination is a swirling cloud of stories floating up into the atrium of Inspire, Airdrie’s new Multi-Use and Library Facility. Drawing from the folklore, fantasy and fiction that feeds our imagination, miniature scenes rise inside each bubble, determined in collaboration with the community. Local people are invited to share their favourite books and stories, and their tales will co-create this whimsical installation as a solid manifestation of our collective imagination.
This work was inspired by the library. A vast majority of Inspire will be dedicated to the new Airdrie Public Library (53,000 of 73,000 square feet).
Libraries are often the first place that children – and many adults – learn to dream, to see possibilities beyond their own experience.
Airdrie is the fastest growing city in Alberta. While the new facility will help address the practical needs of the community, we designed Landscapes of the Imagination to nourish the conceptual needs a community experiencing rapid growth, to help fuel the leap of imagination required to undergo great change.
Dozens of floating spheres will rise up into the atrium. Inside each sphere is an intricately detailed domed scene, carefully rendered in paper-white and earth tones.
For more information and to submit, visit share your favourite story! – Landscapes of the Imagination.
