Design Competition Powell Street Festival
As our final project we had the opportunity to participate in a public art competition: 3rd Annual Design Competition for Powell Street Festival
Presented in partnership with Revery Architecture and Abaton Projects, students were invited to design an interactive artwork for the 42nd Anniversary Powell Street Festival, scheduled for August 4 and 5, 2018. The winning submission was awarded mentorship from Revery Architecture and Abaton Projects, and a commission and production budget to build their design.
Emiko Morita, Executive Director, Powell Street Festival Society and
Kelty McKinnon, PFS STUDIO | PLANNING + URBAN DESIGN + LANDSCAPE ARCHITECTURE visited us in class and introduced us to the rich history of the festival.
About Powell Street Festival
Powell Street Festival, an annual celebration of Japanese Canadian arts and culture, is the longest running community arts festival in the Lower Mainland and the largest event of its kind in Canada. The festival honours Vancouver’s original Japanese Canadian neighbourhood and provides the Vancouver community-at-large with a fully accessible, diverse, innovative, and challenging Japanese Canadian voice while encouraging a deeper sense of interconnectedness and exchange. To further interconnectedness, our annual programming includes collaborative and/or intercultural explorations within our geographic and cultural umbrella communities (including the Asian Canadian, arts and culture, and Vancouver’s Downtown Eastside communities). The festival’s overnight security, which is provided by Oppenheimer Park Fieldhouse and Lookout Society, is an example of our community partnerships.
During the summer months we work as a directed studies class on the realisation of the project. 
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