LAGI 2025 Fiji Design Competition

LAGI 2025 Fiji Design Competition is now open for entries!

LAGI 2025 Fiji Design Competition : The residents of Marou, Fiji and the Land Art Generator Initiative (LAGI) invite you to design a permanent destination artwork that will supply clean and reliable electricity and drinking water to the coastal village’s 67 households, support tourism, and help to build a sustainable future for generations.

➜ Short description

The residents of Marou, Fiji and the Land Art Generator Initiative (LAGI) invite you to design a permanent destination artwork that will supply clean and reliable electricity and drinking water to the coastal village’s 67 households, support tourism, and help to build a sustainable future for generations.

LAGI 2025 Fiji is a global design competition that has been co-created with Marou Village, a community on the southeast coast of Naviti Island in the Yasawa Group archipelago in the Western Ba Region of Fiji to secure a thriving future in harmony with nature.
The residents of Marou Village and LAGI invite you to design a beautiful, creative, and engaging installation (a permanent destination artwork) that will supply clean and reliable electricity and drinking water to the coastal village’s 67 households.

LAGI design competitions are opportunities to re-think conventional ideas and put forward exceptional solutions for sustainable systems designed to double as beautiful places for people — regenerative works of art for landscapes, cultural sites, destinations, and public parks — creating shared land uses and co-benefits for healthy communities.

A publication, exhibitions held in partnership with the Fiji Arts Council, and a program of community engagement events will communicate the innovative outcomes throughout Fiji and around the world, inspiring the public about the beauty and wealth of possibilities of a world beyond carbon while demonstrating creative adaptations to a rapidly shifting climate.

LAGI 2025 Fiji focuses our collective creative energies on one of the world’s most pressing challenges — how can island coastal communities preserve and enhance their ways of life in the face of a changing climate?

Rising sea levels, rapidly warming waters, prolonged droughts, and storms of increasing severity are the result of atmospheric greenhouse gas pollution to which island communities have hardly contributed and yet from which they now face the most extreme consequences. What does it mean to design distributed sustainable infrastructure within this context?

Based on the success of these prototypes, and in coordination with local authorities and funding partners, the plan is for one project to be chosen for implementation at full-scale as a pilot project with the Village of Marou. The pilot project is intended to set a replicable model for designing, implementing, and operating renewable energy and water systems with island communities and exquisite destinations around the world. Energy and Climate in Fiji

Having contributed insignificantly to global greenhouse gas emissions, island nations such as Fiji nevertheless find themselves today on the front lines of climate change. Meanwhile, a reliance on expensive imported fuel oil offers an economic opportunity for rapid decarbonization through renewable deployment and electrification. Once complete, this transition has the potential to free up more than half of the export earnings of the country, which are currently spent on the importation of fuel.

While access to the sun’s energy in Fiji is strong, the implementation of solar power generation presents significant challenges, including aesthetics and land use.

For a nation where land is a precious (and vanishing) resource, practical design solutions for renewable energy installations that share land with other uses such as cultural destinations, farms, public spaces, and habitats can be designed to increase the potential for a 100% renewable island economy. These new energy system designs can also consider how their aesthetic manifestation can support and enhance the beautiful landscapes that bring millions of people to visit each year from around the world.

While electricity is a pressing need in Marou Village, also of critical importance is ensuring reliable access to freshwater. As global temperatures rise there is increasing variability and volatility in precipitation patterns. Rainy seasons bring severe flooding while dry seasons are even drier. LAGI 2025 Fiji is therefore seeking innovative solutions that can integrate regenerative energy and water systems.

➜ Who may enter?

Whether you are a professional designer, university professor, student, artist, or anyone passionate about designing for a better world, your participation in LAGI 2025 Fiji will help to advance the evolution of climate adaptation design and destination land art.

➜ Prize:

Two winning teams will each be provided with a stipend of $100,000 USD to advance their design proposal and build a functioning prototype of their idea in Fiji.

Dozens of submissions will be included in a full-color hardbound book with wide distribution and exhibited throughout Fiji.