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Burning Man puts out call for designers to reimagine its iconic layout

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By Natalie Mortimer, N/A

August 18, 2015 | 2 min read

Nevada's annual Burning Man festival has launched an international design competition to explore “new spatial and geometric possibilities” for its iconic Black Rock City layout.

Burning Man’s switches up its themes and art installations every year, but after almost two decades of using the same layout the festival’s Black Rock City of Urban Planning is looking to apply the strategy to its city design.

"The existing plan has served the community very well, but by creating new city plans, we can create a new world every year," said the organisers in a statement.

The current city design has been in place since 1997 and has become something of an iconic symbol for the week-long festival.

The competition, which is now open for registration, is divided into two stages: the first will require entrants to submit a single page drawing, sketch or rendering of their design, along with a brief statement about its intent and ideas for further development.

The entries will be displayed online and subject to a public vote, after which the top 10 will advance to the next stage where entrants will be invited to develop detailed street level designs, with an emphasis on traffic flow, logistics, and safety considerations.

Speaking in February, Burning Man founder Larry Harvey said the arts festival has created “a new standard for public art” and the “re-invention” of 19th century arts patronage. This year it had a $30m budget and handed out $1.2m in grants to artists

Stage one entries will be accepted from October to 31 December 2015. The second stage of the competition will run from January to May 2016. However festival goers will have to wait until 2017 to see the designs realised.

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